A Saga of Sea Eagles by John A. Love

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary historical past of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical the teeth 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 relations shared the awesome adventure of heavily gazing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their woodland domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the fascinating 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 sleek classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and a superb 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 components underlying lady attitudes towards men. It additionally appears to be like on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among adult females; maternal habit; and the way adult females improve the funding obtained by means of their offspring from others.