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Becoming a tiger : how baby animals learn to live in the wild
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Becoming a tiger : how baby animals learn to live in the wild

Author: Susan McCarthy
Publisher: New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Contrary to common belief, not everything is "hardwired"--or instinctual--in the animal kingdom. Many skills a wild animal needs to thrive, to grow, to be what nature intended, must be developed through play, painstaking teaching, and often treacherous trial and error. The coming-of-age processes of the myriad creatures of plain, forest, ocean, and jungle are truly fascinating natural events. In this book, McCarthy  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan McCarthy
ISBN: 0066209242 9780066209241
OCLC Number: 53901364
Description: xi, 418 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: How to do or know something new : ways of learning --
Learn the basics : how to crawl, walk, climb, swim and fly --
Learning your species --
How to get your point across : being vocal, being verbal, and otherwise communication --
How to make a living --
How not to be eaten --
Invention, innovation, and tools : how to do something new, possibly with a stick --
How to get cultured --
Parenting and teaching : pass it on --
What learning tells us about intelligence.
Responsibility: Susan McCarthy.

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The author shares natural wildlife stories to offer insight into the biological survival and learning processes of young animals, from a bear's efforts to preserve territory for her cubs to a bat's  Read more...
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"BECOMING A TIGER takes a fascinating area of exploration ... and brings it to life in all its richness."--Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D., author of Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Read more...

 
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