Zoology and animal sciences

This work examines the cognitive capacity of great apes in order to better understand early man and the importance of memory in the evolutionary process.

This book includes descriptive keys for identifying every stage of all the species of ticks reported in Europe and northern Africa.

This book gathers a representative sample of the relevant knowledge related to the ecology, behavior, and conservation of birds in urban Latin America.

This book covers pot-pollen-the other product, besides honey, stored in cerumen pots by Meliponini.

The Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869 is the most widely farmed sturgeon species.

The biology of the Siberian sturgeon, Acipenser baerii Brandt 1869, has become a very attractive subject of investigation for biologists since the 1980s.

Bridging the fields of ecosystem science and landscape ecology, this book integrates Dr.

This book provides an overview on the basics in insect molecular biology and presents the most recent developments in several fields such as insect genomics and proteomics, insect pathology and applications of insect derived compounds in modern research.

This book will help beekeepers understand the fundamentals of beekeeping science.

This stimulating and comprehensive collection brings together multiple perspectives on the topic of personality in nonhuman animals-linking historical perspectives, theoretical approaches, methods, and cutting-edge discoveries.

This book discusses the beneficial and harmful effects of insects and explains their development and significance for biodiversity.

The volume is designed to provide an integrated overview of the results from the last fifteen years of research on Chromogranins in relation to cell biology, physiology and biomedicine.

Intended as a guide for wildlife managers and ecotourism operators, as well as interested ecotourists, this book addresses the biological principles governing how ecotourism affects wildlife.

Documenting and understanding intricate ecological interactions involving insects is a central need in conservation, and the specialised and specific nature of many such associations is displayed in this book.

This book presents a comprehensive biological and ecological information about owls in the neotropic area.

This book will take you on an exciting journey made up of texts and images.

This book gathers the most recent research findings on ecology and conservation of marine vertebrates in Latin America, making use of high technological methods to show readers the diversity of the marine research that has been conducted in these countries over the last decades.

This book encompasses the body of available scientific information on the notothenioid fish Pleuragramma antarctica commonly known as Antarctic silverfish.

This book provides an update on the phylogeny, systematics and ecology of horses in South America based on data provided over the past three decades.

This book examines the long-term fate of invasive species by detailing examples of invaders from different zoological and botanical taxa from various places around the world.

Chimpanzees, including bonobos and common chimpanzees, are our closest living relatives.

This book discusses the increase in number and capacity of wind farms in Germany and how this is affecting birds of prey.

The book deeply focuses on the epidemiology, diagnostics, therapy and molecular basis of canine and feline dementia or cognitive dysfunction syndrome.

Full of drama, dedication, and humor, this book narrates the author's often frustrating experiences working as an experimental physicist in Cuba after the disintegration of the so-called socialist block.

This book presents a selection of new insights in understanding and mitigating impacts on wildlife and their habitats.

The present book analyses critically the tripartite mimicry model (consisting of the mimic, model and receiver species) and develops semiotic tools for comparative analysis.

Many endangered species of wild animals are managed in captivity through studbooks.

The work summarizes the current knowledge regarding the controlled reproduction of an emerging aquaculture species, the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis).

This book highlights the most significant diseases for humans and their dogs, cats and horses.

This book proposes a new way to think about evolution.

This book uses the spiral shape as a key to a multitude of strange and seemingly disparate stories about art, nature, science, mathematics, and the human endeavour.

This textbook focuses on the most important parasites affecting dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, rabbits, rodents, birds, fishes, reptiles and bees.

The Southern Oceans including Antarctic regions are peculiar and very sensitive water biotopes, where animal life and species interrelations are only poorly investigated.

This comprehensive book thoroughly covers the field of stinging insect allergy; addressing all clinical aspects, including diagnosis and therapeutic recommendations.

This book reviews the structure of different biological adhesives and the mechanisms by which they achieve interfacial adhesion, cohesive strength, and fracture toughness.

Dr.

This book surveys attachment structures and adhesive secretions occurring in this class of animals and discusses the relationships between structure, properties, and function in the context of evolutionary trends, and biomimetic potential.

The Author of this new volume on ant communication demonstrates that information theory is a valuable tool for studying the natural communication of animals.

This unique book contains not only a comprehensive up-to-date summary of the achievements made in all areas of Nematology in South Africa over more than half a century, but it also combines this rather technical part with an insiders narrative of how Nematology started and developed.

This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship.

The central focus of this book is the avian respiratory system.

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available.

This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may contribute in our understanding of mechanisms involved in stress adaptation.

This book will cover several topics to elaborate how proteomics may enhance agricultural productivity.

  ?

?

This book presents visual plant defenses (camouflage, mimicry and aposematism via coloration, morphology and even movement) against herbivores.

This book discusses canine and feline skin cytology and the importance of this diagnostic tool in interpreting skin lesions.

This edited volume is a timely and comprehensive summary of the New Zealand lizard fauna.

This textbook provides a collection of case studies in paleoanthropology demonstrating the method and limitations of science.