Zoology and animal sciences

Fish comprise more than 50% of all living vertebrates and are found in a wide range of highly diverse habitats like the deep sea, the shoreline, tide pools, tropical streams and sweetwater ponds.

Experimental Endocrinology: A Sourcebook of Basic Techniques focuses on techniques and methodologies used in conducting experiments on endocrinology.

Thermal Imaging Techniques to Survey and Monitor Animals in the Wild: A Methodology provides a manual for anyone interested in understanding thermal imaging and its usefulness in solving a wide range of problems regarding the observation of wildlife.

This book is dedicated to the fundamental clinical signs of astute observation, careful differential diagnosis and analytical therapeutic decision-making in emergency veterinary settings.

This book offers a comprehensive account of India's four biodiversity hotspots: the Himalaya, Indo-Burma, Western Ghats and Sri Lanka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

This interdisciplinary book explores posthuman and psychological approaches to childhood education and well-being by examining 'animal-assisted' education, using qualitative approaches to understand the nuanced mechanisms which unfold in child-dog interactions.

Health and welfare issues of brachycephalic (flat-faced) animals are one of the most pressing problems facing companion animals right now.

The main subject of this book is the interaction between diggings created by porcupines when consuming geophytes, and their influences on annual and perennial vegetation in a desert biome.

This book presents a new, detailed examination that explains how elegant brains have been shaped in evolution.

A unique collection of stunning photographs and detailed portraits of over fifty of the most striking owl species around the world.

This book addresses a global issue of increasing high quality food from ruminant animals while reducing their impacts on the environment.

In recent years, pollination has become a very important research trend, and wild bees in particular play a key role in the dynamics of plant pollination.

This book provides a detailed evaluation of the hydro-ecological characteristics of the Western Balkans, an area characterized by still preserved inland waters and fish resources important for the European continent, as well as the biodiversity of inland waters important for the planet Earth.

This book is a comprehensive elucidation on aspects of reproduction and development in platyhelminthes covering from acoelids to taeniids.

This first volume in the series on "e;Comparative Brain Research in Mammals"e; deals with the brains of Insectivora.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This 2007 book is an authoritative work written by leading experts unravelling the fundamental role of body size.

Physiology of the Cladocera, Second Edition, is a much-needed summary of foundational information on these increasingly important model organisms.

Workable solutions, and stories of success, for saving the ocean environment.

The studies described here were carried out in the Neuroregul- ation Group, Department of Physiology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

Leeches (Hirudinea): Their Structure, Physiology, Ecology and Embryology presents a concise account of the vast knowledge, particularly in the realm of physiology of the Hirudinea.

Large carnivores include iconic species such as bears, wolves and big cats.

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

Globally, the way the animal production industry copes with infectious diseases is changing.

A comparative overview of the effects of neuropeptides on behavior, examining parallel findings in both humans and non-human animals.

This book covers all types of feline infectious diseases, including infections caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites and fungi.

This book describes the importance of sustainable livestock production from a food security perspective in the changing climate scenario.

Chemical Ecology of Vertebrates, first published in 2006, explores the chemically-mediated interactions between vertebrates and other animals and plants.

This book presents the discoveries made during nearly three decades of research on the parental shield bug, Parastrachia japonensis inhabiting Kyushu Island, Japan.

Written by a respected expert in the field, this new addition to the Self-Assessment Color Review series covers clinical oncology of the dog and cat.

Covering 282 rare species and sub-species (plus records for a further 18 Category D species) found in Britain and Ireland, around 20,000 individual records of rare birds are listed in diary style, with each individual bird appearing on the date on which it was originally found, along with all the other rare birds found on that date between 1958 and 1994.

This book focuses on the first vertebrates to conquer land and their long journey to become fully independent from the water.

Das erfolgreiche Lehrbuch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die biologischen Grundlagen des Verhaltens.

A comprehensive portrayal of the behaviour genetics of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and the methods used in these studies.

Hepatitis viruses research started more than fifty years ago.

A full-color photomicrographic atlas allowing rapid and accurate identification of zebrafish anatomic structures at both the gross and microscopic level.

This completely revamped second edition of Avian Medicine and Surgery includes over 260 all-new colour illustrated cases, with questions and answers fully exploring a breadth of diseases and disorders.

The new and updated edition of this accessible text provides a comprehensive overview of the comparative physiology of animals within an environmental context.

Cognitive Processes of Nonhuman Primates covers the proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium on Cognition, held at Carnegie-Mellon University on March 26 and 27, 1970.

"e;I really don't think this book will ever be surpassed as the 'go-to' clinical ruminant reference for undergraduates, recent grads and vets in mixed practice who do not spend the majority of their time with farm animals.

Intoxication of humans and animals has become increasingly important in recent years as has contamination of the environment by a variety of chemicals.

Originally published in 1979, this book provides students with an example of the ways in which an evolutionary perspective can rephrase and clarify traditional questions and issues in psychology.

Mixed-Species Groups of Animals: Behavior, Community Structure, and Conservation presents a comprehensive discussion on the mixed-species groups of animals, a spectacular and accessible example of the complexity of species interactions.

It is now more than half a century since animal cells first came into regular use in the laboratory.

A superb compilation of reviews from leading experts in the field of Wnt signaling (signaling molecules that regulate cell-to-cell interactions during embryogenesis), volume 17 in the Advances in Developmental Biology series offers 7 chapters, each devoted to a separate area of research on Wnt signaling.

This textbook explores the fundamental qualitative and quantitative aspects of veterinary physiology.