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Mammals of Indiana, Revised and Enlarged Edition
ISBN: 9780253349712 / Angielski / Twarda / 660 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. This highly anticipated new edition of Mammals of Indiana by John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Russell E. Mumford, first published by Indiana University in 1982, places strong emphasis on ecology with descriptions of Indiana's habitats, climate, and vegetation and detailed species accounts. This well-illustrated book will be a boon to residents of Indiana, many of whom have little acquaintance with the state's 57 species of wild, mostly small, secretive, and nocturnal mammals, and it is sure to please the most avid ecology enthusiast. Summarizing current knowledge about Indiana's mammal species,... This highly anticipated new edition of Mammals of Indiana by John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Russell E. Mumford, first published by Indiana University i... |
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305,03 zł |
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The Quintessential Naturalist : Honoring the Life and Legacy of Oliver P. Pearson
ISBN: 9780520098596 / Angielski / Miękka / 988 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Oliver P. Pearson s studies on mammalian biology remain standard reading for ecologists, physiologists, taxonomists, and biogeographers. Reflecting this, the papers gathered here continue to expand our understanding of the ecology and evolution of subterranean mammals, and of ecology, taxonomy, and biogeography of Neotropical mammals, a group that was central to the latter half of Pearson s career."
Oliver P. Pearson s studies on mammalian biology remain standard reading for ecologists, physiologists, taxonomists, and biogeographers. Reflecting th...
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411,75 zł |
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Mammalian Social Learning : Comparative and Ecological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521031950 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Social learning commonly refers to the social transfer of information and skill among individuals. It encompasses a wide range of behaviors that include where and how to obtain food, how to interact with members of one's own social group, and how to identify and respond appropriately to predators. Mammalian Social Learning discusses a wide diversity of species, some of which have never been discussed in this context before, with particular reference made to their natural life strategies. Expert chapters consider social learning in humans in comparison with other mammals, especially in their...
Social learning commonly refers to the social transfer of information and skill among individuals. It encompasses a wide range of behaviors that inclu...
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362,73 zł |
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Cooperative Breeding in Mammals
ISBN: 9780521038287 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian explanation of the evolution of social behavior. The contributors to this book explore the evolutionary, ecological, behavioral, and physiological basis of cooperative breeding in mammals. The book contains a collection of chapters by the leading researchers in the field, and it is the first book dedicated exclusively to the study of mammalian...
Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay bre...
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266,27 zł |
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Cooperative Breeding in Mammals
ISBN: 9780521454919 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay breeding and invest in the offspring of others, cooperative breeding poses a challenge to a Darwinian explanation of the evolution of social behavior. The contributors to this book explore the evolutionary, ecological, behavioral, and physiological basis of cooperative breeding in mammals. The book contains a collection of chapters by the leading researchers in the field, and it is the first book dedicated exclusively to the study of mammalian...
Cooperative breeding refers to a social system in which individuals other than the parents provide care for the offspring. Since individuals delay bre...
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656,94 zł |
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Monogamy : Mating Strategies and Partnerships in Birds, Humans and Other Mammals
ISBN: 9780521525770 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Why do birds often live in pairs and rear chicks together, whereas female mammals usually live in groups and rear their young without male help? Why do males sometimes live with a single mate when they are capable of fertilizing more than one female's eggs? Is male helping behavior important for monogamous partnerships? This book provides answers concerning the biological roots of social monogamy in animal groups as diverse as ungulates, carnivores, rodents, birds and primates (including humans) for students and researchers in behavioral ecology, evolutionary anthropology and zoology.
Why do birds often live in pairs and rear chicks together, whereas female mammals usually live in groups and rear their young without male help? Why d...
