Category: Zoology

By Uwe Zuppke,Jürgen Berg

Die Landschaft in der zone um die Lutherstadt Wittenberg weist eine reichhaltige Naturausstattung auf. Die Überflutungsaue der Elbe mit ihren ausgedehnten Grünländern, Altwässern und naturnahen Auwäldern, die großen, geschlossenen Waldgebiete der Dübener Heide, Annaburger Heide und des Flämings sowie größere unzerschnittene Offenlandschaften der Glücksburger und Oranienbaumer Heide bieten einer artenreichen Säugetierfauna geeignete Lebensräume.
Im Ergebnis von über 60jährigen eigenen Beobachtungen und unter Einbeziehung der Beobachtungen zahlreicher Jäger und Naturfreunde aus der quarter sowie der Auswertung von Veröffentlichungen wird eine zusammenfassende Darstellung und Beschreibung der in dieser sector vorkommenden Säugetierarten gegeben.
Diese soll anregen, auch die Säugetiere und ihre Lebensräume als ein unersetzliches Naturgut zu betrachten, das der menschlichen Gesellschaft erhalten bleiben muss.

Show description

Read more

By Tim Caro

From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to recognized authors resembling Rudyard Kipling in his Just So Stories, many folks have requested, “Why do zebras have stripes?” there are various causes, yet beforehand infrequently any were heavily addressed or perhaps verified. In Zebra Stripes, Tim Caro takes readers via a decade of painstaking fieldwork studying the importance of black-and-white striping and, after systematically brushing aside each speculation for those markings with new info, he arrives at a stunning end: zebra markings are nature’s security opposed to biting fly annoyance.

Popular causes for stripes diversity from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, or even temperature rules. it's a severe problem to check those proposals on huge animals residing within the wild, yet utilizing a mix of cautious observations, uncomplicated box experiments, comparative details, and common sense, Caro is ready to weigh up the professionals and cons of every suggestion. Eventually—driven by way of experiments exhibiting that biting flies steer clear of touchdown on striped surfaces, observations that striping is such a lot severe the place biting flies are plentiful, and information of zebras’ susceptibility to biting flies and vulnerability to the ailments that flies carry—Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an model to thwart biting fly assault. not only a story of 1 scientist’s quest to resolve a vintage secret of biology, Zebra Stripes can be a testomony to the large price of longitudinal study in behavioral ecology, demonstrating how remark, test, and comparative learn can jointly reshape our knowing of the ordinary world.

Show description

Read more

By David Grazian

Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined hearth hoses. Giraffes banquet on celebratory birthday tarts crowned with carrots rather than candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl between metal timber, whereas owls watch lively cartoons on outdated tv units. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari in the course of the modern zoo, alive with its many contradictions and unusual wonders.

Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a couple of muddy paintings boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, mom and dad and tots, and the opposite human primates that make up the zoo's social international. He indicates that during a big shift clear of their unlucky pasts, American zoos this day emphasize naturalistic shows teeming with lush and immersive landscapes, breeding courses for endangered animals, and enrichment actions for his or her captive creatures. In doing so, zoos blur the imaginary obstacles we often use to split tradition from nature, people from animals, and civilization from the wild. whilst, zoos deal with a barren region of competing priorities—animal care, schooling, clinical learn, and recreation—all whereas trying to function facilities for conservation within the wake of the present environmental and climate-change drawback. the realm of the zoo displays how we venture our personal prejudices and wishes onto the animal country, and make investments nature with that means and sentiment.

A revealing portrayal of comedian animals, thrilled young children, and feisty zookeepers, American Zoo is a notable close-up exploration of a vintage cultural attraction.

Show description

Read more

By Corrado Battisti,Gianluca Poeta,Giuliano Fanelli

This booklet represents an introductory assessment of disturbance ecology and hazard research, supplying schematic techniques and methods beneficial for paintings on websites which are suffering from the effect of human activities. it's geared toward conservation and environmental practitioners, who will locate suggestions for selecting equipment and techniques whilst there are conflicts among the ordinary parts and human task. it's also addressed to scholars of utilized ecology, surroundings administration, land-use making plans and environmental influence review. It discusses a couple of issues lined within the courses of many collage classes on the topic of simple ecology and ecology of disturbance, the latter constituting a box of significant curiosity due to its implications and repercussions in utilized territorial technology.
The booklet is split into elements: the 1st makes a speciality of the theoretical and disciplinary framework of the ecology of disturbance, whereas the second one is dedicated to the research of anthropogenic threats. This, specifically, discusses the latest procedure, which makes use of a traditional nomenclature to permit a coarse-grained quantification and goal review of chance influence on diversified environmental elements. Such an technique allows the comparability of hierarchically various occasions and, for that reason, is helping outline the priorities for administration and conservation strategies.

Show description

Read more

By Leo M. Sreebny,Julia Meyer

Salivary Glands and their Secretions covers the complaints of the convention held on the collage of Washington in Seattle, Washington, united states The ebook specializes in the constitution and features of secreting organs and the composition, mechanism, and regulate of secretions.
The choice first studies the comparative features of the constitution and features of the salivary glands; electron microscopy of triggered alterations within the salivary glands of rats; and the motion of thyroid and adrenal glands at the submaxillary glands of mice. The ebook then takes a glance at hormonal affects at the cytology and body structure of salivary glands and hormones and inanition.
The e-book ponders on reviews at the body structure of rat and mouse submaxillary glands and hormonal keep an eye on of the nerve progress issue content material within the submaxillary glands of mice. The textual content additionally examines imperative anxious illustration of salivary secretion, secretory nerves of the salivary glands, and alterations in salivary movement produced by way of adaptations in fluid and electrolyte stability.
The choice is a invaluable resource of knowledge for readers attracted to the constitution and capabilities of the salivary glands.

