Wild Otters: Predation and Populations by Hans Kruuk

Mammal Teeth

During this exact ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary background 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 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 relatives shared the outstanding adventure of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the beautiful 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 smooth 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 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 adult females increase the funding got by means of their offspring from others.