Zoology category: 2375 books
by Sally Carrighar
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
To Beetle Rock, in the High Sierra, the city folk come in summer to camp, to rest, and to look at the magnificent sky over their heads and the broad sweep of the valley 6,500 feet below them. But they see little of the life that lies about them in the bush and tress—the life, by turns tense, dramatic,...
Bones, Clones, and Biomes
The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet’s mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attributed partly to the striking diversity of Neotropical...
Parasite Diversity and Diversification
Evolutionary Ecology Meets Phylogenetics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The development of molecular tools has dramatically increased our knowledge of parasite diversity and the vectors that transmit them. From viruses and protists to arthropods and helminths, each branch of the Tree of Life offers an insight into significant, yet cryptic, biodiversity. Alongside this,...
Wildlife Resources
A Global Account of Economic Use
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The general interest and attention paid to the use of the renewable natural resources of the world have increased greatly during the last decades. This is due to the environmental dilemma into which mankind has got itself by the total disregard of ecological facts and laws, the underprizing of natural...
Amphibian Biology, Volume 11, Part 4
Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Eastern Hemisphere: Southern Europe & Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Amphibian species around the world are unusually vulnerable to a variety of threats, by no means all of which are properly understood. Volume 11 in this major series is published in parts devoted to the causes of amphibian decline and to conservation measures in regions of the world. This volume,...
by Gary Clark, Kathy Adams Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Drawing on the knowledge and insight gained from a lifetime of watching, studying, and enjoying birds, this book is full of information about more than four hundred species of birds in Texas, most all of which author Gary Clark has seen first hand. Organized in the standard taxonomic order familiar...
by Susan J. Crockford
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This beautiful, full color summary explains in simple terms why polar bears are thriving despite the recent loss of Arctic sea ice. It’s written in a question and answer format, in language that readers of all ages can understand (age 7 and up). The book takes a sensible, big-picture approach that...
Animal Behavior
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Why do birds have regional accents? Can horses learn math? What do animals without eyes see? Questions such as these have fascinated scientists and animal lovers alike long before ethology - the study of animal behavior - became recognized as a science in the 1970s. Now, as issues of conservation and...
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Marine Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The selections in this section include whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals is a beautifully illustrated, up-to-date guide to all 215 known species of mammals in Canada. It features brand-new, full-colour images of each species, as well as stunning photographs...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
Pathology of Australian Native Wildlife brings together in one volume available information on the pathology of Australian native vertebrate wildlife, excluding fish. It provides rapid access to documented information on diseases in Australian wildlife, domiciled either in Australia or overseas. The...
The Red Kangaroo in Central Australia
An Early Account by A. E. Newsome
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The red kangaroo is at the heart of Australia’s ecological identity. It is Australia’s largest terrestrial land mammal, the largest extant marsupial, and the only kangaroo truly restricted to Australia’s arid interior. Almost nothing was known about the ecology of the red kangaroo when Alan Newsome...
Camera Trapping
Wildlife Management and Research
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Camera trapping in wildlife management and research is a growing global phenomenon. The technology is advancing very quickly, providing unique opportunities for collecting new biological knowledge. In order for fellow camera trap researchers and managers to share their knowledge and experience, the...
by Brooke Barker
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
No one ever said it was easy being young, and it’s especially true if you’re a little creature out in the jungles, forests, deserts, and oceans of the big, bad world. Following on the success of her Instagram feed and first book, Sad Animal Facts, Brooke Barker continues her examination of the...
by Jean-Pierre-Louis-Laurent Houel, Ligaran
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Extrait : "Jaloux de ne rien dire que de vrai sur les éléphants dont j'entreprends l'histoire, je me bornerai d'abord à ne publier que ce que j'ai vu et observé moi-même, avec toute l'attention dont j'étais capable, à l'égard des deux éléphants que la conquête de la Hollande nous a procurés."