Zoology category: 2375 books
Man–Elephant Conflict
A Case Study from Forests in West Bengal, India
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
This book sheds new light on the causes and consequences of elephant migration in the Panchet Forest Division of Bankura District in West Bengal, India- an area characterized by fragmented forested landscape modified by agriculture and settlement expansion. Anthropogenic activities result in the...
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys
The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world’s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals with tail...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2009
Horseshoe crabs, those mysterious ancient mariners, lured me into the sea as a child along the beaches of New Jersey. Drawn to their shiny domed shells and spiked tails, I could not resist picking them up, turning them over and watching the wondrous mechanical movement of their glistening legs, articulating...
by Anthony Pridham, Joseph M Forshaw, Mark Shephard OAM
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
It is not surprising that Australian grassfinches are highly popular with ornithologists and aviculturists, for included among the species are one of the most beautiful of all birds – the Gouldian Finch Erythrura gouldiae – and one of the most familiar cagebirds – the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata....
Nature's Compass
The Mystery of Animal Navigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This most important book fully examines the welfare of captive reptiles and discusses the positive and negative implications of general husbandry and research programmes. The editors, acknowledged experts in their own right, have drawn together an extremely impressive international group of contributors...
Avian Ancestors
A Review of the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Theropods Unenlagiidae, Microraptoria, Anchiornis and Scansoriopterygidae
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Although consensus exists among researchers that birds evolved from coelurosaurian theropods, paleontologists still debate the identification of the group of coelurosaurians that most closely approaches the common ancestor of birds. The last 20 years witnessed the discovery of a wide array of avian-like...
Animal Vocal Communication
Assessment and Management Roles
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
How do animals communicate using sounds? How did animal vocal communication arise and evolve? Exploring a new way to conceptualize animal communication, this new edition moves beyond an earlier emphasis on the role of senders in managing receiver behaviour, to examine how receivers' responses influence...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Males and females often differ in developmental patterns, adult morphology, ecology and behaviour, and in many mammals males are often larger. Size dimorphism results in divergent nutritional and energetic requirements or reproductive strategies by the sexes, which in turn sometimes causes them to...
by P. Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Two aspects of animal life impressed me most during the journeys which I made in my youth in Eastern Siberia and Northern Manchuria. One of them was the extreme severity of the struggle for existence which most species of animals have to carry on against an inclement Nature; the enormous destruction...
The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality
Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This book develops and tests an ecological and evolutionary theory of the causes of human values—the core beliefs that guide people’s cognition and behavior—and their variation across time and space around the world. We call this theory the parasite-stress theory of values or the parasite-stress...
Reproduction in Mammals
The Female Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Newborn mammals can weigh as little as a dime or as much as a motorcycle. Some receive milk for only a few days, whereas others nurse for years. Humans typically have only one baby at a time following nine months of pregnancy, but other mammals have twenty or more young after only a few weeks in utero....
by Aleksandra A. Panyutina, Leonid P. Korzun, Alexander N. Kuznetsov
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
This book offers a new explanation for the development of flight in mammals and offers detailed morphological descriptions of mammals with flapping flight. The skeletomuscular apparatus of the shoulder girdle and forelimbs of tree shrews, flying lemurs and bats is described in detail. Special attention...
by Adam Miklosi
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
This is the first book to collate and synthesize the recent burgeoning primary research literature on dog behaviour, evolution, and cognition. The author presents a new ecological approach to the understanding of dog behaviour, demonstrating how dogs can be the subject of rigorous and productive scientific...