Zoology category: 2375 books
Project Puffin
The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Project Puffin is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had nested on nearby islands until extirpated by hunters in the...
The Walking Whales
From Land to Water in Eight Million Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled...
Marine Flatworms
The World of Polyclads
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2003
Marine Flatworms provides a fascinating introduction to the intriguing world of polyclad flatworms, a group of large, free-living marine Platyhelminthes, which are found throughout the world but are most colourful in tropical waters. Although not related to molluscs, they are often mistaken for sea slugs...
Giraffe
Biology, Behaviour and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
With its iconic appearance and historic popular appeal, the giraffe is the world's tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant. Recent years have seen much-needed new research undertaken to improve our understanding of this unique animal. Drawing together the latest research into one...
by T. S. Kemp
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that lived 200 million years ago, mammals evolved into the huge variety of different kinds of animals we see today. Many species are still small, and follow the lifestyle of the ancestor, but others have...
by Robin and the Honey Badger
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Robin and the Honey Badger’s mission is to recharge biology with originality for you, the non-specialist reader. Exploring the Bio-edge is a series of e-essays presenting lateral thoughts in search of ever more interesting stories from biology. In this e-essay: we show what it looks like when hips...
Poisonous Animals
A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This eBook is best viewed on a color device.
This Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press is an introduction to the major groups of poisonous animals in the world, including the most deadly species. Learn about:
-Dangerous stingers, fangs, and spines
-The many varieties of venom, and the...
The Gnu's World
Serengeti Wildebeest Ecology and Life History
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
This is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominates the savanna ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa. It presents a synthesis of research conducted over a span of fifty years, mainly on the wildebeest in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti ecosystems, where eighty percent of the world’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The annual Evolutionary Biology Meetings in Marseilles serve to gather leading evolutionary biologists and other scientists using evolutionary biology concepts, e.g. for medical research. The aims of these meetings are to promote the exchange of ideas and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This two-volume work provides an overview on various state of the art experimental and statistical methods, modeling approaches and software tools that are available to generate, integrate and analyze multi-omics datasets in order to detect biomarkers, genetic markers and potential causal genes for...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book assembles recent research on memory and learning in plants. Organisms that share a capability to store information about experiences in the past have an actively generated background resource on which they can compare and evaluate coming experiences in order to react faster or even better....
Taxidermy and Zoological Collecting
A Complete Handbook for the Amateur Taxidermist, Collector, Osteologist, Museum-Builder, Sportsman, and Traveller
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2019
The rapid and alarming destruction of all forms of wild animal life which is now going on furiously throughout the entire world, renders it imperatively necessary for those who would build up great zoological collections to be up and doing before any more of the leading species are exterminated. It...
White-Tailed Deer Habitat
Ecology and Management on Rangelands
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
The original, 2006 edition of Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.’s White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands was hailed as “a splendid reference for the classroom and those who make their living from wildlife and the land” and as “filling a niche that is...
by Kevin Van Tighem
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Wolves have become a complicated comeback story. Their tracks are once again making trails throughout western Alberta, southern British Columbia and the northwestern United States, and the lonesome howls of the legendary predator are no longer mere echoes from our frontier past: they are prophetic...