Zoology and animal sciences

Animals can either have a backbone or they may have none.

Have you ever been to a zoo?

This book may be your only chance to get to meet these endangered animals from around the world.

This book does more than just create the definitions of vulnerable, endangered and critically endangered animals.

Let's talk about the reptiles.

Some animals that lived before are now extinct.

So your child is a master at identifying animals, but can he/she still name them based on their footprints?

Did you know that there are animals equipped with the senses that allow for successful hunting even in the dark?

Oh me, oh my!

Have you ever been to the African Savanna?

Have you ever laid eyes on a blue whale?

This book goes beyond the basic definition of amphibians because it also includes pictures and other examples.

Dogs!

Enter the world of mammals and learn about the characteristics that make them stand out from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Did you know that your pet cat is cousins with the fierce and powerful lion?

What are winged insects?

Do you like bugs?

Centuries ago, when penguins were first encountered by European explorers, they were not thought to be birds but rather a fish-like relative.

Your child probably already knows how to identify common animals found around them.

Virtually make your kids plunge and dive into the deep blue seas and meet the incredible sea mammals down there.

Children are very eager to learn that is why you should present them with all the opportunities to do so.

Mammals are truly amazing!

To adults, the differences are very obvious.

Do dolphin use words to communicate with each other?

The wilderness is a dangerous place for small animals.

The bone marrow transplant is a complex medical procedure performed by skilled personnel.

The grasslands is home to different kinds of wildlife.

What animals live in the harsh conditions of the Sahara?

Who lives in the rainforest?

Let's meet the animals in the wild side of Africa, the Serengeti.

It's trivia time!

Let's learn about invertebrates!

Amphibians aren't that bad once you get to know them.

It's one thing to know that a bird is a bird, but it's a whole new level to know that that bird is a parrot and the other is a woodpecker.

Let's raise smart kids, and let's do that with one educational book at a time.

What do you know about mammals?

This volume examines the rise and decline of racial science and its relationship to the political and social imposition of Jim Crow in the American South, a racialized code of laws grounded upon an inherently racist and prejudicial pseudoscience.

Due to the phylogenetic relationship and close genetic and biological similarities with humans, non-human primates (NHP) are regularly used in biomedical and behavioural research.

This book presents five chapters describing the characteristics and behaviors of Bubalus bubalis, or domestic water buffalo.

Crayfish are one of the most iconic freshwater crustacean groups of the world.

In Waterton Lakes National Park, located in southwest Alberta, Canada, under-road crossing structures were installed in 2008 to protect a population of long-toed salamander (Ambystoma macrodactylum) at Linnet Lake from mortality during breeding migrations that intersected with the park's entrance road.

The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of each, gained from the highest authorities obtainable.

This book on the history, breeding, management and diseases of domestic animals is a snapshot of American animal husbandry around the year 1850.

Sheep Diseases: Signs, Symptoms and Prevention first addresses a comprehensive review of sheep mastitis.

Chimpanzee Behaviour: Recent Understandings from Captivity and the Forest brings diverse topics together in one volume.

The Zoological Guide to Crustacea opens by providing an update on the cave crustacean decapods from Mexico, because in the last thirty years several species have been described.

Mosquitos: Species, Distribution and Disease opens with a discussion on the potential use of plant-derived saponins as a natural larvicide to help prevent and control disease outbreaks in mosquito-infested areas.

Cetaceans are one of the most unknown groups in the animal kingdom.

This book presents, in two parts, a review concerning the use of Rattus norvegicus as a model for the study of neurological disorders and oncological diseases (mammary cancer).

Killing for Sport was previously published in 1915 at a time when widespread attention was being drawn to questions concerning the land, it was especially fitting that the part played by the sportsman should not be overlooked, and that not only the cruelty, but the wastefulness of the practice of breeding and killing animals for mere amusement, should be made clear.