Zoology category: 2375 books
What a Fish Knows
The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking...
The Bird
A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
• How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
• Why are birds so like mammals– and yet so very different?
• Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs?
• How do they court each other and fend off rivals?
• What' s being communicated in birdsong?
•...
Ten Million Aliens
A Journey Through the Entire Animal Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
“Funny, thoughtful, informative, and wise” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), this scientific foray into the animal kingdom examines how the world’s creatures—weird, wonderful, and everything in between—are inextricably linked.
Life on planet earth is not weirder than we imagine....
Animals Make Us Human
Creating the Best Life for Animals
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
How can we give animals the best life—for them? What does an animal need to be happy?
In her groundbreaking, best-selling book Animals in Translation, Temple Grandin drew on her own experience with autism as well as her experience as an animal scientist to deliver extraordinary insights into...
Chasing Doctor Dolittle
Learning the Language of Animals
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
"Slobodchikoff's ground-breaking research" (Jonathan Balcombe) shows us that animals have much to teach us about language
Groundbreaking research has been done teaching animals human language, but what about the other way around? Studies have shown that lizards, squid, monkeys, and...
Observing Animal Behaviour
Design and analysis of quantitative data
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This book introduces the reader to the power of observation before, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behaviour. It starts with simple and easily accessible methods suitable for student projects, before going on to demonstrate the possibilities that now exist...
by W. H. Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
"The Forest, the Jungle and the Prairie" is a collection of anecdotes and essays relating to the author's extensive and varied hunting experiences. With chapters on everything from the habits and habitats of the bear to hunting tigers, this profusely-illustrated and highly-readable handbook...
Barn Owl Conservation Handbook
A comprehensive guide for ecologists, surveyors, land managers and ornithologists
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
A comprehensive handbook covering all aspects of the conservation of Barn Owls. Written by the Barn Owl Trust, this book includes in-depth information on Barn Owl survey techniques, relevant ecology, Barn Owls and the law, mortality, habitat management, use of nest boxes and barn Owl rehabilitation. Essential reading for ecologists, planners, land managers and ornithologists.
Bird Conservation
Evidence for the effects of interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of wild birds. The authors worked with an international group of bird experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit wild birds. For each intervention, the book...
by W.M. Hartmann, F. Dunn, D.M. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Acoustics, the science of sound, has developed into a broad interdisciplinary field encompassing the academic disciplines of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, audiology, music, architecture, physiology, neuroscience and others. Here is an unparalleled modern handbook reflecting this richly...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Since it first became known to European scientists and naturalists in 1798, the platypus has been the subject of controversy, interest and absolute wonder. Found only in Australia, the platypus is a mammal that lays eggs but, like other mammals, it has fur and suckles its young on milk. Many early biologists...
The Curse of the Labrador Duck
My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
In an obsessive 82,000-mile quest for dead birds, how much trouble can one scientist get into?
Finally, the world's leading authority on the extinct Labrador Duck, Dr. Glen Chilton, shares the story of his frenzied obsession to reveal the histories behind the mysterious bird -- a saga wherein...
by R. Thiagarajan
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
This book is very much useful for the second year students of B.V.Sc. course who are studying in veterinary colleges all over India. Veterinary Council of India recently changed the syllabus for the veterinary undergraduate students so as to make uniform veterinary curriculum. In this circumstances,...
World without weight:Perspectives on an alien mind
Perspectives on an alien mind
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
In every domain of reasoning-from time and space, to mental states and physical illness-humans deploy an exceedingly diverse range of intuitive 'theories' about how the world works. Children from diverse cultures always seem to arrive at a few, common folk theories as they hone their developing brains...