Zoology and animal sciences

While advances in modem medicine largely parallel our understanding of morphology, discoveries in morphology are propelled by developments of new tools and means to visualize and measure tissue elements.

In this lively history and celebration of the Pacific razor clam, David Berger shares with us his love affair with the glossy, gold-colored Siliqua patula and gets into the nitty-gritty of how to dig, clean, and cook them using his favorite recipes.

The 2nd edition of this comprehensive book provides one of the most complete overviews of the aquatic beetles in the family Dytiscidae, also known as predaceous diving beetles.

This field guide covers The Gambia, a country which is very popular with a large number of birders and tourists, and the whole of neighbouring Senegal.

In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at how the world first came to have a meaning in the minds of animals and how in humans this meaning eventually came to be expressed as language.

Development & Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus & Cortex is based on a 2-day symposium offered for the first time at SFN 2003.

This order once encompassed all insects with a complex network of wing veins, regardless of whether their metamorphosis was incomplete or complete.

This book aims to address the importance of natural enemies and functional diversity for biological control in Neotropical agroecosystems.

This volume contains ten chapters that detail advances in animal science and zoology.

Behaviour analysis has tradionally been one of the main areas and main approaches to psychology.

Killing Bugs for Business and Beauty examines the beginning of Canada's aerial war against forest insects and how a tiny handful of officials came to lead the world with a made-in-Canada solution to the problem.

Wide and fascinating is the field of research on tryptophan, a most versatile amino acid, transformed, as it is, in our organism into many biologically active substances.

THE NEUROETHOLOGY OF PREDATION AND ESCAPE To eat and not get eaten is key to animal survival, and the arms race between predators and prey has driven the evolution of many rapid and spectacular behaviours.

This volume is based on the program of the International Conference on Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and Immunodeficiency held in Clearwater Beach, Florida.

This book addresses the needs of professional and amateurtaxonomists on the subject of ascidians in Asia.

At a recent meeting of the Society for Invertebrate Pathology, Dr.

The book describes all the main habitat types, the structure and composition of bird communities, and reviews bird sites and their distribution throughout Britain.

The field of grooming research and its significance for the human and animal brain.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.

This title was originally published in 1990.

The Psychoanalytic Understanding of Consciousness, Free Will, Language, and Reason examines the ways in which we can use psychoanalysis in order to better understand humanity and explores the question of what makes us human.

Describes biological rhythms and clocks evolved by marine organisms in relation to tidal, daily, lunar and seasonal life cycle events.

What is animal welfare?

The Experimental Animal in Biomedical Research provides a concise, useful survey of knowledge regarding laboratory animal care.

From the Chapman & Hall Microbiology Series this unique resource offers specific experimental and practical applications of mathematical modeling in microbial ecology.

Throughout the bird world, examples of strange and seemingly inexplicable behaviours abound.

The Biology of Stentor summarizes all that has been learned about the biology of a certain group of ciliate protozoa: the stentors.

This volume summarizes recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms that produce successful symbiotic partnerships involving microorganisms.

Both seasoned and beginning investigators will be amazed at the range and complexity of rat behavior as described in the 43 chapters of this volume.

In this completely revised Texas A&M University Press edition, Guthery and coauthor Fidel Hernndez have breathed new life into a classic work that for more than twenty years has been teaching biologists, managers, and ranchers to think like a quail.

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This is the sixth volume in the Birds of Africa series, covering the rich avifauna of the world's second largest continent.

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests.

Landschnecken spielen als Zersetzer von totem Pflanzenmaterial eine wichtige Rolle im Stoffkreislauf der Natur.

Shortlisted for the 2018 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards in the edited book categoryThe various species of new world blackbirds, often intermingled in large foraging flocks and nighttime roosts, collectively number in the hundreds of millions and are a dominant component of the natural and agricultural avifauna in North America today.

This volume examines cells set aside during development for use later in ontogeny or in adult life.

Brain Receptor Methodologies: Part B Amino Acids.

Since the publication of the second volume of Comparative Psychology by Warden, Warner, and Jenkins (1940), there has not been a comprehensive review of invertebrate learning capacities.

This book is a result of the authors' more than 40 years of study on the behavior, populations, and heavy metals in the colonial waterbirds nesting in Barnegat Bay and the nearby estuaries and bays in the Northeastern United States.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Late Radiation Pathology of Mammals" verfügbar.

This volume investigates the contemporary fauna that inhabit the Cuatro Cienegas Basin.