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206,90 zł |
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Mammalian Social Learning : Comparative and Ecological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780521632638 / Angielski / Twarda / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Social learning commonly refers to the social transfer of information and skill among individuals. It encompasses a wide range of behaviors that include where and how to obtain food, how to interact with members of one's own social group, and how to identify and respond appropriately to predators. Mammalian Social Learning discusses a wide diversity of species, some of which have never been discussed in this context before, with particular reference made to their natural life strategies. Expert chapters consider social learning in humans in comparison with other mammals, especially in their...
Social learning commonly refers to the social transfer of information and skill among individuals. It encompasses a wide range of behaviors that inclu...
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787,16 zł |
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Monogamy : Mating Strategies and Partnerships in Birds, Humans and Other Mammals
ISBN: 9780521819732 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Why do birds often live in pairs and rear chicks together, whereas female mammals usually live in groups and rear their young without male help? Why do males sometimes live with a single mate when they are capable of fertilizing more than one female's eggs? Is male helping behavior important for monogamous partnerships? This book provides answers concerning the biological roots of social monogamy in animal groups as diverse as ungulates, carnivores, rodents, birds and primates (including humans) for students and researchers in behavioral ecology, evolutionary anthropology and zoology.
Why do birds often live in pairs and rear chicks together, whereas female mammals usually live in groups and rear their young without male help? Why d...
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594,24 zł |
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Giant Pandas : Biology, Veterinary Medicine and Management
ISBN: 9780521832953 / Angielski / Twarda / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. The giant panda is one of the world's most recognized animals, but until now the biology of this threatened species has been a mystery. With the environment undergoing unprecedented change at a rapid and accelerating rate, can such a highly specialized species survive? This book summarizes the present state of knowledge about panda biology, encompassing topics such as reproduction, behavior, nutrition, genetics and veterinary medicine. It also provides the latest information on veterinary management, advances in neonatal care, disease detection and prevention and the use of 'assisted...
The giant panda is one of the world's most recognized animals, but until now the biology of this threatened species has been a mystery. With the envir...
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825,75 zł |
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Mammalian Development
ISBN: 9783718659203 / Angielski / Miękka / 387 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. A collection of essays on the developmental biology of mammals. This volume aids understanding of how the body and the brain are formed, but also furthers knowledge in fields with direct clinical importance such as gene regulation, cancer, regeneration and wound healing.
A collection of essays on the developmental biology of mammals. This volume aids understanding of how the body and the brain are formed, but also furt...
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318,20 zł |
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The Mammals of the Southern African Sub-region
ISBN: 9780521844185 / Angielski / Twarda / 814 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The definitive reference covering mammals of the southern African subregion. Extensively revised and updated for this new edition.
The definitive reference covering mammals of the southern African subregion. Extensively revised and updated for this new edition.
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1397,81 zł |
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Centre for Fortean Zoology Yearbook 1999
ISBN: 9781905723249 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With contributions from both well-known researchers, and relative newcomers to the field, this yearbook provides a forum where new theories can be expounded, and work on little-known cryptids discussed.
With contributions from both well-known researchers, and relative newcomers to the field, this yearbook provides a forum where new theories can be exp...
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92,93 zł |
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The Mammals of Cheshire
ISBN: 9781846311246 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The Mammals of Cheshire provides the first survey of mammals in the Cheshire region for nearly one hundred years. While the majority of chapters cover the region's main species looking at their distribution, biology and identification, along with up-to-date distribution maps, further chapters cover Cheshire habitats, the history of mammals and their recording and conservation issues. Required reading for all those interested in the county's natural environment, this richly illustrated volume includes colour photographs and specially commissioned line drawings.
The Mammals of Cheshire provides the first survey of mammals in the Cheshire region for nearly one hundred years. While the majority of chapters cover...
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56,70 zł |
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The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa
ISBN: 9780226616742 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior--the matriarch lifted her foot and scanned the horizon, causing the other elephants to follow suit, as if they could -hear- the ground. The Elephant's Secret Sense is O'Connell's account of her groundbreaking research into seismic listening and communication, chronicling the extraordinary social lives of elephants over the course of fourteen years in the Namibian wilderness.
