Shelf-life: books abounding part 6

Dinos didn't read natural history - now they are extinct! ;)

I probably read more natural history than anything else; these are the newest titles that have been added to those overflowing shelves!

My husband is transforming himself into a master birder (to compliment his interests in crayfish, game fish, snakes, frogs, and salamanders) so I  have been accompanying him on bird walks. I'm not very good at recognizing most of their calls - but I hear so much more now that he's taught me to listen for them. I hope this book - which analyzes what all of those different calls mean - will allow me to focus in even more.

The idea of Victorian intellectuals fighting over bones makes me laugh -- shouldn't these mad rivalries be made into a television series? The beards alone would sell it!

I think motherhood gets short shrift as a topic of interest. As someone who is looking forward to being a mother myself one day, I thought I would check out how the rest of the animal kingdom does it! I already know that wolf spiders are devoted caretakers and that some giant snakes look over their nestlings for the first few weeks (most snakes hatch and are on their own immediately) and I can't wait to find out more!