Kategoria BISAC: Nature >> Animals - General

Courage is something everyone needs but where does it come from? how do we find it? Vince needs some and hes going looking for it

The Kitten from Great Britain follows a cat that travels to different places to visit animal friends whose names rhyme with the country.

Neotropical Biogeography: Regionalization and Evolution presents the most comprehensive single-source treatment of the Neotropical region derived from evolutionary biogeographic studies. The book provides a biogeographic regionalization based on distributional patterns of plant and animal taxa, discusses biotic relationships drawn from track and cladistic biogeographic analyses, and identifies cenocrons (subsets of taxa within biotas identified by their common origin and evolutionary history). It includes maps, area cladograms and vegetation profiles.

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Molluscs are comprised of edible abalones, snails, mussels, oysters, cuttlefish, and squids. Since there are over 100,000 different species of molluscan, it is not surprising that their reproductive processes are extremely varied. With chapters focusing on sexual and asexual reproduction, aestivation, and how to determine sex, Reproduction and Development in Mollusca will be a valuable tool for marine biologists studying the endogenic biosynthesis and sexual differentiation of molluscans.

This book presents information on vertebrate invasive species for which there is a history of policy and management in the United States. Part I presents information on policy and management topics associated with vertebrate invasive species, including biosecurity threats and risk assessment. Parts II-IV provide specific information related to invasive amphibians and reptiles (Part II), mammals (Part III), and birds (Part IV). Part V of the book proposes challenges and opportunities related to the future of vertebrate invasive species management.

Craddock has taken themes of nature, time, cosmic consciousness, mysticism, transcendentalism, personalism, which Walt Whitman explored in his esteemed volume of poetry Leaves of Grass, and pursued their meaning with contemporary scientific discoveries. There are tides in nature and tides in human societies, countries and civilizations, which embrace interact or reject changing perspectives of nature.

Eagles Soar On High Thermals highlights explores individual and social awareness sown into contemporary and past perceptions of life and nature. The reader will embark upon a...

Biology and Culture of Portunid Crabs of World Seas provides an abundance of valuable first-hand information about the diversity, biology, ecology culture of the portunid crabs of the word seas.

Marine crabs play an important role directly or indirectly in the livelihood of millions of people around the world. They have been reported to make up about 20% of all marine crustaceans caught, farmed, and consumed worldwide. Among these marine crabs, portunid crabs or swimming crabs of the family Portunidae (Class: Crustacea; Order: Decapoda; Infraorder:...

For thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, and accelerometers reveal the natural world as never before. Where the Animals Go is the first book to offer a comprehensive, data-driven portrait of how creatures like ants, otters, owls, turtles, and sharks navigate the world. Based on pioneering research by scientists at the forefront of the animal-tracking revolution, James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti's stunning, four-color charts and maps tell fascinating stories of animal behavior. These astonishing...