Zoology category: 2375 books
Yellow Animals On The Planet
Animal Encyclopedia for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Yes, yellow animals exit, and theyÕre absolutely beautiful! This picture book serves as a brilliant reminder of biodiversity. By introducing these yellow animals to your children, you are increasing their knowledge on zoology while raising their level of environmental awareness too! This book is filled...
The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
A 21st Century Bestiary
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
From medieval bestiaries to Borges’s Book of Imaginary Beings, we’ve long been enchanted by extraordinary animals, be they terrifying three-headed dogs or asps impervious to a snake charmer’s song. But bestiaries are more than just zany zoology—they are artful attempts to convey broader beliefs...
The Owl Who Liked Sitting on Caesar
Living with a Tawny Owl
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The story of an odd couple-a British military historian and the Tawny Owl with whom he lived for fifteen years
Martin Windrow was a war historian with little experience with pets when he adopted an owl the size of a corncob. Adorable but with knife-sharp talons, Mumble became Windrow's closest,...
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The Strange Saga of the Minnesota Iceman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME… THE TRUE STORY OF THE MINNESOTA ICEMAN!
The story begins at the end of 1968 in New Jersey, when zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans and biologist Ivan Sanderson first hear from a correspondent about the frozen corpse of an extremely hairy man-like creature being...
Zoobiquity
What Animals Can Teach Us About Health and the Science of Healing
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
In the spring of 2005, cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was called to consult on an unusual patient: an Emperor tamarin at the Los Angeles Zoo. While examining the tiny monkey’s sick heart, she learned that wild animals can die of a form of cardiac arrest brought on by extreme emotional stress....
by Douglas Botting
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This edition does not include illustrations. The authorised biography of the great naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged seventy in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he’d dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation....
by Brenda Nisbet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
1 Modern biologists describe protozoa as microscopic eukaryotic organ isms with a capacity for establishing themselves in almost every con ceivable habitat provided it contains moisture in some form. In 1674 at the time when Antony von Leeuwenhoek was making his first observations of 'very small...
DaVinci the Dog, the Reluctant Scientist #3: Why Do Animals Migrate?
A Lesson in Zoology
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
DaVinci is busy learning about science. When he gets curious, and it's usually about science, he asks his reluctant scientist friends. This time, it's about why animals migrate.
by Peter Simmons, David Young
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
An extensively revised third edition of this introduction to neuroethology - the neuronal basis of animal behaviour - for zoology, biology and psychology undergraduate students. The book focuses on the roles of individual nerve cells in behaviour, from simple startle responses to complex behaviours...
by Paul A. Rees
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This dictionary is intended as a guide to the terminology used in a wide range of animal-related programmes of study including agriculture, animal care, animal management, animal production, animal welfare, veterinary nursing, wildlife conservation and zoo biology. In total it contains over 5,300...
Field and Laboratory Methods in Primatology
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Building on the success of the first edition and bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, the second edition of this guide to research on wild primates covers the latest advances in the field, including new information on field experiments and measuring behaviour. It provides...
The Story of Rats
Their impact on us, and our impact on them
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
'Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud.'
An English Member of Parliament
Are rats still a threat to our health and food? Do they think? Is it true that wild rats sometimes die, unwounded, from social stress? Can studies...
Chimpanzees of the Lakeshore
Natural History and Culture at Mahale
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Chimpanzees are humanity's closest living relations and are of enduring interest to a range of sciences, from anthropology to zoology. In the West, many know of the pioneering work of Jane Goodall, whose studies of these apes at Gombe in Tanzania are justly famous. Less well-known, but equally important,...
Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 4
Ecdysozoa II: Crustacea
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This multi-author, six-volume work summarizes our current knowledge on the developmental biology of all major invertebrate animal phyla. The main aspects of cleavage, embryogenesis, organogenesis and gene expression are discussed in an evolutionary framework. Each chapter presents an in-depth yet...