Show description

Read more

By Reha Erzurumlu,William Guido,Zoltan Molnar

improvement & Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus & Cortex is predicated on a 2-day symposium provided for the 1st time at SFN 2003. The symposium taken with the most recent findings and concepts, targeting visible and somatosensory thalamus and neocortex in rodents and carnivores and sensible imaging experiences in constructing and getting older human neocortex, in addition to plastic alterations after spinal wire damage. This quantity will disguise contemporary advances in figuring out sensory thalamic and cortical functionality, association, and plasticity. Chapters will conceal a large variety of ways from unmarried mobilephone recordings to viral gene move to transgenic and knockout mouse versions to useful imaging in human cortex. The textual content is meant to supply an replace at the multitude of technical and experimental techniques in figuring out the improvement and plasticity of the mammalian sensory thalamus and neocortex and supply an artificial theoretical framework for destiny studies.

Show description

Read more

By Islam Aminul

The booklet covers the undergraduate and postgraduate syllabi of the entire significant universities for the industrial zoology direction. every one bankruptcy provides the dialogue of the subjects in a systematic approach, observed with suitable diagrams and photographs. each one bankruptcy is by way of a collection of brief, descriptive and multiple-choice questions which heavily keep on with the developments of questions requested in measure examinations in addition to aggressive examinations. It additionally includes a set of key issues that may aid the scholars to continue the training. fresh info and learn within the respective fields of financial zoology at the one hand will fulfill the scholars and however will turn out a instruction manual for the study students. preserving in brain the multidisciplinary nature of monetary zoology, the biology of a few of the typical disease-causing organisms and bionomics of the arthropod vectors that are in detail linked to the ailments were included in addition to the most issues like sericulture, lac tradition, apiculture, chook, fisheries, dairy technology, and so forth.

Key Features:

• Contents are to the purpose, brand new, and supplied with enough illustrations

• each one bankruptcy is via brief, descriptive and multiple-choice questions

• A thesaurus is supplied to assist the scholars clutch the quick questions and that means of the technical words

• features a huge variety of questions compatible for instruction for aggressive examinations

Show description

Read more

By Richard Goss

The body structure of development makes a speciality of the physiological mechanisms underlying the expansion of organs and tissues similar to the pores and skin, connective tissues, bone and cartilage, blood cells, and the guts. The atrophy and hypertrophy of muscle, adaptive plasticity of the fearful procedure, and neural rules of salivary glands also are explored.
Comprised of 24 chapters, this booklet opens with an outline of the character of development, how you can degree progress, and theories of development. The dialogue then turns to the renewal of pores and skin; the expansion of connective tissues equivalent to collagen and keloids; actual rules of bone progress and cartilage regrowth; and turnover of blood cells. the subsequent chapters concentrate on the hyperlink among high blood pressure and middle development; growth of arteries and veins; muscle atrophy and hypertrophy; and intraocular rules of lens improvement. The influence of lactation at the development of the mammary glands is additionally thought of, besides liver degeneration and experimental legislation of the testis.
This monograph is meant for physiologists, developmental biologists, and scholars of histology.

Show description

Read more

By Lorraine Daston,Gregg Mitman

Is anthropomorphism a systematic sin? Scientists and animal researchers regularly warn opposed to "animal stories," and distinction rigorous factors and remark to facile or even fanciful projections approximately animals. but many folks, scientists and researchers incorporated, proceed to determine animals as people and people as animals. As this cutting edge new assortment demonstrates, people use animals to go beyond the confines of self and species; in addition they enlist them to represent, dramatize, and light up features of people' event and fable. people merge with animals in tales, motion pictures, philosophical speculations, and clinical treatises. of their functionality with people on many levels and in numerous methods, animals stream us to think.

From Victorian vivisectionists to elephant conservation, from historic Indian mythology to puppy possession within the modern usa, our knowing of either animals and what it capacity to be human has been formed by way of anthropomorphic considering. The members to Thinking with Animalsexplore the how and why of anthropomorphism, drawing cognizance to its wealthy and sundry makes use of. renowned students within the fields of anthropology, ethology, heritage, and philosophy, in addition to filmmakers and photographers, take a better examine how deeply and generally methods of imagining animals have remodeled people and animals alike.

Essays within the booklet examine the altering styles of anthropomorphism throughout diverse time sessions and settings, in addition to their transformative results, either figuratively and actually, upon animals, people, and their interactions. studying how anthropomorphic considering "works" in quite a number various contexts, individuals demonstrate the ways that anthropomorphism seems to be remarkably worthy: it could possibly advertise strong well-being and spirits, enlist aid in political explanations, promote items throughout obstacles of tradition of and nationality, crystallize and advance social values, and delay a philosophical reflect to the human predicament.

Show description

Read more

By Michio Nakamura,Kazuhiko Hosaka,Noriko Itoh,Koichiro Zamma

long term ecological learn experiences are infrequent and helpful assets, relatively once they are as completely documented because the Mahale Mountain Chimpanzee venture in Tanzania. Directed through Toshisada Nishida from 1965 until eventually 2011, the venture maintains to yield new and engaging findings approximately our closest neighbour species. In a becoming tribute to Nishida's contribution to technology, this ebook brings jointly fifty years of analysis into one encyclopaedic quantity. along formerly unpublished information, the editors comprise new translations of jap writings in the course of the booklet to carry formerly inaccessible paintings to non-Japanese audio system. The historical past and ecology of the location, chimpanzee behaviour and biology, and ecological administration are all addressed via firsthand bills by means of Mahale researchers. The authors spotlight long term adjustments in behaviour, the place attainable, and draw comparisons with different chimpanzee websites throughout Africa to supply an integrative view of chimpanzee learn today.

Show description

Read more