The Woodhen: A Flightless Island Bird Defying Extinction by Clifford Frith

Mammal Teeth

During this certain e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their beginning via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth 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 easy conical enamel of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals this day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kinfolk shared the notable adventure of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within 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 sleek classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and an outstanding horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of lady Vertebrates makes a speciality of 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 on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding obtained by way of their offspring from others.