Salivary Glands and Their Secretions: Proceedings of an by Leo M. Sreebny,Julia Meyer

Mammal Teeth

During this special publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their starting place via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary background of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals this day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his relations shared the striking adventure of heavily gazing 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 attractive 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 glossy classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and an excellent horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl 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 to be 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 got via their offspring from others.