Rodents of Sub-Saharan Africa by Ara / Taylor, Peter J. / Denys, Christiane / Cotterill,

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their beginning via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth lines the evolutionary historical past of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical teeth of early vertebrates grew to become 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 relations shared the extraordinary adventure of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the alluring 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 glossy 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 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 lady attitudes towards men. It additionally seems on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among adult females; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding bought by means of their offspring from others.