Zoology category: 2375 books
by Andrew Solway
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In Secrets of Flight, you will find out how birds fly, how jet engines work, and why some planes fly so fast.
Rain Forest in Your Kitchen
The Hidden Connection Between Extinction And Your Supermarket
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The biodiversity crisis -- the extinction of thousands of species of plants and animals -- is not just a faraway problem for scientists to solve. Instead, the crisis is as close as our backyards, our gardens, and our refrigerator shelves. This engaging, practical guide inspires average Americans to...
by Sarah Blackford
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Career Planning for Research Bioscientists is an essential careers guide for bioscience doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers. It contains a wealth of information and resources specifically targeted at research bioscientists, with practical strategies to enhance career success in an increasingly...
Games Primates Play, International Edition
An Undercover Investigation of the Evolution and Economics of Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Most humans don't realize that when they exchange emails with someone, anyone, they are actually exhibiting certain unspoken rules about dominance and hierarchy. The same rules regulate the exchange of grooming behavior in rhesus macaques or chimpanzees. Interestingly, some of the major aspects of...
Big Cats in The Wild
A Visual Essay of Lions, Jaguars, Leopards, Pumas, and More
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Joe and Mary Ann McDonald have traveled the world for over thirty years, creating incredible images of breathtaking places and the incredible creatures that inhabit them. In this book, they have collected over two hundred of their favorite images of big cats from around the globe—from the majestic...
by Pat Neal
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
Pat writes about wildlife, all kinds of wildlife we face in our modern lives: environmental, political, economic, family relationships, medical. Wild Life covers a wide range of modern Americana in the 21st century. Wild Life is funny, true, and meaningful.
Lesser Beasts
A Snout-to-Tail History of the Humble Pig
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend-yet their flesh is banned in many...
Animal Personalities
Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they’ll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals—from invertebrates to monkeys and apes—behave in consistently different ways, meeting...
Transhumanism and Society
The Social Debate over Human Enhancement
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This book provides an introductory overview to the social debate over enhancement technologies with an overview of the transhumanists' call to bypass human nature and conservationists' argument in defense of it. The author present this controversy as it unfolds in the contest between transhumanists...
Race to Save the Tropics
Ecology And Economics For A Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Race to Save the Tropics documents the conflict between economic developmand protection of biological diversity in tropical countries.
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Wildlife tourism is a growing multimillion-dollar industry within the hospitality and tourism industry. Wildlife tourism, in its simplest sense, is the creation of tour packages for watching wild animals in their natural habitats, and is particularly important in African and South American...
Ant Encounters
Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
How do ant colonies get anything done, when no one is in charge? An ant colony operates without a central control or hierarchy, and no ant directs another. Instead, ants decide what to do based on the rate, rhythm, and pattern of individual encounters and interactions--resulting in a dynamic network...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Apes look and act far more like humans than other animals. Apes are super apes, just as apes are super monkeys. Portraits of the apes provide some glimpses into our closest cousins.
by Trevor J. C. Beebee
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Amphibians and reptiles is a comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professor Trevor Beebee covers the biology, ecology, conservation and identification of the British herpetofauna, and provides keys for the identification of adult...