Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories by Peter Atkins

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary heritage of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals this day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his family members shared the outstanding adventure of heavily looking at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the desirable drawings he created, shape the center of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s lifestyles with owls.

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries In his smooth classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and a superb horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in lady vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different elements underlying lady attitudes towards men. It additionally appears on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among women; maternal habit; and the way adult females increase the funding bought by way of their offspring from others.