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Natural History of Bumblebees: A Sourcebook for Investigations
Can insects be charming? Even people who generally dislike "bugs" make exceptions for bumblebees. Their bright colors and intriguing behaviors can engage the curiosity of anyone from schoolchildren to accomplished scientists. And because one can …
Shorebirds: Beautiful Beachcombers
A wonderfully illustrated introduction to identifying North American shorebirds: sandpipers, plovers, oystercatchers, turnstones, and dowitchers
New scientific approaches have dramatically evolved in the decade since The Physiology of Fishes was first published. With the genomic revolution and a heightened understanding of molecular biology, we now have the tools and the knowledge to …
The Calls of Frogs and Toads with CD (Audio)
This superb collection of field recordings and descriptions offers unparalleled access to the sounds and calls of numerous popular and less well-known amphibians. The book and accompanying CD provide an introduction to the sound repertoire of …
Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field is designed to provide a variety of exercises that engage students actively in all phases of scientific investigation, from formulating research questions through interpreting and presenting final …
For every dog owner who's ever wondered who's got whom on the leash, "The Dog Rules" provides many hysterically funny stories that all dog owners will immediately (and unfortunately) recognize.
A Manual for Wildlife Radio Tagging
Retaining the introductory flavor of the now classic First Edition, this revision includes all the latest techniques in the field. New information on methods of radio tag harnessing, new sections on satellite tracking techniques and new types of …
Songs and Calls of Birds of the Countryside with CD (Audio)
These superb collections of field recordings and descriptions offer unparalleled access to the sounds and calls of numerous popular and less well-known birds and amphibians. Each book and CD provides an introduction to the sound repertoire of …
Wings of Spring: Courtship, Nesting, and Fledging
With more than 200 stunning images by one of the country's top nature photographers, this beautiful and informative book tells the age-old story of how birds migrate to their nesting grounds, select a mate, establish a nest site, and raise their …
Moose, the giant deer of the northern forests of Europe, Asia, and North America, can grow up to seven feet tail at the shoulder and exceed sixteen hundred pounds. Author and wildlife biologist Victor Van Ballengerghe has studied wild moose in …
Songs and Calls of Yard, Garden, and City Birds with CD (Audio)
These superb collections of field recordings and descriptions offer unparalleled access to the sounds and calls of numerous popular and less well-known birds and amphibians. Each book and CD provides an introduction to the sound repertoire of …
Biodefense: Research Methodology and Animal Models
The importance attached to rapidly developing our biodefensive capabilities has recently resulted in a significantly increased funding for biodefense research. Accordingly, researchers will respond with an effort equal to the challenge, producing …
The Pacific Ocean off the west coast of North America - ranging from the south coast of Alaska to the Equator - encompasses many marine environments, from warm tropics to cold temperate waters, and from the shallow continental shelf to deep ocean …
Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales
This anthology straddles the realm of contemporary storytelling regarding one man's loathed and revered cohabitants: snakes. Includes contributions from Emily Dickinson, D.H. Lawrence, Paul Bowles, John Steinbeck, Willie Morris, Winston Groom, …
Wolf Mountains: A History of Wolves Along the Great Divide
carefully researched and controversial study that looks at issues surrounding wolf biology and the human-wolf relationship. Situating the wolf in the history of Canadian national parks, Karen Jones considers changing ideas of nature and …
Building on their last revision of Roger Eckert's bestselling text, the author team of Randall, Burggren, and French are back and breathing new life into Animal Physiology. The Fifth Edition highlights the latest breakthroughs in the field and …
Streams: Their Ecology and Life
Streams is a handbook that combines a discussion of the ecology of streams and rivers, in layperson language, with an illustrated field guide of the plants and animals found in running waters of North America. Various illustrations and maps …
Sturkie's Avian Physiology is "the" classic comprehensive single volume on the physiology of domestic as well as wild birds. The Fifth Edition is thoroughly revised and updated, and includes new chapters on the physiology of incubation and growth…
Animal Signals: Signaling and Signal Design in Animal Communication
How can we explain the peacock's beautiful tail decorations, or the wonderful song of the nightingale? Why are some smells nice and other nasty? How do animals signal their intentions and qualities to potential partners.? How do off-spring tell …
Insights from Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us
In this fascinating, beautifully illustrated book, Dr. Waldbauer explains that only a small percentage of bugs are a nuisance or harmful to humanity. He profiles 20 such "troublesome bugs," showing how the study of these creatures has led …
Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species
The most thorough treatment of the subject ever published, this amazing guide brings together clear track and trail illustrations, range maps, and numerous full-color photographs showing feeding signs, scat, tunnels, burrows, bedding areas, …
Population Limitation in Birds
This book meets the demand for a comprehensive introduction to understanding the processes of population limitation. Recognized world-wide as a respected biologist and communicator, Dr. Ian Newton has now written a clear and detailed treatise on …
Whales, although among our most important and interesting animals, have been little studied until recently. Almost a third of about seventy living cetacean species have been recorded in North American Pacific coast waters. Our word whale …
The Hippos: Natural History and Conservation (A Volume in the Poyser Natural History Series)
personable, affectionate discussion of the many aspects of the biology and ecology of both the common or river hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) and the much smaller pygmy hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis), written by a zoologist but perfectly …
Animal Cognition: The Mental Lives of Animals
Covering a wide range of key topics, from reasoning and communication to sensation and complex problem-solving, this engagingly-written text presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary research on animal cognition. Written for anyone with an …
Veterinary Clinical Epidemiology
Approaches and techniques of clinical epidemiology have become increasingly prominent in veterinary literature. This third edition includes discussions of applications of epidemiology in medical decision-making at the individual and herd levels, …
Crustacean and Arthropod Relationships
With rich detail and vibrancy, internationally recognized experts across several fields address the evolution and phylogenetic relationships of the Arthropoda . They offer innovative ideas to reevaluate the phylogeny of major arthropod groups, …
Prairie Ghost: Pronghorn and Human Interaction in Early America
This lavishly illustrated book tells the story of humans and the second fastest animal on Earth, the Pronghorn, in an informative and entertaining fashion.
Metabolic Regulation in Mammals
Metabolic Regulation in Mammals presents the basic principles of metabolic control, based on investigations conducted during the past twenty years. It explains the impact of recent advances in cell biology, molecular biology and genetics on the …
The Raven : A Natural History in Britain and Ireland
The Raven has a prominent place in myth, legend and history, but is relatively neglected in the modern scientific literature of ornithology. The Raven: A Natural History in Britain and Ireland presents a thorough summary of knowledge of its …