Invertebrate Zoology A Laboratory Manual by Alan R. Holyoak

Mammal Teeth

During this detailed ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary heritage of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kin shared the amazing event of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the eye-catching 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 woman Vertebrates specializes in the evolution of reproductive habit in girl vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different elements underlying lady attitudes towards men. It additionally seems to be on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among adult females; maternal habit; and the way ladies increase the funding acquired via their offspring from others.