This compelling odyssey of scientific discovery is also a frank account of fieldwork in a... While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior--the matriarch lifted her foot and scanned ...
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58,65 zł |
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The North American Porcupine
ISBN: 9780801446467 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Praise for the first edition: "Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time authoritative, full of well-documented data, and yet as readable as this book. It is good literature as well as good science. Readers almost feel as though they are looking over the shoulder of the observer, feeling his discomfort at the cold and rain, his excitement when something new and unexpected happens, and sharing in the sadness over the demise or misfortune of an animal that had long ago become a friend." Quarterly Review of Biology "The... Praise for the first edition: "Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time authoritative, full of... |
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245,39 zł |
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Maternal Effects in Mammals
ISBN: 9780226501208 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother s phenotypic traits directly affect her offspring s phenotype, independent of the offspring s genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits that result in maternal effects have a genetic basis, whereas others are environmentally determined. For example, the size of a litter produced by a mammalian mother a trait with a strong genetic basis can affect the growth rate of her offspring, while a mother s dominance rank an environmentally determined trait can affect the dominance rank of her offspring. The first volume published on the subject... Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother s phenotypic traits directly affect her offspring s phenotype, independent of the offspring s... |
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186,36 zł |
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Cougar: Ecology and Conservation
ISBN: 9780226353449 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The cougar is one of the most beautiful, enigmatic, and majestic animals in the Americas. Eliciting reverence for its grace and independent nature, it also triggers fear when it comes into contact with people, pets, and livestock or competes for hunters game. Mystery, myth, and misunderstanding surround this remarkable creature. The cougar s range once extended from northern Canada to the tip of South America, and from the Pacific to the Atlantic, making it the most widespread animal in the western hemisphere. But overhunting and loss of habitat vastly reduced cougar numbers by the early... The cougar is one of the most beautiful, enigmatic, and majestic animals in the Americas. Eliciting reverence for its grace and independent nature,... |
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201,39 zł |
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The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society - audiobook
ISBN: 9781400163557 / Angielski / MP3 CD Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away as instinctive, thanks to evolution and "survival of the fittest," but, in fact, humans are equally hard-wired for empathy. Using research from the fields of anthropology, psychology, animal behavior, and neuroscience, Frans de Waal brilliantly argues that humans are group animals-highly cooperative, sensitive to injustice, and mostly peace-loving-just like other primates, elephants, and dolphins. This revelation has profound implications for...
Is it really human nature to stab one another in the back in our climb up the corporate ladder? Competitive, selfish behavior is often explained away ...
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82,07 zł |
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The Great Pheromone Myth
ISBN: 9780801893476 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Mammalian pheromones, audiomones, visuomones, and snarks--Richard Doty argues that they all belong in the same category: objects of imagination. For more than 50 years, researchers--including many prominent scientists--have identified pheromones as the triggers for a wide range of mammalian behaviors and endocrine responses. In this provocative book, renowned olfaction expert Richard L. Doty rejects this idea and states bluntly that, in contrast to insects, mammals do not have pheromones. Doty systematically debunks the claims and conclusions of studies that purport to reveal... Mammalian pheromones, audiomones, visuomones, and snarks--Richard Doty argues that they all belong in the same category: objects of imagination. |
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261,49 zł |
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The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
ISBN: 9780801893049 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy whose name is forever linked to Geoffroy's cat? This unique reference provides a brief look at the real lives behind the scientific and vernacular mammal names one encounters in field guides, textbooks, journal articles, and other scholarly works. Arranged to mirror standard dictionaries, the more than 1,300 entries included here explain the origins of over 2,000 mammal species names. Each bio-sketch lists the scientific and common-language... Just who was the Przewalski after whom Przewalski's horse was named? Or Husson, the eponym for the rat Hydromys hussoni? Or the Geoffroy who... |
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256,48 zł |