How to make your favourite pet your best friend? Since becoming domestic pets thousands of years ago, an incredible understanding has evolved between them and their human owners, and while most of u……続きを見る
Foram identificados 4.490 indivíduos incluindo 17 ordens, 68 famílias e 160 espécies de peixes nos estágios de larvas e juvenis. Foram elaborados textos com informações gerais das ordens e famílias,……続きを見る
Decapod crustaceans, shrimps, crabs, prawns and their allies are highly visible and important members of marine environments. They are among the most charismatic of marine animals, inhabiting beache……続きを見る
Esta obra identifica a composição da ictiofauna da Represa de Jurumirim, reconhecendo os diferentes padrões reprodutivos de seus peixes, incluindo das espécies migradoras. Analisa também a dieta das……続きを見る
Amphibians and reptiles is a comprehensive guide to the native and non-native species of amphibian and reptile found in the British Isles. Professor Trevor Beebee covers the biology, ecology, conser……続きを見る
Strategies and Tactics of Behavioral Research and Practice focuses on the most effective methods for measuring and evaluating changes in behavior. The authors provide the rationale for different pro……続きを見る
Two of the world’s most popular and trusted pet care advocates reveal new science to teach us how to delay ageing and provide a long, happy, healthy life for our canine companions. The definitive, c……続きを見る
This book is an extended argument for abandoning the species rank. Instead, the author proposes that the rank of "species" be replaced by a pluralistic and multi-level view. In such a view, all clad……続きを見る
First published in 1994, The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia was the first ever book of its type in Australia – a complete guide to locating every resident bird species in Australia……続きを見る
What sort of worms live in your garden or paddocks? Are they orange, red, cream, pink, green, or brown and purple stripes? This booklet provides a simple identification key for most common worm spec……続きを見る
A pocket reference that allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes. It describes most storage pests found w……続きを見る
This textbook helped to define the field of Behavioural Ecology. In this fourth edition the text has been completely revised, with new chapters and many new illustrations and full colour photographs……続きを見る
Although the lion is not the largest, fastest or most lethal animal, its position as king of beasts has rarely been challenged. Since Palaeolithic times, lions have fascinated people, and due to its……続きを見る
Although the majority of the world's Herons live in the tropics and subtropics, Europe is home to nine species, some large, some small, some colonial, some solitary breeders.
Highly specialized bird……続きを見る
This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth……続きを見る
著者:Lorena Madrigal
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Anthropology as a discipline is rapidly becoming more quantitative, and anthropology students are now required to develop sophisticated statistical skills. This book provides students of anthropolog……続きを見る
As ice retreated from Britain 15,000 years ago, a host of large mammals including reindeer, wild horses, wooly mammoths, moose, wolves, brown bears, lynxes and wolverines established itself in Brita……続きを見る
Humans are primates, and our closest relatives are the other African apes - chimpanzees closest of all. With the mapping of the human genome, and that of the chimp, a direct comparison of the differ……続きを見る
This group of relatively large, colourful and familiar insects are a very popular subject of study because their behaviour can be observed without the use of elaborate equipment. This edition is exc……続きを見る
著者:Jeffrey P. Bonner
出版社: University of Missouri Press
発売日: 2013年06月03日
Written by the president of the nation’s number-one zoo, Sailing with Noah is an intensely personal, behind-the-scenes look at modern zoos. Jeffrey P. Bonner, who was trained as an anthropologist an……続きを見る
著者:Konrad Lorenz
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solomon's Ring. On Aggression is one of his finest work……続きを見る
著者:Konrad Lorenz
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年04月15日
Solomon, the legend goes, had a magic ring which enabled him to speak to the animals in their own language. Konrad Lorenz was gifted with a similar power of understanding the animal world. He was th……続きを見る
著者:Mr David Brewer
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2010年08月30日
This is the first comprehensive guide to these closely related families.
The book covers all 75 wrens, 34 thrashers and 5 dippers, almost all of which are New World species.
The wrens (Troglodytidae……続きを見る
Homeostasis and Toxicology of Non-Essential Metals synthesizes the explosion of new information on the molecular, cellular, and organismal handling of metals in fish in the past 15 years. These elem……続きを見る
This book covers 43 species of munias and mannikins.
Munias are widespread throughout the Old World's tropical regions. In their natural habitat, they are birds of the savanna, but they have adapted……続きを見る
Birdwatchers' Year is, in essence, six 'years' of bird activity and behaviour as recorded, month by month, by six experienced bird watchers and ornithologists. The result is a fascinating compilatio……続きを見る
Mammalian skull structure is notably diverse; however at a basic level the jaw mechanism is remarkably similar, if not essentially the same, in the majority of mammals. Using simple models that are ……続きを見る
Many landowners are interested in the native animals that live on their farms or once occurred there. In particular they want to know why particular species are present (or absent), what they can do……続きを見る
The most complete guide to fishing flies
Describes every type of fly – freshwater and saltwater
Covers flies from around the world
Every fly is illustrated with a specially taken photograph
Flies ar……続きを見る
This book looks at the penguins - an enduringly popular and fascinating group of birds.
Penguins are associated in the public consciousness with the icecap of the south pole, and we are all familiar……続きを見る