Zoology

By Blainville D.H.M.

By Jonathan Balcombe

ISBN-10: 0374288216

ISBN-13: 9780374288211

A New York Times Bestseller

Do fishes imagine? Do they truly have three-second thoughts? and will they realize the people who peer again at them from above the outside of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses those questions and extra, taking us lower than the ocean, via streams and estuaries, and to the opposite aspect of the aquarium glass to bare the miraculous services of fishes. even though there are greater than thirty thousand species of fish―more than all mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined―we hardly ever ponder how person fishes imagine, think, and behave. Balcombe upends our assumptions approximately fishes, portraying them now not as unfeeling, dead-eyed feeding machines yet as sentient, conscious, social, or even Machiavellian―in different phrases, very like us.
What a Fish Knows attracts at the most modern technological know-how to give a clean examine those extraordinary creatures in all their breathtaking range and wonder. Fishes behavior tricky courtship rituals and enhance lifelong bonds with shoalmates. in addition they plan, hunt cooperatively, use instruments, curry want, lie to each other, and punish wrongdoers. We could think that fishes lead basic, fleeting lives―a mode of life that boils right down to a spot at the foodstuff chain, rote spawning, and many aimless swimming. yet, as Balcombe demonstrates, if truth be told a ways richer and extra advanced, important of the grandest social novel.
Highlighting leap forward discoveries from fish fans and scientists worldwide and puzzling over his personal encounters with fishes, Balcombe examines the interesting ability in which fishes be taught the locations they inhabit, from shallow tide swimming pools to the private reaches of the ocean.
Teeming with insights and fascinating discoveries, What a Fish Knows deals a considerate appraisal of our relations with fishes and conjures up us to take a extra enlightened view of the planet’s more and more imperiled marine lifestyles. What a Fish Knows will eternally swap how we see our aquatic cousins―the puppy goldfish included.

By Christopher Perrins

ISBN-10: 0292755325

ISBN-13: 9780292755321

Книга состоит из двух частей. Первая часть содержит следующую информацию: около 1500 цветных рисунков птиц различного возраста и пола, карты сезонного распространения птиц, которые размножаются либо регулярно встречаются в Европе, сведения по внешнему облику, местообитаниям, гнездам, яйцам, периоду развития и питанию для каждого из 429 видов. Вторая часть книги рассказывает, каково быть птицей. Она характеризует преимущества и недостатки различных методов добывания пищи, размножения, миграций и других адаптаций. Книга объясняет, что делает птица, когда мы ее видим, а также скрытые причины, почему она делает это.
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By Charles R. Heflin

By Jonathan Peter Balcombe

ISBN-10: 0520260244

ISBN-13: 9780520260245

Nature documentaries frequently depict animal existence as a grim fight for survival, yet this visually attractive e-book opens our eyes to another, extra scientifically up to date manner of taking a look at the animal state. in additional than a hundred thirty remarkable photographs, The Exultant Ark celebrates the entire variety of animal event with dramatic photos of animal excitement starting from the charismatic and established to the vague and weird. those pictures, home windows onto the interior lives of enjoyment seekers, express polar bears engaged in a bout of wrestling, hoary marmots taking time for a pleasant chase, jap macaques having fun with a soak in a sizzling spring, a tender bull elk protruding his tongue to capture snowflakes, and lots of different profitable moments. Biologist and best-selling writer Jonathan Balcombe is our advisor, reading the photographs in the medical context of what's identified approximately animal habit. finally, previous attitudes fall away as we achieve a heightened feel of animal individuality and of the pleasures that make existence worthy residing for all sentient beings.

By Edward O. Wilson

ISBN-10: 0674816234

ISBN-13: 9780674816237

ISBN-10: 0674816242

ISBN-13: 9780674816244

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By Gretchen Daily, John Peterson Myers, Joshua Reichert, Sandra Postel, Kamaljit Bawa, Les Kaufman, Charles H. Peterson, Stephen Carpenter, David Tillman, Paul Dayton, Susan Alexander, Kalen Lagerquist, Larry Goulder, Pamela A. Matson, Harold A. Mooney, Ros

ISBN-10: 1559634758

ISBN-13: 9781559634755

ISBN-10: 1559634766

ISBN-13: 9781559634762

Nature's companies brings jointly world-renowned scientists from quite a few disciplines to check the nature and price of atmosphere companies, the wear that has been performed to them, and the resultant implications for human society. individuals current an in depth synthesis of our present figuring out of a set of surroundings prone and a initial review in their monetary worth. Nature's prone represents one of many first efforts by way of scientists to supply an outline of the numerous merits and prone that nature bargains to humans and the level to which we're all vitally depending on these providers. The ebook complements our figuring out of the worth of the common platforms that encompass us and will play a vital function in encouraging larger efforts to guard the earth's easy life-support structures sooner than it really is too overdue.

By Jean Anker (auth.)

ISBN-10: 9401179832

ISBN-13: 9789401179836

ISBN-10: 9401179859

ISBN-13: 9789401179850

By International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, Colin Gordon Maggs, International Union of Biological Sciences

ISBN-10: 0853010064

ISBN-13: 9780853010067

This can be an instance product description.

By James A. Peters, Braulio Orejas-Miranda, Roberto Donoso-Barros

Pp. (6), 347, 25, (v-viii), 293; a hundred+ text-figures (line-drawings). unique eco-friendly stiff wrappers, lettered in white at the backbone and entrance hide, quarto. half I provides the snakes and half II covers Lizards and Amphisbaenians. it is a revised variation of the unique half set issued in 1970 as usa nationwide Museum Bulletin, no. 297. New fabric has been extra to either components by way of P. E. Vanzolini. precise keys are supplied to all species. No possession marks and no indicators of use.