Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour and Conservation by Anne Innis Dagg

Mammal Teeth

During this specified publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal tooth strains the evolutionary heritage of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical the teeth of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his family members shared the striking event of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within 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 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 exceptional horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of woman 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 platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among adult females; maternal habit; and the way adult females increase the funding obtained by means of their offspring from others.