The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II (Advances in by Arthur N. Popper,Anthony Hawkins

Mammal Teeth

During this special publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal the teeth strains the evolutionary heritage of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates turned 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 impressive adventure of heavily looking at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the eye-catching 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 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 components 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 ladies; maternal habit; and the way ladies improve the funding obtained via their offspring from others.