Animal husbandry

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

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

Óscar Caso, veterinario y ganadero, presenta en este libro una reflexión y una defensa necesaria de un sector que existe desde hace miles de años, la ganadería, cuya imagen ha sido mortalmente atacada, lo que agrava el problema de la despoblación del mundo rural y genera otros muchos e importantes daños.

This book discusses the biology, breeding, care, and management of camels, with a focus on camels from Pakistan.

This book discusses the biology, breeding, care, and management of camels, with a focus on camels from Pakistan.

The Veterinary Psychiatry of Cats introduces veterinary behavioral medicine and veterinary psychiatry using the domestic cat as its model.

This book explores how we can solve the urgent problem of optimizing the use of variable, uncertain but finite fisheries resources while maintaining sustainability from a marine-ecosystem conservation perspective.

This book provides an overview of the induction mechanism of imposex caused by organotin compounds in gastropods, as well as fundamental information on the physiology and biochemistry of reproduction in mollusks.

This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama.

Carrion, or dead animal matter, is an inherent component of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems worldwide, and is exploited by a wide diversity of organisms from different trophic levels, including microbes, arthropods and vertebrates.

The population of the Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) has drastically declined; this Asian leopard subspecies has disappeared from some parts of its former range.

Integrated Population Models: Theory and Ecological Applications with R and JAGS is the first book on integrated population models, which constitute a powerful framework for combining multiple data sets from the population and the individual levels to estimate demographic parameters, and population size and trends.

Framed by the authors personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present.

A how-to book on an exhilarating outdoor activity and a unique meditation on the pleasures of the natural worldFollowing the Wild Bees is a delightful foray into the pastime of bee hunting, an exhilarating outdoor activity that used to be practiced widely but which few people know about today.

Emerging Issues in Climate Smart Livestock Production: Biological Tools and Techniques furnishes a detailed reference on livestock sustainability and the role of biotechnology for creating more sustainable livestock production systems.

This is a special 50th year anniversary volume of Advances in the Study of Behavior with contributions from past and present editors and authors of the serial.

Reproductive Biology of the Crocodylia is based on over 40 years of research on global crocodiles, alligators and caimans.

Advances in Pig Welfare analyzes current topical issues in the key areas of pig welfare assessment and improvement.

Animal Behavior, Third Edition covers animal behavior from its neurological underpinnings to the importance of behavior in conservation.

This series of volumes represents a comprehensive and integrated treatment of reproduction in vertebrates from fishes of all sorts through mammals.

Sexual Selection: Perspectives and Models from the Neotropics presents new sexual selection research based upon neotropical species.

Among animals used in research, teaching and testing, mice are now widely recognized as the most important model for human diseases and disorders.

A guide for backyard beekeepers who have advanced into their second year with top bar hives.

Hatching a sustainable life with heritage poultry Houdan.

Guinea fowl, one of the domesticated galliforms birds, is important not only for economic reasons, but also for academic reasons.

Historically, whenever tuna was hauled ashore, the sounds of battle were never far away.

Banana Peels Valorization: Sustainable and Eco-friendly Applications provides a global overview of world production, physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of Banana Peels and the various pathways for their valorization, considering the advantages, disadvantages and factors impacting on each way of valorization.

Many wild animals in human care live longer than their wild counterparts because of modern care and wellbeing programmes, leading to a growing demographic of ageing animals.

Descubra el fascinante mundo de las razas de caballos en esta guía detallada que abarca más de 80 razas diferentes de todo el mundo.

Originally published in English in 1957 this book quickly became a classic of comparative agricultural studies.

Advances in Animal Genomics provides an outstanding collection of integrated strategies involving traditional and modern - omics (structural, functional, comparative and epigenomics) approaches and genomics-assisted breeding methods which animal biotechnologists can utilize to dissect and decode the molecular and gene regulatory networks involved in the complex quantitative yield and stress tolerance traits in livestock.

Banana Peels Valorization: Sustainable and Eco-friendly Applications provides a global overview of world production, physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of Banana Peels and the various pathways for their valorization, considering the advantages, disadvantages and factors impacting on each way of valorization.

This book provides updated information on the current concepts in bovine reproduction.

This book provides a detailed overview of ethical omnivorism, as well as the philosophical foundations of this movement and diet.

This book describes the fundamentals of microfluidics and fabrication methods of microfluidic devices that can be adopted for animal-assisted reproduction.

Fisheries resources are an important component of natural resources.

This book is an important addition to the knowledge of lobster research.

This book is a collection of comprehensive and latest information on all aspects of vaccination in fish and shellfish.

This book provides updated information on the current concepts in bovine reproduction.

This contributed book is based on the current status of biodiversity in India, issues and challenges faced by the authorities involved in conservation efforts, and the imperative role of various direct and indirect stakeholders in biodiversity conservation.

This book is a comprehensive guide for veterinary and humanitarian professionals to plan emergency responses for the care and welfare of animals.

Aquareoviruses cause infection in bony fish and shellfish and thus, constitute a significant threat to aquaculture industries worldwide.

This book is dedicated to present different aspects of reproductive physiology and molecular endocrinology of commercially important as well as potential aquaculture fish species.

Understanding the reproductive physiology and endocrinology of fishes is essential for captive maturation and seed production in the field of aquaculture.

This book offers an introduction to aquaculture sciences and fisheries, discussing the concepts and basic characteristics of fisheries, fishery resources and the related industries, as well as the status of fisheries in various countries around the globe.

Seas and oceans cover 71 % of the earth's surface and they are home to 80% of all life found on the planet .

This book gives an overview of the diverse marine fauna and flora of Japan and includes practical guides for investigating the biology and ecology of marine organisms.