By Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe

ISBN-10: 0643062572

ISBN-13: 9780643062573

ISBN-10: 064309220X

ISBN-13: 9780643092204

Joint winner of the 2005 Whitley Medal. incorporated in selection Magazine's 2006 amazing educational Titles record. during the last part a century examine has printed that marsupials – faraway from being ‘second type’ mammals – have variations for specific methods of lifestyles relatively equivalent to their placental opposite numbers. regardless of lengthy separate evolution, there are awesome similarities within which marsupials have solved the demanding situations of dwelling in such environments as deserts, alpine snowfields or tropical rainforests. a few can live to tell the tale grass, a few on pollen and others on leaves; a few can drift, a few can swim and others hop with striking potency. In lifetime of Marsupials, one of many world’s top specialists explores the biology and evolution of this strange crew – with their amazing variety of kinds around the globe – in Australia, New Guinea and South the United States. FeaturesWritten by way of a number one specialist on marsupial biology Covers all marsupials in Australia, New Guinea and South the United States color images of 39 species

By Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Stuart G. Shanker, Talbot J. Taylor

ISBN-10: 0195109864

ISBN-13: 9780195109863

ISBN-10: 019514712X

ISBN-13: 9780195147124

ISBN-10: 1423741315

ISBN-13: 9781423741312

Present primate learn has yielded lovely effects that not just threaten our underlying assumptions in regards to the cognitive and communicative skills of nonhuman primates, but additionally convey into query what it skill to be human. on the leading edge of this study, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh lately has completed a systematic step forward of striking proportions. Her paintings with Kanzi, a laboratory-reared bonobo, has resulted in Kanzi's acquisition of linguistic and cognitive abilities just like these of a and a part year-old human baby.
Apes, Language, and the Human Mind skillfully combines a desirable narrative of the Kanzi study with incisive severe research of the research's broader linguistic, mental, and anthropological implications. the 1st a part of the publication offers a close, own account of Kanzi's infancy, adolescence, and upbringing, whereas the second one half addresses the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological concerns raised via the Kanzi examine. The authors speak about the problem to the principles of recent cognitive technological know-how provided by way of the Kanzi learn; the equipment wherein we signify and assessment the talents of either primates and people; and the consequences which ape language learn has for the learn of the evolution of human language. guaranteed to be arguable, this interesting new quantity deals an intensive revision of the sciences of language and brain, and may be vital examining for all these operating within the fields of primatology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy of brain, and cognitive and developmental psychology.

By Raman Sukumar

ISBN-10: 0195107780

ISBN-13: 9780195107784

This booklet pulls jointly the on hand details on either Indian and African elephants, synthesizing the biology, ecology, habit, evolution, and conservation of elephants and masking the background of human interactions with elephants. there's no different braod therapy of the topic.

By Ronald M. Nowak

ISBN-10: 0801880335

ISBN-13: 9780801880339

Although they're extremely smart, ruthless predators, carnivores are more and more infrequent. From the dwarf mongoose to the polar undergo, carnivores are right now revered and misunderstood, invoking either worry and interest within the people with whom they proportion their international. Ronald M. Nowak celebrates those attention-grabbing mammals in Walker's Carnivores of the World. This entire consultant, that includes 225 illustrations, covers the world's 8 terrestrial households of carnivores. every one established account contains clinical and customary names, quantity and distribution of species, actual attributes, measurements, looking and social job, replica, habitat, inhabitants dynamics, toughness, and standing of threatened species. A thought-provoking assessment via David W. Macdonald and Roland W. Kays is filled with result of the newest box and laboratory study on issues starting from evolutionary historical past to the adaptive price of fur styles. Emphasizing the interaction of social lifestyles, morphology, and predatory habit, it offers an updated landscape of the world's carnivores.

By Amanda Rees

ISBN-10: 0226707113

ISBN-13: 9780226707112

ISBN-10: 0226707121

ISBN-13: 9780226707129

Infanticide within the flora and fauna could be a comparatively infrequent occasion, yet as Amanda Rees exhibits, it has greatly major outcomes. pointed out within the Nineteen Sixties as a phenomenon helpful of research, infanticide had, by way of the Seventies, turn into the focal point of significant controversy. The recommendation, by means of Sarah Hrdy, that it would be the result of an developed procedure meant to maximise an individual’s reproductive good fortune sparked livid disputes among scientists, disagreements that experience persevered right down to the current day.

Meticulously tracing the historical past of the infanticide debates, and drawing on huge interviews with box scientists, Rees investigates key theoretical and methodological subject matters that experience characterised box reviews of apes and monkeys within the 20th century. As a close examine of the clinical strategy and its program to box examine, The Infanticide Controversy sheds new gentle on our realizing of medical perform, focusing specifically at the demanding situations of operating in “natural” environments, the connection among objectivity and interpretation in an observational technology, and the influence of the general public profile of primatology at the improvement of primatological study. most significantly, it additionally considers the broader importance that the learn of box technological know-how has in a interval while the ecological result of out of control human interventions in common platforms have gotten ever extra glaring.

By Sonia Benson; Rob Nagel

ISBN-10: 0787676187

ISBN-13: 9780787676186

ISBN-10: 0787676195

ISBN-13: 9780787676193

By Barbara A. Schmidt-French

ISBN-10: 0813545870

ISBN-13: 9780813545875

ISBN-10: 0813545889

ISBN-13: 9780813545882

By DK Publishing

ISBN-10: 0756630185

ISBN-13: 9780756630188

A photographic paperback sequence designed to introduce the interesting international of animals and the way they advance. during this informative and hugely visible sequence, attractive step by step images permits young children to work out a butterfly emerge from its cocoon and unfold its wings, or see what occurs whilst an egg hatches and a chick emerges. every one publication comes with a sticky label sheet jam-packed with adorable photos of the animals featured within the e-book.

By Jon Aars, Nicholas J. Lunn, Visit Amazon's Andrew E. Derocher Page, search results, Learn about Author Central, Andrew E. Derocher,

ISBN-10: 2831709598

ISBN-13: 9782831709598

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By Duane D. Quiatt, Jun'Ichiro Itani

ISBN-10: 0870813137

ISBN-13: 9780870813139

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