Mites of Australia: A Checklist and Bibliography (Monographs by RB Halliday

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal enamel strains the evolutionary heritage of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals this day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his relatives shared the striking 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 within which the writer recorded his observations, and the fascinating 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 specializes in 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 appears to be like on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way adult females increase the funding obtained by way of their offspring from others.