Zoology category: 2375 books
Look at Me!
How to Attract Attention in the Animal World
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The latest offering from the award-winning team of Robin Page and Steve Jenkins focuses on the most unique and exciting animal displays in the natural world, used by creatures to stand out. This eye-catching, high-interest material is ideal for nature lovers, Jenkins fans, and even the most reluctant...
by Debra J. Housel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Explore the various types of ecosystems and biomes in this fascinating title that uses bright images, engaging charts and graphs, intriguing facts, and easy-to-read text to captivate readers from beginning to end! Readers will be enthralled as they learn about such ecosystems and biomes as the tundra,...
Bird Talk
What Birds Are Saying and Why
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A gorgeously illustrated tribute to birds of all kinds and the fantastic, funny, fascinating things that they do.
Birds have lots of ways of communicating: They sing and talk, dance and drum, cuddle and fight. But what does all of the bird talk mean?
Filled with gorgeous illustrations, this...
Cat Musculature
A Photographic Atlas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
This series of brilliant photographs shows the dissection of the cat musculature. It is designed for use in conjunction with the third edition of Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, edited by Marvalee Wake, although it can be used with other textbooks. Every possible step has been taken to make...
by Anon.
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
This vintage book contains a series of beautiful anatomical and physiological illustrations of the horse, cow, sheep, pig, and chicken, in full colour and coupled with explanatory notes. The models show in detail the exact location and appearance of all the muscles, bones, arteries, veins, and internal...
Nasty, Brutish, and Short
The Quirks and Quarks Guide to Animal Sex and Other Weird Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Birds do it, and bees do it, so do all animals, some of them in weird and wonderful ways. Quirks & Quarks' latest book explores the more bizarre behaviours of more than 100 creatures, from barnacles to Panda bears.
The tiny spider that has to tear off one of its two huge sex organs just to...
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly
A fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)**
On...
Nature's Nether Regions
What the Sex Lives of Bugs, Birds, and Beasts Tell Us About Evolution, Biodivers ity, and Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A tour of evolution’s most inventive—and essential—creations: animal genitalia
Forget opposable thumbs and canine teeth: the largest anatomical differences between humans and chimps are found below the belt. In Nature’s Nether Regions, ecologist and evolutionary biologist Menno Schilthuizen...
Does It Fart?
The Definitive Field Guide to Animal Flatulence
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From the scientist duo behind True or Poo?, their original New York Times bestselling sensation--a scientifically precise, fully illustrated, utterly hilarious guide to animal flatulence.
Dogs do it. Millipedes do it. Dinosaurs did it. You do it. I do it. Octopuses don't (and nor do octopi)....
Elephant Don
The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Meet Greg. He’s a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He’s been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friends—including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking Kevin starts to get ambitious, seeking a higher...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As an industry, biotechnology may be likened to the Hymn Book, being both ancient and modern. Whereas activities such as baking, brewing, the fermenting of foods date from our earliest attempts to control and utilise the environment, the application of recombinant DNA technology is recognised as being...
by Richard Platt
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
DK Readers: Spiders' Secrets is now available with read-along audio feature, paced so that a child can read along with the text according to their level of reading confidence. It is the ideal programme to enable parents to support their child's literacy at home. Compiled in close consultation with...
by Deborah Lock
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
March, build, swarm! Learn all about the wonderful world of ants and their complex colonies!
Packed with full-color photographs, lively illustrations, and engaging, age-appropriate stories to introduce young children to a life-long love of reading. These amazing stories are guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills. Perfect for reading together!
by DK
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
DK Readers: Snakes Slither and Hiss introduces young readers to some of the world's biggest, longest, and most dangerous snakes. Look out!
Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's...