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A practical and authoritative reference for veterinary practitioners and technicians working with marine mammals in managed care or in free-ranging populations In Marine Mammal Health and Disease, distinguished veterinarian researcher Dr. Julia Zaias delivers an...
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Wiley
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2025-07-15
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In this fascinating science book, a behavioral and bat ecologist reintroduces readers to bats, redeeming their historically bad reputation. These woefully misunderstood creatures dwell in darkness, inspire fear, and threaten danger. They’ve been viewed as the...
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Timber Press
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2025-02-11
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Uncover on-the-ground reporting on the conflict between conservationists, ranchers, and an iconic predator—and discover the solution that might appease them all. The gray wolf has made an astonishing comeback in Washington. Nearly eradicated by the 1990s,...
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Timber Press
Parution :
2023-04-11
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The badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of their ecology and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-10-17
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Beavers are represented by two extant species, the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) and the North American beaver (Castor canadensis); each has played a significant role in human history and dominated wetland ecology in the northern hemisphere. Their behaviour and ecology...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-07
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From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that lived 200 million years ago, mammals evolved into the huge variety of different kinds of animals we see today. Many species are still small, and follow the lifestyle of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-21
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From a modest beginning in the form of a little shrew-like, nocturnal, insect eating ancestor that lived 200 million years ago, mammals evolved into the huge variety of different kinds of animals we see today. Many species are still small, and follow the lifestyle of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-09-21
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Comparative Mammalian Haematology: Cellular Components and Blood Coagulation of Captive Wild Mammals presents a critical review of the hematology of the vertebrates. It discusses the characteristics of blood components of primates; the features of the red cells of...
Editeur :
Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution :
2017-09-09
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Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and cetaceans). How mammals function and survive in these diverse environments has long...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-10
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Mammals are the so-called "pinnacle" group of vertebrates, successfully colonising virtually all terrestrial environments as well as the air (bats) and sea (especially pinnipeds and cetaceans). How mammals function and survive in these diverse environments has long...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-27
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Provides a comprehensive overview of one of nature's most engaging mammals Covers fossil history, taxonomy, genetics, physiology, biomechanics, behavior, ecology, and conservation Includes genetic analysis of five of the six subspecies of modern giraffes Includes...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-08-09
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The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a coherent structure that deals initially with the characteristics and strategies of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-04-25
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Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. The...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Echidnas, Volume 38 presents the scientific classification of the mammal echidnas. This book describes the characteristics, behavior, reproduction, embryology, anatomy, and physiology of the spiny anteaters, Tachyglossidae. Organized into 11 chapters, this volume...
Editeur :
Pergamon
Parution :
2015-08-26
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Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2015-05-05
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Cannabinoids ‘Cannabinoids’ is a broad term covering a group of natural products from Cannabis sativa, one of which locks on to specific receptors – protein molecules on the surface of cells – known as cannabinoid receptors. Over the past decades scientists have found...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-07-18
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Lymphocyte Differentiation, Recognition, and Regulation provides an overview of the state of knowledge on cellular immunology. The focus is on animal work than on studies in man, although in certain areas human lymphocyte biology has been discussed in some detail. The...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-06-28
epub sans DRM
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Immunological Methods a compendium of basic research techniques being used in one of the largest immunology research institutes, the Basel Institute for Immunology, with particular emphasis given to new methodology. The procedures have been described by individuals...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-06-28
epub sans DRM
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Behavior of Nonhuman Primates: Modern Research Trends, Volume 3 provides information pertinent to research on behavior of nonhuman primates. This book presents the knowledge of the social development of rhesus infants and compares with data on other species. Organized...
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-06-28
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The Antibody Molecule reviews the literature leading to current knowledge of the structure of immunoglobulins.The book begins by outlining some of the basic structural characteristics of immunoglobulins without citing the references on which the information is based....
Editeur :
Academic Press
Parution :
2014-06-28
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