Download The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction PDF/eBook
By:Peter Holland
Published on 2011-11-24 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199593217
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Molecular biology has revolutionized our understanding of animals and their evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Holland provides an authoritative summary of the modern view of animal life, its origins, and the new classification resulting from DNA studies.
Download Animal Vocal Communication PDF/eBook
By:Donald H. Owings,Eugene S. Morton
Published on 1998-04-23 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521324687
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This book will be a landmark text for all those interested in animal communication. Animal Vocal Communication explicitly avoids human-centred concepts and approaches and links communication to fundamental biological processes instead. It offers a conceptual framework - assessment/management - that allows us to integrate detailed studies of communication with an understanding of evolutionary perspectives. Self-interested assessment is placed on par with the signal production (management) side of communication, and communication is viewed as reflecting regulatory processes. Signals are used to manage the behaviour of others by exploiting their active assessment. The authors contend that it is this interplay between management and assessment that results in the functioning and evolution of animal communication; it is what communicative behaviour accomplishes that is important, not what information is conveyed.
Download Animal Attractions PDF/eBook
By:Elizabeth Hanson
Published on 2002 by Princeton University Press
ISBN 9780691059921
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|Examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections.|--Cover.
Download Animal Locomotion PDF/eBook
By:Andrew A. Biewener
Published on 2003-06-19 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780198500223
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This work provides a clear foundation for understanding the underlying mechanisms by which animals have evolved to move in their physical environment. It integrates the biomechanics of animal movement with the physiology of animal energetics and the neural control of locomotion.
Download Animal Parasites PDF/eBook
By:Oliver Wilford Olsen
Published on 1986 by Courier Corporation
ISBN 9780486651262
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Unsurpassed, profusely illustrated text details lives, structures of numerous representative parasites of wild and domestic animals of North America. Exercises. Bibliographies.
Download Animal Ecology PDF/eBook
By:Charles S. Elton
Published on 2001-06-01 by University of Chicago Press
ISBN 9780226206394
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Charles Elton was one of the founders of ecology, and his Animal Ecology was one of the seminal works that defined the field. In this book Elton introduced and drew together many principles still central to ecology today, including succession, niche, food webs, and the links between communities and ecosystems, each of which he illustrated with well-chosen examples. Many of Elton's ideas have proven remarkably prescient—for instance, his emphasis on the role climatic changes play in population fluctuations anticipated recent research in this area stimulated by concerns about global warming. For Chicago's reprint of this classic work, ecologists Mathew A. Leibold and J. Timothy Wootton have provided new introductions to each chapter, placing Elton's ideas in historical and scientific context. They trace modern developments in each of the key themes Elton introduced, and provide references to the most current literature. The result will be an important work for ecologists interested in the roots of their discipline, for educated readers looking for a good overview of the field, and for historians of science.
Download Guide for laboratory animal facilities and care PDF/eBook
By:Animal Care Panel. Animal Facilities Standards Committee
Published on 1963 by
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Download Perspectives on Animal Behavior PDF/eBook
By:Judith Goodenough,Betty McGuire,Elizabeth Jakob
Published on 2009-09-22 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9780470045176
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Perspectives on Animal Behavior introduces biologists and psychologists to the scientific reasoning and methodology in the field while also addressing development and mechanisms. Rather than just focusing on evolutionary behavior, the book presents a variety of different perspectives including genetics, neurological, learning, and behavioral ecology. The third edition walks them through experimentation and data analysis, which are critical in the field. It includes classical studies that form the foundation of this field but concentrates on more current work in order to present the thinking and experiments. Biologists and psychologists will then gain a modern understanding of animal behavior.
Download Guide for laboratory animal facilities and care PDF/eBook
By:Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (U.S.) Committee on Revisions of the Guide for Laboratory Animal Facilities and care,Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources (U.S.). Committee on the Guide for Laboratory Animal Facilities and Care,National Institutes of Health (U.S.). Animal Resources Branch
Published on 1968 by
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Download The Encyclopedia of Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare PDF/eBook
By:D. S. Mills,Jeremy N. Marchant-Forde
Published on 2010 by CABI
ISBN 9780851997247
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The practical focus of this authoritative, comprehensive encyclopedia promotes the understanding and improvement of animals' behaviour without compromising welfare. It will be an essential resource for practising veterinarians, researchers and students in zoology and ethology, and for all those working with and interested in animals and their welfare. --Book Jacket.
Download Animal Reintroductions PDF/eBook
By:Mark R. Stanley Price
Published on 1989-09-14 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521344111
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This book explores the reintroduction of the oryx back into the wild from zoo populations.
