wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships
ISBN: 9780226121857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. The natural world is full of unusual relationships, and negotiation between life-forms striving to survive is evolution at its most diverse, entertaining, and awe-inspiring. Picking up where her highly popular Headless Males Make Great Lovers left off, tropical field biologist Marty Crump takes us on another voyage of discovery... Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on thei... |
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120,58 zł |
Women in Field Biology: A Journey into Nature
ISBN: 9781032318172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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572,76 zł |
Headless Males Make Great Lovers: And Other Unusual Natural Histories
ISBN: 9780226122021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The natural world is filled with diverse--not to mention quirky and odd--animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the male hip-pocket frog that carries his own tadpoles; the baby spiders that dine on their mother; the beetle that craves excrement; or the starfish that sheds an arm or two to escape a predator's grasp.
Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories celebrates the extraordinary world of animals with essays on curious... The natural world is filled with diverse--not to mention quirky and odd--animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate aft...
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76,73 zł |
In Search of the Golden Frog
ISBN: 9780226121987 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Marty Crump has searched for salamanders along the Amazon River; she has surveyed amphibians and reptiles in hostile Huaorani Indian territory; she has been stung by a conga ant and had run-ins with an electric eel, a boa constrictor, and a bushmaster viper. In the course of her travels she has dined, not always eagerly, on wild rat, parrot, guinea pig, and chicken foot soup. And for those among us who prefer our experiences to be vicarious and far away from biting insects, venomous snakes, and inhospitable surroundings, she has written In Search of the Golden Frog.
The book is a... Marty Crump has searched for salamanders along the Amazon River; she has surveyed amphibians and reptiles in hostile Huaorani Indian territory; she ha...
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131,54 zł |
Frog Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Amphibian Lives
ISBN: 9780226830209 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,87 zł |
A Year with Nature: An Almanac
ISBN: 9780226449708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A bedside book for nature lovers, this gathers science and lore, natural history and wit and wisdom, into a day-by-day wander through the year.
A bedside book for nature lovers, this gathers science and lore, natural history and wit and wisdom, into a day-by-day wander through the year.
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142,51 zł |