Ebola
by David Quammen | 
The Tangled Tree
by David Quammen | 
The Song of the Dodo
by David Quammen | 
Spillover
by David Quammen | 
The Life of Mammals
by David Attenborough | 
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
by Caspar Henderson | 
The Trials of Life
by David Attenborough | 
Winter World
by Bernd Heinrich | 
Life in the Undergrowth
by David Attenborough |
A Gap in Nature
by Tim Flannery | 
Owls Aren't Wise & Bats Aren't Blind
by Warner Shedd |
King Solomon's Ring
by Konrad Lorenz | 
Eels
by James Prosek | 
The Red Hourglass
by Gordon Grice | 
Life on Earth
by David Attenborough | 
Dark Banquet
by Bill Schutt | 
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
by David Quammen | 
Life Everlasting
by Bernd Heinrich |
The Ghost with Trembling Wings
by Scott Weidensaul | 
The Code Book
by Simon Singh |
The author laments the decline of the big predators--animals that are capable of stalking and killing humans--wondering how our psyches will be affected when the last of these creatures is safely ensconced in a zoo.