Zoology
epub |eng | | Author:Peter H. Rhys Evans

FIGURE 11.4 Toothed whale forehead melon for echolocation. (Courtesy of Miles Away Photography/Shutterstock.) By contrast, the baleen whale can vocalise and hear very low-pitched or infrasonic sound, which can travel ...
( Category: Zoology July 4,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-12 | Author:John Bradshaw & Sarah Ellis [Bradshaw, John]

WHETHER THE FELINE INSTINCT IS TO HUNT IT OR FLEE FROM IT, cats can be trained to live alongside other animals as long as alternative appropriate outlets for hunting instincts ...
( Category: Training July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Candace Savage

An Arthur Rackham illustration for “The Twa Corbies,” or two crows, a Scottish version of the same ballad. The THREE Crows A VERSION OF THE OLD ENGLISH BALLAD “THE THREE ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Andrea B Weir & Margaret Collins

5.4.2 Extraocular Muscles The extraocular muscles consist of six muscles (four rectus muscles and two oblique muscles) and, in species such as the dog and rabbit, the retractor bulbi [4, ...
( Category: Ophthalmology July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-10 | Author:Sarah Harris & Don Baker

Budgerigar lights gas: owner fined A budgerigar blamed for a black-out offence at Sutton Cold-field, was stated to have turned on a gaslight by perching on the chain … its ...
( Category: Ornithology July 3,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Naruya Saitou

10.3 DNA Viruses Most of bacterial and archaeal viruses (phages) are DNA viruses , and genome sizes of DNA viruses are often in order of 104 and are much larger ...
( Category: Microbiology July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sena S. Silva & F. Brian Davy

The inland fishery of Sri Lanka has been essentially a capture fishery from perennial reservoirs (major and medium-scale irrigation reservoirs; Table 6.1). However, most small-sized (<100 ha) minor irrigation reservoirs ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks July 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-12 | Author:Sally Carrighar

( Category: Zoology June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Garrod [Garrod, Ben]

Stunted. Fed a diet of alcohol and scraps, this adult male is much smaller than he should be. Innocence lost. Shortly after being rescued, Star settles into life at the ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 28,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-12-06 | Author:Peter Godfrey-Smith

6 OUR MINDS AND OTHERS From Hume to Vygotsky In one of the most famous passages in all of philosophy, David Hume in 1739 looked inside his mind in an ...
( Category: Marine Life June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth L. Gosner

SEA GOOSEBERRY Pleurobrachia pileus p. 99 Spherical, firm-bodied; has 2 long retractile tentacles. To 1⅛ in. (28 mm). See text for similar species. VENUS GIRDLE Cestum veneris p. 101 Ribbonlike. ...
( Category: Coral Reefs Ecosystems June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:Nik Borrow;

( Category: Ornithology June 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-24 | Author:Michael Brooke

Figure-of-8 migration routes of 16 Short-tailed Shearwaters tracked from Great Dog Island, Tasmania. Reproduced with permission of BirdLife Australia, from the work cited in Note 19, Chapter 6. * * ...
( Category: Ornithology June 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Matthew Cobb

Navigation These complex links between place, memory, and smell may be explained by an idea first put forward in 2012, by Lucia Jacobs of the University of California. She suggested ...
( Category: Zoology June 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-19 | Author:Ken Gerhard [Gerhard, Ken]

Example of a fake Bigfoot print (Public Domain) Hoaxing Since the late 1950s, there have been and still are bogus Bigfoot “investigators” who attempt to make money by fabricating evidence ...
( Category: Primatology June 19,2020 )