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By:Claus Nielsen
Published on 2012 by Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 9780199606023
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Animal Evolution is a complete analysis of the evolutionary interrelationships and myriad diversity of the animal kingdom. This new edition brings the subject fully up to date, especially in light of the latest advances in molecular techniques. It also includes new chapters as the result of new systematic understanding.
Download Eckert Animal Physiology PDF/eBook
By:David Randall,Warren W. Burggren,Kathleen French,Roger Eckert
Published on 2002 by Macmillan
ISBN 9780716738633
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This edition highlights the latest breakthroughs in the field and offers new themes. With this edition more student help has been included. (Midwest).
Download The Dominant Animal PDF/eBook
By:Paul R. Ehrlich,Anne H. Ehrlich
Published on 2008-06-30 by Island Press
ISBN 9781597260961
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Examines human evolution, from its beginnings as a hunter-gatherer species to the dominant species on the planet, and argues that the further exploitation of the planet could be the human race's downfall.
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By:Bruce Bagemihl
Published on 1999-01-15 by Macmillan
ISBN 9780312192396
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Documents non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals, covering courtship, pair-bonding, copulation, and co-parenting
Download Alternatives to Animal Testing PDF/eBook
By:Christoph A. Reinhardt
Published on 2008-11-20 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9783527616046
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Opinion leaders in science and politics examine findings and legislation in alternatives to animal testing! Refine, reduce, replace - These are the three demands that scientists have placed upon themselves in their search for alternatives to animal testing. Indeed much interdisciplinary research is being carried on today, and new fields have emerged, such as in-vitro toxicology. The three R's call for new scientific insights. Moreover, validation and acceptance strategies have to be adapted, a process of much ongoing interest and vital concern to the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Researchers need to know exactly what has been achieved and accepted in alternatives to animal testing in science and politics. In this book they have the opportunity to benefit from the knowledge and expertise of leading researchers and influential representatives of national and international regulatory authorities.
Download Principles of Animal Locomotion PDF/eBook
By:R. McNeill Alexander
Published on 2003 by Princeton University Press
ISBN 9780691086781
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How can geckoes walk on the ceiling and basilisk lizards run over water? What are the aerodynamic effects that enable small insects to fly? What are the relative merits of squids' jet-propelled swimming and fishes' tail-powered swimming? Why do horses change gait as they increase speed? What determines our own vertical leap? Recent technical advances have greatly increased researchers' ability to answer these questions with certainty and in detail. This text provides an up-to-date overview of how animals run, walk, jump, crawl, swim, soar, hover, and fly. Excluding only the tiny creatures that use cilia, it covers all animals that power their movements with muscle--from roundworms to whales, clams to elephants, and gnats to albatrosses. The introduction sets out the general rules governing all modes of animal locomotion and considers the performance criteria--such as speed, endurance, and economy--that have shaped their selection. It introduces energetics and optimality as basic principles. The text then tackles each of the major modes by which animals move on land, in water, and through air. It explains the mechanisms involved and the physical and biological forces shaping those mechanisms, paying particular attention to energy costs. Focusing on general principles but extensively discussing a wide variety of individual cases, this is a superb synthesis of current knowledge about animal locomotion. It will be enormously useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and a range of professional biologists, physicists, and engineers.
Download General animal ecology PDF/eBook
By:T. N. Ananthakrishnan,T. R. Viswanathan
Published on 1976 by
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Download Animal Biochromes and Structural Colours PDF/eBook
By:Denis Llewellyn Fox
Published on 1976-01 by Univ of California Press
ISBN 9780520023475
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Download Culture of Animal Cells PDF/eBook
By:R. Ian Freshney
Published on 2015-12-23 by John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 9781118873373
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Since the publication of the sixth edition of this benchmark text, numerous advances in the field have been made – particularly in stem cells, 3D culture, scale-up, STR profiling, and culture of specialized cells. Culture of Animal Cells: A Manual of Basic Technique and Specialized Applications, Seventh Edition is the updated version of this benchmark text, addressing these recent developments in the field as well as the basic skills and protocols. This eagerly awaited edition reviews the increasing diversity of the applications of cell culture and the proliferation of specialized techniques, and provides an introduction to new subtopics in mini-reviews. New features also include a new chapter on cell line authentication with a review of the major issues and appropriate protocols including DNA profiling and barcoding, as well as some new specialized protocols. Because of the continuing expansion of cell culture, and to keep the bulk of the book to a reasonable size, some specialized protocols are presented as supplementary material online. Culture of Animal Cells: A Manual of Basic Technique and Specialized Applications, Seventh Edition provides the most accessible and comprehensive introduction available to the culture and experimental manipulation of animal cells. This text is an indispensable resource for those in or entering the field, including academic research scientists, clinical and biopharmaceutical researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, cell and molecular biology and genetics lab managers, trainees and technicians.
