Nature & the Environment
Fantastic Creatures

Fantastic Creatures

Weird and wonderful tales from zoology

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Nature & the Environment
Reconnect with your favorite furry—or scaly—friends from the animal world with this selection of our wildest Blinks. They’ll take you on a journey around the globe to showcase some of the most recent and mind-boggling discoveries to come out of zoology. Some of these insights might event have you re-evaluating everything you thought you knew about consciousness, intelligence, and the nature of life itself!

Fantastic Creatures

Weird and wonderful tales from zoology

Other Minds
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith
The Octopus And The Evolution Of Intelligent Life
15 min4.1
Cod
Cod
Mark Kurlansky
A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
14 min4.2
The Soul of an Octopus
The Soul of an Octopus
Sy Montgomery
A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
4.3
The Bird Way
The Bird Way
Jennifer Ackerman
A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think
22 min4.3
Fox
Fox
Martin Wallen
The Cultural History of this Mystical Animal
10 min4.2
The Book of Eels
The Book of Eels
Patrik Svensson
Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
22 min4.6
Cat
Cat
Katharine M. Rogers
How humanity fell in love with our feline companions
11 min4.1
The Genius of Dogs
The Genius of Dogs
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Discovering the Unique Intelligence of Man’s Best Friend
19 min4.2
Underbug
Underbug
Lisa Margonelli
An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
23 min4.6

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