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Cattle Plague
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cattle Plague: A History is divided into five sections, dealing with the nature of the virus, followed by a chronological history of its occurrence in Europe from the Roman Empire to the final 20th century outbreaks; then administrative control measures through legislation, the principal players from...
History of Physiology
Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Budapest, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Advances in Physiological Sciences, Volume 21: History of Physiology covers the proceedings of the symposia of the 28th Congress of Physiology. Comprised of nine chapters, the book reviews the history of physiological studies.
The first chapter discusses the beginnings of the quantitative thinking...
by Ted Benton
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In Britain and Ireland there are about ten times more species of solitary bee than bumblebee and honeybee combined, yet the solitary bees tend to be ignored and we know much less about them. They are a fascinating, attractive and diverse group that can be found easily in a wide range of habitats,...
by David Fairchild, Marian Hubbard Fairchild
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The pictures in this book are portraits of creatures which are as much the real inhabitants of the world as we are, and have all the rights of ownership that we have, but, because their own struggle for existence so often crosses ours, many of them are our enemies. Indeed, man’s own real struggle...
Spider Behaviour
Flexibility and Versatility
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Spiders are often underestimated as suitable behavioural models because of the general belief that due to their small brains their behaviour is innate and mostly invariable. Challenging this assumption, this fascinating book shows that rather than having a limited behavioural repertoire, spiders show...
Oiseaux
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
On connaît plus de 9 800 espèces d'oiseaux vivants. Les spécialistes ne sont pas d'accord sur la classification des oiseaux les plus évolués, les passereaux. En effet, en raison du très petit nombre de fossiles et des grandes ressemblances entre espèces, on n'est pas encore parvenu à établir un ...
Mammifères
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Dans l'état actuel des connaissances, définir scientifiquement ces vertébrés que l'on nomme couramment mammifères est une véritable gageure que nous ne nous proposons pas de tenir. Il semble pourtant, a priori, parfaitement possible, voire facile, de trouver des caractères généraux et communs à...
Dispersing Primate Females
Life History and Social Strategies in Male-Philopatric Species
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Why do females in male-philopatric species seem to show larger variation in their life history strategies than males in female-philopatric species? Why did females in human societies come to show enormous variation in the patterns of marriage, residence and mating activities?
To tackle these...
Secrets of the Snake Charmer
Snakes in the 21St Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Note that there is a companion website for this book and it can be seen at: http://secretsofthesnakecharmer.blogspot.com/ Humans and snakes have an intimate and ancient relationship that often revolves around either love or hate. Snakes can be seen as gods, spiritual messengers, symbols of fertility,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Some primate field studies have been on-going for decades, covering significant portions of individual life cycles or even multiple generations. In this volume, leading field workers report on the history and infrastructure of their projects in Madagascar, Africa, Asia and South America. More importantly,...
Seed Dispersal by Ants in a Deciduous Forest Ecosystem
Mechanisms, Strategies, Adaptations
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Countless ants transport and deposit seeds and thereby influence the survival, death, and evolution of many plant species. In higher plants, seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) has appeared many times independently in different lineages. More than 3000 plant species are known to utilize ant assistance...
Herons, Egrets and Bitterns
Their Biology and Conservation in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2005
This is the first book to deal exclusively with the Australian members of the Family Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns). It gives a comprehensive, easy-to-read account of their origins, classification and biology, and explains the features that distinguish them from other birds. The book devotes...
Australian Birds of Prey in Flight
A Photographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Birds of prey spend most of their time in flight and, when viewed from the ground, they are notoriously hard to identify. Australian Birds of Prey in Flight is a photographic guide to the eagles, hawks, kites and falcons flying high above you. Individual species profiles describe distinguishing features...