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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Refuting the idea that breaking an animal's spirit is the best way to subdue it, Richardson shows these animals to be complex creatures capable of human-like bonds. Here, Richardson delves into the minds of the big cats to show how he had become a part of the pride.
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.
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 ...
A pot-pourri of animal anecdotes, based on hectic days at the author's Jersey zoo and his forays to various corners of the earth to rescue animal species in danger of extinction. First published in 1972.
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 ...
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 ...
Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and California to Tennessee, and on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behaviour, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, ...
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