Secrets of Snakes: The Science Beyond the Myths, Steen David A.

Автор: Brierley, Gerry
Название: Secrets of hope the honey bee
ISBN: 1916055311 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781916055315
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Автор: Mattison Christopher
Название: The new encyclopedia of snakes
ISBN: 069113295X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691132952
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Organized thematically, this book addresses the origin and evolution of snakes; their morphology and function; how and where they live; their methods of feeding, defense, and reproduction; their taxonomy and classification; and their interaction with humans. It also features 200 photographs of snakes from around the world along with fact boxes.

Автор: Howkins Adrian, Orsi Jared, Fiege Mark
Название: National Parks Beyond the Nation: Global Perspectives on "America`s Best Idea "
ISBN: 0806152257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806152257
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The idea of a national park was an American invention of historic consequences marking the beginning of a worldwide movement,"" the U.S. National Park Service asserts in its 2006 Management Policies. National Parks beyond the Nation brings together the work of fifteen scholars and writers to reveal the tremendous diversity of the global national park experience - an experience sometimes influencing, sometimes influenced by, and sometimes with no reference whatever to the United States. Writer and historian Wallace Stegner once called national parks ""America's best idea."" The contributors to this volume use that exceptionalist claim as a starting point for thinking about an international history of national parks. They explore the historical interactions and influences - intellectual, political, and material - within and between national park systems in Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia, Antarctica, Brazil, and other countries. What is the role of science in the history of these preserves? Of politics? What purposes do they serve: Conservation? Education? Reverence toward nature? Tourist pleasure? People have thought differently about national parks at different times and in different places; and neat physical boundaries have been disrupted by wandering animals, human movements, the spread of disease, and climate change. Viewing parks around the world, at various scales and across national frontiers, these essays offer a panoptic view of the common and contrasting cultural and environmental features of national parks worldwide. If national parks are, as Stegner said, ""absolutely American,"" they are no less part of the world at large. National Parks beyond the Nation tells us as much about the multifarious and changing ideas of nature and culture as about the framing of those ideas in geographic, temporal, and national terms.

Автор: Gibbons Whit, Dorcas Mike
Название: Snakes of the Southeast
ISBN: 0820349011 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820349015
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Fifty-two kinds of snakes can be found in the southeast USA, almost half of all species native to North America. Filled with more than 300 color photographs and written by two of the region`s most renowned herpetologists, this is the most comprehensive educational guide to the Snakes of the Southeast.

Автор: Barrett Louise
Название: Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds
ISBN: 0691165564 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691165561
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Описание: When a chimpanzee stockpiles rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different evolutionary trajectories, ecological niche

Автор: Lillywhite Harvey B
Название: How Snakes Work
ISBN: 0195380371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195380378
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Anyone can look at a snake and see a creature unique unto itself, a reptile with a set of zoological and biological traits that are entirely its own. Just looking at this distinct animal raises many scientific questions. With regard to evolution, how did such an animal come to be? How does a snake move, and how do its sense organs differ from that of other reptiles? How does it eat, and how does it reproduce? Essentially, how does a snake "work"? In How Snakes Work: The Structure, Function and Behavior of the World's Snakes, leading zoologist Harvey B. Lillywhite has written the definitive scientific guide to the functional biology of snakes. Written for both herpetologists and a more general audience with an interest in the field, How Snakes Work features nearly two hundred color images of various species of snakes, used to provide visual examples of biological features explained in the text.
Chapter topics include the evolutionary history of the snake, feeding, locomotion, the structure and function of skin, circulation and respiration, sense organs, sound production, temperature and thermoregulation, and reproduction. Containing all the latest research and advances in our biological knowledge of the snake, How Snakes Work is an indispensable asset to professional zoologists and enthusiasts alike.