critter books

There's a bunch of books on specific critters out there - their natural history, economic usages throughout history, populations, conservation, yada yada yada.

What critter books have you read and enjoyed? Found interesting? Particularly relate to?

I'll throw a couple out there.

I just finished A Fish caught in time about the discovery of the coelacanth, a fish initially thought to be extinct until it was found off southern Africa in the 1930s and more recently found in Indonesia (late 1990s). It was a well written and engaging book, a quick read, and a pretty interesting look at this fish and the people who have and are searching for it and devoted to its conservation.

Other books on my TBR pile:
cod: a biography
the founding fish
beautiful swimmers
secret life of lobsters
striper wars

anyone else have any others they'd like to share?

Urban Carnivores: Ecology, Conflict, and Conservation - this is the first book to address this topic, according to the U.S. National Park Service.

More and more humans are living in wildland interface areas, so this is a topic where information is needed.

Compost Critters was interesting, if icky. I learned that smaller critters like mites and snails regularly cadge rides on the carapaces of larger insects, much like catching a bus, to get to the other side of the pile quicker than walking it themselves.