Two Oceans: A guide to the marine life of southern Africa by George Branch,Charles Griffiths,Margo Branch,Lynnath Beckley

Mammal Teeth

During this certain publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal the teeth strains the evolutionary historical past of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals this present day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kinfolk shared the notable adventure of heavily gazing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the eye-catching drawings he created, shape the guts 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 smooth classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and a very good horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in woman vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different components 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 pageant among ladies; maternal habit; and the way women improve the funding obtained by way of their offspring from others.