Greater Sage-Grouse: Ecology and Conservation of a Landscape by Steve Knick,John W. Connelly

Mammal Teeth

During this exact e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present range. Mammal the teeth strains the evolutionary background of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part 1000000000 years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy 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 relatives shared the outstanding event of heavily looking at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the beautiful drawings he created, shape the center 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 a good horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in woman vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different elements 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 women; maternal habit; and the way ladies improve the funding obtained via their offspring from others.