Zoology and animal sciences

Freshwater macroinvertebrates provide a useful and reliable indicator of the health of our rivers, streams, ponds and wetlands.

Australia has a rich diversity of phasmids - otherwise known as stick and leaf insects.

Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects - many are large and brightly coloured.

The forests and woodlands of Victoria's Box-Ironbark Region are one of the most important areas of animal diversity and significance in southern Australia.

Over the past half a century research has revealed that marsupials – far from being ‘second class’ mammals – have adaptations for particular ways of life quite equal to their placental counterparts.

The Zygaenidae are a family of day-flying moths with an unusual biology – they are capable of releasing prussic (hydrocyanic) acid.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the identification of 800 species of decapod and stomatopod crustaceans from southern Australian marine waters.

This is the first book to deal exclusively with the Australian members of the Family Ardeidae (herons, egrets and bitterns).

Haematology of Australian Mammals is a valuable guide to collecting and analysing the blood of Australian mammals for haematological studies and diagnosis and monitoring of disease.

Everything the first time fish-keeper needs to know to set up a tank.

"e;Professor Einstein said that if the bees disappear, so do we!

Methods in Bone Biology is unique in being devoted to describing the methodology used by bone researchers.

Integrating advances in molecular biology into bioprocesses presents a continuous challenge to scientists and bioengineers.

RICHARD DAWKINS A conference with the title 'The Tinbergen Legacy' was held in Oxford on 20th March, 1990.

As the current millennium steams towards a close, one cannot help but look with amazement at the incredible amount of progress that has been achieved in medicine in just the last few decades.

'Informative, well-constructed, and readable.

The study of immunology encompasses a vast and ever-growing body of information that in some way or other incorporates most areas of medical biological research.

This book is about the growth and differentiation processes underlying the growth and differentia- of filamentous fungi.

It is a pleasure to contribute the foreword to Introduction to Cell and Tissue Culture: The- ory and Techniques by Mather and Roberts.

We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries.

Join QI's expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects.

The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world.

Jorge Tadeo Lozano compartió con muchos de sus compañeros de generación y estudio la preocupación por el fomento de la riqueza de su patria y la obsesión por el conocimiento de sus recursos naturales.

A multimedia experience that lets you look at-and listen to-birds in a whole new way!

One of the most important hotspots of herpetological biodiversity in the United States, California is home to many endemic amphibians and reptiles found nowhere else on earth.

Common among moths is a mate-finding system in which females emit a pheromone that induces males to fly upwind along the pheromone plume.

Across the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions, ants are one of the most conspicuous and ecologically dominant animal groups.

Parrots of the Wildis an exhaustive compendium of information about parrots, from their evolutionary history to their behavior to present-day conservation issues.

Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales.

There are more than 33,000 species of living fishes, accounting for more than half of the extant vertebrate diversity on Earth.

The Northern California coast--from Monterey County to the Oregon border--is home to some of the richest avian habitats on the North American continent.

This is the first scholarly book on the antelope that dominates the savanna ecosystems of eastern and southern Africa.

This engaging personal account of one of America's most contested wildlife conservation campaigns has as its central character the black-footed ferret.

They change color depending on their mood.

Records of parasitism in crocodilians date back to the early 1800s, distributed among various types of published and unpublished materials.

With over 40,000 described species, spiders have adapted to nearly every terrestrial environment across the globe.

The most comprehensive book on giraffes to appear in the last fifty years, this volume presents a magnificent portrait of a group of animals who, in spite of their legendary elegance and astonishing gentleness, may not entirely survive this century.

The Turtles of Mexico is the first comprehensive guide to the biology, ecology, evolution, and distribution of more than fifty freshwater and terrestrial turtle taxa found in Mexico.

This engaging and easy-to-use natural history guidebook provides a thorough overview of native and honey bee biology and offers tools for identifying the most common bees of California and the Western United States.

The Pacific is not only the world's largest body of water; its vast expanse also includes an extraordinary number and diversity of oceanic islands, from Palau and the Marianas east of the Philippines to Cocos Island and the Galapagos west of the Americas.

The ant fauna of the Fijian archipelago is a diverse assemblage of endemic radiations, pan-Pacific species, and exotics introduced from around the world.

The North American freshwater fish fauna is the most diverse and thoroughly researched temperate fish fauna in the world.

The microscopic examination of fossilized bone tissue is a sophisticated and increasingly important analytical tool for understanding the life history of ancient organisms.

We expose it, cover it, paint it, tattoo it, scar it, and pierce it.

This stunning field guide provides a comprehensive resource for identifying and appreciating nearly 500 species of spiders.

This beautifully illustrated and user-friendly book presents the most up-to-date information available about the natural histories of birds of the Sierra Nevada, the origins of their names, the habitats they prefer, how they communicate and interact with one another, their relative abundance, and where they occur within the region.

Declining bird populations, especially those that breed in North American grasslands, have stimulated extensive research on factors that affect nest failure and reduced reproductive success.

Evolutionary biology has long sought to explain how new traits and new species arise.

Now that more than half of the world's population lives in cities, the study of birds in urban ecosystems has emerged at the forefront of ornithological research.

Each year shorebirds from North and South America migrate thousands of miles to spend the summer in the Arctic.