Zoology and animal sciences

Extinction of quagga zebras left behind historical records, art, literature, and DNA whose information led to their rebreeding.

Latest developments in understanding how, when and where the extraordinary body plan and ecology of snakes evolved from lizard ancestors.

Introduces the diverse roles metaphors play in the life sciences and highlights their significance for theory, communication, and education.

Highlights what we know about the pathways pursued by embryos and evolution, and stresses what we do not yet know.

Highlights what we know about the pathways pursued by embryos and evolution, and stresses what we do not yet know.

Fresh waters are disproportionately rich in species, and represent global hotspots of biodiversity.

Phylogenetic community paleoecology of Upper Ordovician crinoid faunas reveals the timing and magnitude of niche evolution through deep time.

Powerful analytical tools from statistical physics, guided by field observations are applied to spread of epidemics and movement ecology.

Powerful analytical tools from statistical physics, guided by field observations are applied to spread of epidemics and movement ecology.

Phylogenetic community paleoecology of Upper Ordovician crinoid faunas reveals the timing and magnitude of niche evolution through deep time.

The complete guide to our closest living relative, drawing on thirty years of primate observation.

Fresh waters are disproportionately rich in species, and represent global hotspots of biodiversity.

This book blends new and historical research to present experiments, theories, and discoveries in fluid regulation, thirst, and drinking.

This book blends new and historical research to present experiments, theories, and discoveries in fluid regulation, thirst, and drinking.

Aerodynamics and stability implications of flexible wings, interactions and nonlinear vortex dynamics of flapping wings in insects.

New edition presents progress made to practices, additional case studies, and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners.

This book examines how evolution influences learning and memory processes in both human and nonhuman animals.

New edition presents progress made to practices, additional case studies, and emerging issues, for coastal scientists, engineers, planners.

This book examines how evolution influences learning and memory processes in both human and nonhuman animals.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

The first clearly-illustrated, comparative book on developmental primate skeletal anatomy, focused on the highly informative newborn stage.

A primatologist''s guide to using geographic information systems (GIS); from mapping and field accuracy, to tracking travel routes and the impact of logging.

Explains the concepts and practical methods of behavioural science in clear, concise terms: vital for understanding humans, animals and AIs.

Eight interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars and public figures discuss the timely theme of migration in a range of contexts.

Explains the concepts and practical methods of behavioural science in clear, concise terms: vital for understanding humans, animals and AIs.

Eight interdisciplinary essays by leading scholars and public figures discuss the timely theme of migration in a range of contexts.

The first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies, covering past relationships between humans and nonhuman primates across the world.

First book to outline the fundamental principles of social evolution underlying the stunning diversity of social systems and behaviours.

This book situates zoos as trusted cultural institutions with valuable affordances for engaging people in natural resource conservation.

This book situates zoos as trusted cultural institutions with valuable affordances for engaging people in natural resource conservation.

Presents new insights into speciation through an in-depth analysis of extraordinary chromosomal variation in one species written by leading experts.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

Combining personal stories of motivation with new research this book offers a holistic picture of primate conservation in the Anthropocene.

Captures the full scope of the literature, integrating ecological and molecular mechanisms that enable insects to enter a dormant state.

A critical assessment of how evidence in biological anthropology is discovered, collected and interpreted.

Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species–area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.

The first detailed account of post-copulatory sexual selection and the evolution of reproduction in mammals.

A multi-disciplinary perspective on species conservation, from the biology of threatened island species to leadership of their recovery.

This comprehensive handbook covers the different aspects of the aquatic environment, microbiology, and microbial applications.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

Presents different strategies for biological control along with their ecological bases, using many examples from a diversity of ecosystems.

Explores many aspects of the behaviour, genetics, taxonomy and evolution of this genus and its adaptation to multiple environments.

Fully updated and beautifully illustrated, this leading textbook teaches science and non-science majors to think like a scientist.

Studying behaviour in animals requires numerical measurement.

Animal Subjects finds a new understanding of animal life in the literature and science of the early twentieth century.

A practical, step-by-step guide to rearing freshwater mussels, one of the most imperiled groups of animals in the world.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

The first book to present the latest discoveries on the behaviour, ecology and evolutionary biology of lorises and pottos.

A ground breaking study of primates that live in flooded habitats around the world.

A practical, step-by-step guide to rearing freshwater mussels, one of the most imperiled groups of animals in the world.