Zoology category: 2375 books

This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget, however, that physical laws are equally important, for they determine rates of diffusion and heat transfer,...

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology. His work in comparative embryology is best known...

Paul Shepard is one of the mprofound and original thinkers of our time. He has helped define the field of human ecology, and has played a vital role in the developmof what have come to be known as environmental philosophy, ecophilosophy, and deep ecology -- new ways of thinking about human-environminteractions...

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 feature the second author’s namesake...

This vintage book contains a complete guide to taxidermy, with instructions for trapping, tanning, fleshing, mounting, and all other related aspects. Complete with detailed diagrams and a wealth of useful tips, this classic handbook is highly recommended for the beginner, and would make for a fantastic...

In this engaging introduction to the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), J. David Henry recounts his years of field research on this flame-colored predator. With its catlike whiskers, teeth, and paws, as well as vertical-slit pupils, the North American red fox not only resembles but often behaves like a feline,...

Jusqu'à la fin du XIXe siècle, l'accord était général pour considérer les Poissons comme une vaste classe de Vertébrés au même titre et sur le même plan que les Amphibiens, les Reptiles, les Oiseaux et les Mammifères. Mais, depuis que les progrès de la paléontologie ont montré le ...

Partez à la découverte des cétacés avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! L'adaptation des cétacés à la vie aquatique est d'une telle perfection qu'il a fallu attendre la dixième édition du Systema naturae de Linné (1758) pour les voir définitivement classés parmi les Mammifères....

Extrait : "On ne doit s'attendre à trouver dans les plus riches collections ornithologiques et entomologiques, à plus forte raison dans les quelques pages qui vont suivre, qu'un faible aperçu du monde de l'air : monde infini comme celui de la mer, et qui, pour arriver à l'insecte et à l'oiseau,...

Pour le biologiste, une population animale ou végétale est formée par définition d'individus susceptibles de se reproduire entre eux. Celle-ci subit, au cours du temps, des changements incessants liés à la disparition (mortalité, émigration) et à l'apparition de nouveaux sujets (reproduction, ...

This bilingual collection of essays (in English and French) looks at entomology and representations of insects from a scientific, historical, philosophical, literary and artistic viewpoint. The contributions illustrate the various responses to the insect world that have developed over centuries, concentrating...

The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world. Ecology of North American Freshwater Fishes is the only textbook to provide advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date and integrated view...

Organised into four sections, this text discusses the organisation of the living world. Links Ecology, Biodiversity and Biogeography Bridges modern and conventional Ecology Builds sequentially from the concept and importance of species, through patterns of diversity to help consider global patterns of biogeography Uses real data sets to help train in essential skills

Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species great and...