Zoology category: 2375 books
Monkeys on the Edge
Ecology and Management of Long-Tailed Macaques and their Interface with Humans
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) have a wide geographical distribution and extensively overlap with human societies across southeast Asia, regularly utilizing the edges of secondary forest and inhabiting numerous anthropogenic environments, including temple grounds, cities and farmlands....
by Shizhong Xu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Statistical genomics is a rapidly developing field, with more and more people involved in this area. However, a lack of synthetic reference books and textbooks in statistical genomics has become a major hurdle on the development of the field. Although many books have been published recently in bioinformatics,...
Animal Minds
Beyond Cognition to Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
In Animal Minds, Donald R. Griffin takes us on a guided tour of the recent explosion of scientific research on animal mentality. Are animals consciously aware of anything, or are they merely living machines, incapable of conscious thoughts or emotional feelings? How can we tell? Such questions have...
Monkeytalk
Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Monkey see, monkey do—or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates—their sociality, their intelligence, their communication—really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer reveals, the human bias inherent in this oft-uttered...
How We Do It
The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Despite our seemingly endless fascination with sex and parenting, the origins of our reproductive lives remain a mystery. Why are a quarter of a billion sperm cells needed to fertilize one egg? Are women really fertile for only a few days each month? How long should women breast-feed? In How We Do...
by Anne Innis Dagg
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Research into social behaviour in animals has often focused on aggression, yet members of social species are far more likely to interact with each other in a positive way. Animal Friendships explores non-sexual bonding behaviours in a range of mammalian and avian species. Through analysis of factors...
Beastly Questions
Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Zooarchaeology, or the study of ancient animals, is a frequently side-lined subject in archaeology. This is bizarre given that the archaeological record is composed largely of debris from human–animal relationships (be they in the form of animal bones, individual artifacts or entire landscapes)...
Economic Zooarchaeology
Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Economic archaeology is the study of how past peoples exploited animals and plants, using as evidence the remains of those animals and plants. The animal side is usually termed zooarchaeology, the plant side archaeobotany. What distinguishes them from other studies of ancient animals and plants is...
Primate Locomotion
Linking Field and Laboratory Research
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011
Primate locomotion has typically been studied from two points of view. Laboratory-based researchers have focused on aspects like biomechanics and energetics, whereas field-based researchers have focused on (locomotor) behaviour and ecology. Unfortunately, to date, there is relatively little scientific...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Coordination in Human and Primate Groups presents one of the first collections of the different approaches and methods used to assess coordination processes in groups. Written by psychologists and primatologists, the book represents a broad range of coordination research fields such as social psychology,...
The Mandrill
A Case of Extreme Sexual Selection
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Living in the remote forests of western central Africa, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is notoriously elusive and has evaded scientific scrutiny for decades. Yet, it is the largest and most sexually dimorphic of all the Old World monkeys, and perhaps the most colourful of all the mammals. Synthesising...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume had its origin in a symposium on the Reproduction and Development of Cartilaginous Fishes that was held at the annual meetings of the American Elasmobranch Society and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in Charleston, South Carolina in 1990. The cartilaginous fishes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Studies of the evolution of animal signals and sensory behaviour have more recently shifted from considering 'extrinsic' (environmental) determinants to 'intrinsic' (physiological) ones. The drive behind this change has been the increasing availability of neural network models. With contributions...
Living in a Seasonal World
Thermoregulatory and Metabolic Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Topics include animal hibernation, daily torpor, thermoregulation, heat production, metabolic depression, biochemical adaptations, neurophysiology and energy balance. The contributors to this book present interdisciplinary...