Mammals

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013606571Author Gene 1927- CaesarFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013428098Author J Wyatt DurhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013363450Author Jack Denning 1919- BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013353352Author Randolph L PetersonFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 630g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013315268Author Delbert Dwight 1908- DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 73g

While observing a family of elephants in the wild, Caitlin O'Connell noticed a peculiar listening behavior in which the matriarch lifted her foot and scanned the horizon, causing the other elephants to follow suit, as if they could 'hear' the ground...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788177552058Author Frank FinnFormat HardbackImprint Cosmo PublicationsPublisher Cosmo Publications

Focusing on the internal workings of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the author explores the impact of political and economic imperatives on the production and interpretation of scientific research. Central to this work are the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896445182Author Robert L. FriedheimFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint CCI PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 694g

Cetaceans are one of the most unknown groups in the animal kingdom. Their study is very difficult due to their scarcity, their flighty behaviour, and their enormous displacements. In addition, some species feed in very deep waters and only emerge to...

It is the evening of 26 August 2009 on Christmas Island. The last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting to try to catch it. It is a forlorn and futile exercise - even...

Most living carnivorous marsupials lead a secretive and solitary existence. From tiny insect eaters to the formidable Tasmanian Devil, Secret Lives of Carnivorous Marsupials offers rare insight into the history and habits of these creatures - from their...

Why does it benefit some male and female animals to live separately? Sexual segregation, wherein the sexes of a species live apart for long periods of time, has far-reaching consequences for the ecology, behavior, and conservation of hooved mammals,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816532841Author Julio L. BetancourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 478Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

The largest of all seals, elephant seals rank among the most impressive of marine mammals. They are renowned for their spectacular recovery from near-extinction at the end of the nineteenth century when seal hunters nearly eliminated the entire northern...

"Return to the Sea" portrays the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals - from giant whales and sea cows that originated 55 million years ago to the deep diving elephant seals and clam-eating walruses of modern times. This fascinating account of...

In the geological blink of an eye, mammals moved from an obscure group of vertebrates into a class of planetary dominance. Why? J. David Archibald's provocative study identifies the fall of dinosaurs as the factor that allowed mammals to evolve into the...

The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the...

Marine Mammal Ecotoxicology: Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Population Health provides tactics on how to develop a comprehensive methodology for the study of existing threats to marine mammals. By presenting a conservation-biology approach and new and...

Whaling for food has been a part of Faroese life for the past thousand years. Late in the 20th century, this community-based activity came under enormous pressure from international animal rights and environmental organizations. With some 95% of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700165866Author Renate HengstbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

From 1984 through 1995 a small band of ecologists led by Pan Wenshi from Peking University conducted a study of wild giant pandas in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. This project was the first Chinese-led conservation project in China and was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439187104Author Dr Temple GrandinFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 599g

In this first-ever landmark study of New Mexico's wild carnivores, Jean-Luc E. Cartron and Jennifer K. Frey have assembled a team of leading southwestern biologists to explore the animals and the major issues that shape their continued presence in the...

In this comprehensive account of olfactory communication and territorial behavior in the Mongolian gerbil, Del Thiessen and PaulineYahr provide the first detailed study of the neurological and physiological mechanisms that control these basic functions...

This book brings together scientific evidence and experience relevant to the practical conservation of bats. The authors worked with an international group of bat experts and conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that could benefit...

Mammalian predators are keystone species in any ecosystem. But many are elusive by nature and have territories that cover large areas of land, which makes them challenging to monitor. When tracks and signs prove difficult to interpret or are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039900035Author Nick PanterFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Royal British Columbia MuseumPublisher Royal British Columbia Museum

This book builds on two previous classics on deer in North America: The Deer of North America (Taylor 1956) and Mule and Black-tailed Deer of North America (Wallmo 1981). We have learned much about black-tailed and mule deer over the past 40–65 years...

When people today hear “paleontology,” they immediately think of dinosaurs. But for much of the history of the discipline, dramatic demonstrations of the history of life focused on the developmental history of mammals. The Age of Mammals examines how...

This book presents five chapters describing the characteristics and behaviors of Bubalus bubalis, or domestic water buffalo. Chapter One provides an update on recent developments in the approaches for estrus detection in buffalo. Chapter Two explains the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635491746Author Hyman DunnFormat HardbackImprint Larsen and Keller EducationPublisher Larsen and Keller EducationWeight(grams) 848g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953604913Author G. CsorbaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Alana BooksPublisher Alana BooksWeight(grams) 830g

The Biology of Small Mammals is the first exploration of the lives of small mammals undertaken in decades. Mammalogist Joseph F. Merritt offers an engaging, in-depth discussion about a diverse array of small mammals, from the rare Kitti's hog-nosed bat...

With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Phyllostomidae bat family (American leaf-nosed bats) is one of the world's most diverse mammalian families in...

This monumental text-reference places in clear persepctive the importance of nutritional assessments to the ecology and biology of ruminants and other nonruminant herbivorous mammals. Now extensively revised and significantly expanded, it reflects the...

Evolutionary maternal effects occur whenever a mother's phenotypic traits directly affect her offspring's phenotype, independent of the offspring's genotype. Some of the phenotypic traits that result in maternal effects have a genetic basis, whereas...

Praise for the first edition: "Rarely does one encounter scientific writing that is at the same time authoritative, full of well-documented data, and yet as readable as this book. It is good literature as well as good science. Readers almost feel...

This volume presents the results of an interview survey on the catch of polar bears in Northwest Greenland between 1952 and 2005. The results are based on detailed descriptions of 588 subsistence catches by Inuit polar bear hunters. The rationale for...

Bats have long been the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear: they move faultlessly through the darkness and spend the day hanging upside down in gloomy caverns and cracks - most at home where humans are least comfortable. Bats also represent a...