Wild Heritage
KSh300.00
A book on animal behaviour in relation to human behavior. This could not have been written a few years ago. As stated ‘ Only recently have we acquired the knowledge and techniques to make systematic, scientific studies of how animlas act, not in the laboratory but in the wild.
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