Animals and Sociology (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics by K. Peggs

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel strains the evolutionary background of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical the teeth of early vertebrates turned 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 family members shared the outstanding event of heavily looking at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the attractive drawings he created, shape the guts 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 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 girl Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in lady vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different components underlying girl attitudes towards men. It additionally seems to be on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding acquired by way of their offspring from others.