Fish on the Move: Fishing Between Discourses and Borders in by Nataša Rogelja,Alenka Janko Spreizer

Mammal Teeth

During this particular booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth lines the evolutionary background of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

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

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl 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 girl 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 ladies; maternal habit; and the way women improve the funding acquired by means of their offspring from others.