Zoology category: 2375 books
Primate Communication
A Multimodal Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Primates communicate with each other using a wide range of signals: olfactory signals to mark territories, screams to recruit help while fighting, gestures to request food and facial expressions to initiate play. Primate Communication brings together research on all forms of interchange and discusses...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Biology of Termites, a Modern Synthesis brings together the major advances in termite biology, phylogenetics, social evolution and biogeography. In this new volume, David Bignell, Yves Roisin and Nathan Lo have brought together leading experts on termite taxonomy, behaviour, genetics, caste differentiation,...
Monkeys, Apes, and Humans
Primatology in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
This book introduces to the reader unfamiliar with primatology in Japan three research projects representative of the unique multidisciplinary approach carried out by scientists at Kyoto University, the country’s premier institution for primate studies. The projects are all aimed at understanding...
Tool Use in Animals
Cognition and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The last decade has witnessed remarkable discoveries and advances in our understanding of the tool using behaviour of animals. Wild populations of capuchin monkeys have been observed to crack open nuts with stone tools, similar to the skills of chimpanzees and humans. Corvids have been observed to...
Herpetology
An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
This third edition, now fully revised and updated by two of Dr. Zug's colleagues, provides herpetology students and amateur reptile and amphibian keepers with the latest taxonomy and species developments from around the world. Herpetology is a rapidly evolving field, which has contributed to new discoveries...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
The first and second editions of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, edited by Gary R. Mullen and Lance A. Durden, published in 2002 and 2009, respectively, have been highly praised and become widely used as a textbook for classroom instruction. This fully revised third edition continues the focus...
Herpetology
An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The fourth edition of the textbook Herpetology covers the basic biology of amphibians and reptiles, with updates in nearly every conceptual area. Not only does it serve as a solid foundation for modern herpetology courses, but it is also relevant to courses in ecology, behavior, evolution, systematics,...
by Michel Laurin
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
More than three hundred million years ago—a relatively recent date in the two billion years since life first appeared—vertebrate animals first ventured onto land. This usefully illustrated book describes how some finned vertebrates acquired limbs, giving rise to more than 25,000 extant tetrapod...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
This volume reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratites. Although ratites incorporate several families of flightless birds this book focuses on the most commonly farmed ratites, the ostrich, emu and rhea. The readers are taken on...
A Chance for Lasting Survival
Ecology and Behavior of Wild Giant Pandas
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was conducted during a significant transition period...
Emotions of Animals and Humans
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to emotion, with contributions from biologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, robot engineers, and artists. A wide range of emotional phenomena is discussed, including the notion that humans’ sophisticated sensibility, as evidenced by our aesthetic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book analyzes the psychological mechanisms critical to animal communication. The topics covered range from single neurons to broad-scale phylogenetic patterns, shedding new light on the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes that underlie the communicative behaviors of signalers and receivers...
Behavioral Embryology
Studies on the Development of Behavior and the Nervous System
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Behavioral Embryology deals with the theoretical, philosophical, and empirical problems of behavioral embryology.
The book is composed of studies on prenatal neural and behavioral development. The text discussed various topics on behavioral embryology such as the genetic aspects of neuro-embryology;...
Pheromones and Animal Behavior
Chemical Signals and Signatures
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Pheromones and other kinds of chemical communication underlie the behavior of all animals. Building on the strengths of the first edition, widely recognized as the leading text in the subject, this is a comprehensive overview of how pheromones work. Extensively revised and expanded to cover advances...