Zoology and animal sciences

Do you like bugs?

Centuries ago, when penguins were first encountered by European explorers, they were not thought to be birds but rather a fish-like relative.

Your child probably already knows how to identify common animals found around them.

Virtually make your kids plunge and dive into the deep blue seas and meet the incredible sea mammals down there.

Children are very eager to learn that is why you should present them with all the opportunities to do so.

Mammals are truly amazing!

To adults, the differences are very obvious.

Do dolphin use words to communicate with each other?

The wilderness is a dangerous place for small animals.

The bone marrow transplant is a complex medical procedure performed by skilled personnel.

The grasslands is home to different kinds of wildlife.

What animals live in the harsh conditions of the Sahara?

Who lives in the rainforest?

Let's meet the animals in the wild side of Africa, the Serengeti.

It's trivia time!

Let's learn about invertebrates!

Amphibians aren't that bad once you get to know them.

It's one thing to know that a bird is a bird, but it's a whole new level to know that that bird is a parrot and the other is a woodpecker.

Let's raise smart kids, and let's do that with one educational book at a time.

What do you know about mammals?

Due to the phylogenetic relationship and close genetic and biological similarities with humans, non-human primates (NHP) are regularly used in biomedical and behavioural research.

This book presents five chapters describing the characteristics and behaviors of Bubalus bubalis, or domestic water buffalo.

Crayfish are one of the most iconic freshwater crustacean groups of the world.

In Waterton Lakes National Park, located in southwest Alberta, Canada, under-road crossing structures were installed in 2008 to protect a population of long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) at Linnet Lake from mortality during breeding migrations that intersected with the park's entrance road.

The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of each, gained from the highest authorities obtainable.

This book on the history, breeding, management and diseases of domestic animals is a snapshot of American animal husbandry around the year 1850.

Sheep Diseases: Signs, Symptoms and Prevention first addresses a comprehensive review of sheep mastitis.

Chimpanzee Behaviour: Recent Understandings from Captivity and the Forest brings diverse topics together in one volume.

The Zoological Guide to Crustacea opens by providing an update on the cave crustacean decapods from Mexico, because in the last thirty years several species have been described.

Mosquitos: Species, Distribution and Disease opens with a discussion on the potential use of plant-derived saponins as a natural larvicide to help prevent and control disease outbreaks in mosquito-infested areas.

Cetaceans are one of the most unknown groups in the animal kingdom.

This book presents, in two parts, a review concerning the use of Rattus norvegicus as a model for the study of neurological disorders and oncological diseases (mammary cancer).

Killing for Sport was previously published in 1915 at a time when widespread attention was being drawn to questions concerning the land, it was especially fitting that the part played by the sportsman should not be overlooked, and that not only the cruelty, but the wastefulness of the practice of breeding and killing animals for mere amusement, should be made clear.

Caenorhabditis elegans - An Overview and Emerging Roles in Studying Disease explores different disease models that have been successfully validated in this nematode, either to unravel disease mechanisms or to perform drug screenings.

Plant-insect interaction has remained stable for more than 300 million years, a fact that correlates with these groups' capacity to connect with their counterparts for reproduction, protection and feeding, among other things.

Poultry farming as a means of profit can be made successful only by maintaining the most vigorous and sustained campaign against disease.

Amphibians: Biology, Ecology and Conservation opens with a review of the current knowledge on the Harderian gland of anuran amphibians.

Matrescene meets the Golden Mole - discover what the animal kingdom expects when it's expectingIt takes 40 weeks to grow a human baby.

'What I like best about this fascinating book is the detail.

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST NATURE BOOKS OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY & WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP LITERARY PRIZE'Lovely: full of fascinating detail and anecdote, but the undertow of the virus moving in real time beneath its sunlit surface gives it a unique emotional heft.

Informative, surprising and hilarious, New Scientist tackles questions about the animal kingdom from readers in the magazine's popular 'Last Word' column.

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Los artrópodos son el grupo animal más abundante y diverso del planeta, representados en más de un millón doscientas mil especies conocidas.

How to breed, rear and win with the most fiercely contested toy breed of the 1920s.

"e;How to Enjoy Birds"e; is a vintage guide to bird watching, focusing on where and how to find certain birds in England.

First published in 1928, this vintage book contains a detailed guide to game birds, with a special focus on those native to England.

This final volume of the monumental Zoology series, published in 1843, documents the herpetological specimens collected by Charles Darwin during the five-year expedition of H.

This volume presents the definitive ornithological record from Charles Darwin's historic five-year voyage aboard H.

This volume is the definitive record of the living mammals collected by Charles Darwin during his historic five-year circumnavigation aboard H.

"e;The Insectarium"e; is a vintage guide to setting up and maintaining an insectarium, originally written for entomologists and naturalists.