Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Animals - General

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2008. Human culture is now more dangerous to nonhuman animals than ever before. The destruction of natural habitats and the killing of animals for food, science, medicine or trophy -- sometimes to the point of extinction -- is the stuff of newspaper headlines. We live in a time when the idea of an animal's habitat has almost become irrelevant, except as a historical curiosity, yet also in a time when the public and philosophical acknowledgement of animal rights and environmental ethics is on the rise. Animals are enmeshed in human culture simply because...

Sexual Selection: Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics presents new sexual selection research based upon neotropical species. As neotropical regions are destroyed at an alarming rate, with an estimated 140 species of rainforest plants and animals going extinct every day, it is important to bring neotropical research to the fore now.

Sexual selection occurs when the male or female of a species is attracted by certain characteristics such as form, color or behavior. When those features lead to a greater probability of successful mating, they become more prominent in the...

Do you love animals? Do you feel a connection with a furry friend? Do you believe animals offer something that can touch and heal a human heart?

My Therapist and Other Animals tells of the healing bond that can be created when animals are participants in our lives. These true stories document the loving connection between humans and those with whom we share a planet. Written by René Chorley, an experienced attachment therapist, it illustrates how animals can reach through the pain of abuse, neglect and trauma and reignite the...

Do you love animals? Do you feel a connection with a furry friend? Do you believe animals offer something that can touch and heal a human heart?

My Therapist and Other Animals tells of the healing bond that can be created when animals are participants in our lives. These true stories document the loving connection between humans and those with whom we share a planet. Written by René Chorley, an experienced attachment therapist, it illustrates how animals can reach through the pain of abuse, neglect and trauma and reignite the...

Spending the summer by a lovely lake is wonderful--the sun, sand, and water combine to form a great playground where we can see everything that nature has to offer. There are flowers and plants, insects and birds, in addition to lots of other wildlife nearby. And at night, we can have a campfire and make delicious s'mores

Featuring simple colored-pencil illustrations, this poem takes a leisurely summer stroll around one of our most valuable natural resources--a freshwater lake.

Morphodynamics is defined as the unique interaction among environment, functional morphology, developmental constraints, phylogeny, and time all of which shape the evolution of life. These fabricational patterns and similarities owe their regularity not to a detailed genetic program, but to extrinsic factors, which may be mechanical, chemical, or biological in nature. These self-organizing mechanisms are the focus of Morphodynamics.

Illustrated by numerous examples from across the biological spectrum, this book embodies the foundation of noted paleontologist Adolf...