Zoology
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Lorenz, Konrad [Lorenz, Konrad]

Curiously enough, this border-line between black and white showed considerable variations in individuals and even on both sides of one animal's body. I welcomed this, since it enabled me to ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication July 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Don E. Wilson [Wilson, Don E.]

Naked-Backed Bats The family Mormoopidae has only two genera and is limited to the New World (see photo E, Mormoops megalophylla, in the gallery). One genus, Pteronotus, has several species, ...
( Category: Mammals July 18,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2000-04-09 | Author:Bagemihl, Bruce [Bagemihl, Bruce]

Frequency: Homosexual activity occurs only sporadically in Moose and Caribou. About a quarter of all male Moose associate together in pairs during at least part of the year. Orientation: Adult ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication July 2,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-09 | Author:Maestripieri, Dario [Maestripieri, Dario]

Love: The Perfect Business Solution? From an economist’s point of view, all cooperative relationships are business partnerships: whether the goal is to make children or to run the Planet Hollywood ...
( Category: Primatology June 22,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

But why did dogs start looking less like wolves and more like dogs? That happened on its own, too. Turns out—and no one could have predicted this, and no one ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:Stephen Lilley [Lilley, Stephen]

collapse of Western civilization. They claimed that a growing dependence on technologies was replacing worship of God and eroding a Christian culture based on faith, community, and simplicity of life. ...
( Category: Zoology June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

Fruit and flower scarabs. All but one of these cetoniines are from East Africa; the South American rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules (lower left), is shown in four views, male and ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2000-09-21 | Author:Carl Zimmer [Zimmer, Carl]

• • • As tapeworms moved into new hosts they had to evolve new ways to live inside them. They had to adapt to new geographies of intestines; the tapeworms ...
( Category: Entomology June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A just-hatched broad-winged hawk on a freshly inserted green fern frond. No greens are added during the month-long incubation, but after the young hatch, the greens are brought almost daily ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-18 | Author:Suzanne Clothier

context of our role as guardians and caretakers, persuasion may fail. In some situations, compulsion or coercion may be justified, especially if the consequences of a failure to respond or ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-04-16 | Author:David P. Barash; Judith Eve Lipton

llliam James is said to have composed this ditty, although with insights inspired by opium rather than evolutionary biology: Higamous hogamous, woman monogamous Hogamous higamous, man is polygamous. What earthly ...
( Category: Sexuality June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
epub | | 2014-07-08 | Author:Simon Watt

‘… armed with chemical weaponry …’ PART SALAMANDER, PART sausage, this frankfurter-like amphibian is known as an olm. It lives in the cavernous pits below the ground of Slovenia, Croatia, ...
( Category: Zoology June 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * IV. About the very great merit of this work, there is but one opinion among competent judges. It is, indeed, a monument to the man's indomitable energy ...
( Category: Zoology May 30,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Fabre, Jean-Henri [Fabre, Jean-Henri]

CHAPTER 8. THE LEAF-CUTTERS. It is not enough that animal industry should be able, to a certain extent, to adapt itself to casual exigencies when choosing the site of a ...
( Category: Zoology May 30,2015 )