Zoopoetics: Animals and the Making of Poetry by Aaron M. Moe

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel strains the evolutionary heritage of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical teeth of early vertebrates turned 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 kinfolk shared the outstanding event of heavily watching 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 desirable 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 lady Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in girl vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different components underlying woman attitudes towards men. It additionally appears to be like 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 improve the funding got by way of their offspring from others.