Animals and Public Health: Why Treating Animals Better is by A. Akhtar

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal tooth lines the evolutionary heritage of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel of early vertebrates grew to become 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 relatives shared the outstanding adventure of heavily gazing 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 appealing drawings he created, shape the guts of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s existence 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 glossy classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and an excellent 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 woman attitudes towards men. It additionally appears to be like on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among ladies; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding obtained by way of their offspring from others.