High Moon Over the Amazon by Patricia Chapple Wright

Mammal Teeth

During this distinct e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their beginning via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal enamel strains the evolutionary background of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical the teeth of early vertebrates grew to become 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 kinfolk shared the extraordinary event of heavily gazing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their woodland domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the desirable drawings he created, shape the center 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 a superb horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of woman 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 elements underlying girl attitudes towards men. It additionally appears on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among adult females; maternal habit; and the way adult females improve the funding bought by way of their offspring from others.