Zoology category: 2375 books
by Sally Dinius
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Birds of the Pacific Northwest: How to Identify 25 of the Most Popular Backyard Birds will be your go-to guide when you need help identifying the birds at your feeders. Besides discovering more about your favorite birds, you'll learn about their habitats, how they nest, their sometimes-quirky behaviors,...
Avian Architecture
How Birds Design, Engineer, and Build
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Birds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature. Avian Architecture describes how birds design, engineer, and build their nests, deconstructing all types of nests found around the world using architectural blueprints and detailed descriptions...
by Bruce Thomson, Martyn Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Australia is a land of many unique animals, some of which are active only during the cooler evening and night-time and so are rarely seen. These are the after dark animals so widespread yet so little noticed by humans, whether in our backyards, the arid desert, woodlands or rainforest. Australian Wildlife...
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Discover the mysteries of the deep in DK findout! Sharks.
Travel back in time to see gigantic prehistoric sharks, learn how to identify different sharks, and find out which shark comes out on top in the Shark Olympics.
From bullhead to cow to carpet sharks, DK findout! Sharks explores...
Living in the Sound of the Wind
A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England. He never returned to Argentina.
Wilson unravels Hudson?s English...
Raptor
A Journey through Birds
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
From the merlin to the golden eagle, the goshawk to the honey buzzard, James Macdonald Lockhart’s stunning debut is a quest of beak, talon, wing, and sky. On its surface, Raptor is a journey across the British Isles in search of fifteen species of birds of prey, but as Lockhart seeks out these elusive...
Tooth and Nail
The Story of the Rabbit in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2010
Tooth and Nail is an indispensable history of how Europeans, through the introduction of a single species, changed Australia forever.
Tooth and Nail is a beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining history about human reactions to the rabbit. A survivor of drought, fire, flood, diseases,...
Free the Animals 20th Anniversary Edition
The Amazing True Story of the Animal Liberation Front in North America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
The shattering account of one woman's struggle against the forces supporting the abuse of animals, Free the Animals is the best-selling and action-packed story of underground adventure, as well as an eloquent plea for the rights of nonhuman animals. Free the Animals, with an introduction by Chrissie...
by Katherine Girlich
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2009
In 1922, philanthropist and president of the San Francisco Parks Commission, Herbert Fleishhacker, purchased a 60-acre site in southwestern San Francisco. Fleishhacker Pool was built in 1925 and an adjoining zoo added in 1929. Originally called Fleishhacker Zoo, it featured a variety of exotic wildlife....
As Far as the Eye Could Reach
Accounts of Animals along the Santa Fe Trail, 1821–1880
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail’s routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to these observers were the incredible numbers of...
by Jens Eriksen, Richard Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
With its unique blend of Western Palearctic, Oriental and Afrotropical components, and lying on a migratory crossroads, Oman is a jewel of the Middle East. This is the first comprehensive field guide to the birds of this fascinating and welcoming country.
All 528 species on the Oman Bird List...
by Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea sponges by the dolphins of Shark Bay, Australia, to protect their beaks while foraging for fish, we find clear examples of the...
Modeling of Living Systems
From Cell to Ecosystem
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Modeling is now one of the most efficient methodologies in life sciences. From practice to theory, this book develops this approach illustrated by many examples; general concepts and the current state of the art are also presented and discussed.
An historical and general introduction informs the reader...
Nordic-Iberian Cod Value Chains
Explaining salted fish trade patterns
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural, regional and economic factors affecting international food trade. Contributions from expert authors illuminate the importance of food culture prevailing in the market as a basis for decisions about food trading. Central concepts include value...