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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
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Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
One of the world's most celebrated animal scientists merges a lifetime of study with her extraordinary perceptions as an autistic person in a groundbreaking book that revolutionizes the understanding of how animals think and feel.
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Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology
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Professor George A Feldhamer, Lee C Drickamer, Stephen H Vessey
The Class Mammalia is amazingly diverse, ranging from whales to marsupials to bats to primates. The more than 5,400 species occupy many habitats, with mammals present on all the continents. They are rare only on Antarctica and a few isolated islands. "Mammals" present a complex set of conservation and management issues. Some species have become ...
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PH.D.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, whose books take up the cause of animals as sentient beings, now explores the world of farm animals, making a case for their humane treatment and an end to exploitation.
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A field guide to animal tracks
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Olaus Johan Murie
This all-new edition includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mammals of North America, as well as of selected birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. More than 1,000 line drawings and 100 color photographs further enhance the text.
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Laboratory Exercises in Anatomy and Physiology with Cat Dissections
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Robert Amitrano, Gerard J Tortora
This traditional lab manual for the A&P course examines every structure and function of the human body. In addition to a large variety of illustrations, the manual features dissection of the white rat, numerous physiological experiments, an emphasis on the study of anatomy through histology, lists of appropriate terms accompanying art, numerous ...
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Mammalogy
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Terry A. Vaughan
The biology of mammals is viewed from a broad range of perspectives, making it useful to instructors with contrasting approaches to the subject. Based on the extensive studies of researchers, this book covers topics which were chosen as the most important, interesting, and essnetial to the understanding of mammals.
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Endocrinology
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Mac E Hadley
Appropriate for one-semester junior-graduate level courses in Endocrinology, Endocrine Physiology, as well as courses in medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, nutrition, nursing and other related medical or animal sciences where endocrinology is the focus. Hadley provides comprehensive coverage of endocrinology, centralizing on the critical roles of ...
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Foundations of Embryology
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Bradley M Patten
Designed for junior, senior and graduate courses in embryology, developmental biology and medical embryology, this book presents the story of vertebrate embryonic development. A chapter on fertilization, featuring a comparison of classical invertebrate systems, includes new data on mammalian fertilization. This edition indicates where contemporary ...
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Dog Behaviour, Evolution, and Cognition
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Adam Miklosi
This is the first book to collate and synthesise 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 study without the need to confine them to ...
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Rain Forest Babies
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Kathy Darling
An introduction to the animals that live in tropical rain forests. Readers will meet such creatures as a 300-pound baby elephant, a tiny marmoset, and newborn poisonous frogs. Illustrated with color photographs.
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The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa
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Caitlin O'Connell
While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior in which the matriarch lifted her foot and scanned the horizon, causing the other elephants to follow suit, as if they could 'hear' the ground. "The Elephant's Secret Sense" is O'Connell's account of her path-breaking research into seismic ...
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Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
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L David Mech (Editor), Luigi Boitani (Editor)
Discussing all types of wolf in great detail, and with extensive illustrations, this work is an essential guide to wolf ecology, behaviour, physiology and pathology. Thanks to legal protection, wolves are gathering in number, and this work celebrates this feat of conservation.
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On the track of unknown animals
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Bernard Heuvelmans
Bernard Heuvelmans is the founder of "cryptozoology" - the science of hidden animals. Whereas palaeontology discovers and describes organisms of the past, cryptozoology does the same with animals of the present. At a time when many known species have become extinct or endangered, it is exciting and affirmative to discover previously unknown ...
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Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition
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Robbins
For years, biologists assumed that the nutritional knowledge gained from domestic animals could be applied directly to wild animals. During the past ten years, however, it has become increasingly clear that domestic animals and wild animals differ in their nutritional requirements. Nutritional management that is beneficial to domestic animals may ...
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Wild Animals
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Deni Bown
Simple text and photographs with tactile patches introduce such wild animals as the lion, lizard, and dolphin.
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The living wilderness
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Rutherford George Montgomery
Wildlife stories by Rutherford Montgomery have delighted generations of readers from eight to eighty. Many of his titles are regarded as classics and have received numerous awards. In The Living Wilderness, Montgomery details his personal acquaintanceship with wild animals in their native habitat, with detailed description of their manner of life, ...
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Laboratory Exercises in Anatomy and Physiology with Cat Dissections
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Gerard J Tortora
This manual meets the needs of undergraduate and pre-professional students enrolled in either a one- or two-semester (or quarter) Human Anatomy and Physiology course that includes cat dissections as part of the laboratory experience.This top-selling laboratory manual follows a body-systems approach and is compatible with any introductory anatomy ...
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Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity and Ecology
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Professor George A Feldhamer
Balancing breadth and depth of coverage, this text is tailored to a one-semester mammalogy course appropriate for upper level undergraduates and graduate students with a basic background in vertebrate biology.
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Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate Like Mammals
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Christine M Janis (Editor), Kathleen M Scott (Editor), Louis L Jacobs (Editor)
This book is a unique compendium and synthesis of the cumulative knowledge of more than 100 years of discovery and study of North American tertiary mammals. The potentially most valuable contribution of this book is the detailed information of the distribution in time and space of each species at fossil localities, recorded in a uniform scheme, so ...
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Mammals of Indiana
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Russell E Mumford, John O Whitaker, Jr. (Photographer)
This highly anticipated new edition of "Mammals of Indiana" by John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Russell E. Mumford, first published by Indiana University in 1982, places strong emphasis on ecology with descriptions of Indiana's habitats, climate, and vegetation and detailed species accounts. The well-illustrated book will be a boon to most residents of ...
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Bats of the Rocky Mountain West
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Rick A Adams, Wendy Smith (Illustrator)
Since antiquity, bats have been misunderstood and shrouded in mystery. Given misnomers such as fledermaus (flying mouse) and murciegalo (blind mouse), these nocturnal flying mammals were even classified as primates by the great Carl Linnaeus, based on his knowledge of the anatomy of large Old World fruit bats. In this beautifully illustrated ...
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Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores
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Robert A Long (Editor), Paula MacKay (Editor), William J Zielinski (Editor)
Presented in a straightforward and readable style, "Noninvasive Survey Methods for Carnivores" is a comprehensive guide for wildlife researchers who seek to conduct carnivore surveys using the most up-to-date scientific approaches. Twenty-five experts from across North America discuss strategies for implementing surveys across a broad range of ...
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The Mammals of Trans-Pecos Texas: Including Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe Mountains National Park
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David J Schmidly
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The Science of Overabundance: Deer Ecology and Population Management
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Dr. William J McShea, H Brian Underwood, Dr. John H Rappole
Easily the most common of America's large wildlife species, white-tailed deer are often referred to as overabundant. But when does a species cross the threshold from common to overpopulated? William McShea and his colleagues explore every aspect of the issue in "The Science of Overabundance", dismissing widely held lore, and provide solid ...
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A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials
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Christopher Dickman, Rosemary Woodford Ganf (Illustrator), Tim Flannery (Foreword by)
Marsupials are nearly synonymous with Australia. Although one of these enigmatic pouched mammals - the opossum - inhabits the United States and another 80 or so thrive in South America, some 220 species are confined to the Australasian region. In Australia, marsupials are the most diverse and dominant indigenous species, from the wallaby and the ...
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