E-book Behaviour, Development and Evolution

These days few biologists would try to pin their religious faith, if they have any, on biological evidence, and the apparent design to which Paley referred would be attributed instead to the evolutionary mechanism which Charles Darwin called natural selection. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is universally accepted among serious biologists (except for a …

E-book Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence

The explanation of animal communication by means of concepts like information, meaning and reference is one of the central foundational issues in animal behaviour studies. This book explores these issues, revolving around questions such as: what is the nature of information? What theoretical roles does information play in animal communication studies? Is it justified to employ these concepts in…

E-book Animal Courtship (Animal Behavior)

Explores the courtship behavior of different animals, including insects, fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

E-book The Secret Language of Animals: A Guide to Remarkable Behavior

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E-book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia?but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases sh…

E-book Animals and Medicine : The Contribution of Animal Experiments to the C…

The Research Defence Society (RDS) was founded in 1908 by Dr Stephen Paget, son of the eminent Victorian surgeon, Sir James Paget. Its role was to defend scientists conducting medical research using animals and to inform the public about the importance of animal experimentation. In its first year it attracted a membership of 2000 which included scientists in th…

E-book Ecology of Fish Community : Niche Modeling Based on Fish Morphological…

A biological community refers to the distribution of organisms in a certain time andspace, usually including animals, plants, microorganisms, and other species popu-lations. Biological communities are the living parts of an ecosystem. Biologicalcommunities depend on the environment; usually, each environment has a corre-sponding specific biological community. Therefore, the ecological environme…

E-book Animal Emotions : How They Drive Human Behavior

Uually, our emotions are strongly controlled. Therefore, we seldom experience situations of raw affect, where emotions simply overwhelm us. This is basically a good thing, because controlling our ancestral emotional urges helps us to respond more appropriately to most of the daily situational demands of our modern society. It is simply not acceptable to always show an emotional response i…

E-book Introduction and History of Wildlife Ecology and Management

Wildlife Management is “Game management is the art of making land produce sustained annual crops of wild game for recreational use.” Leopold 1933 " the management of wildlife populations in the context of the ecosystem.” Sinclair et al. 2006 “the application of ecological knowledge to populations of vertebrate animals and their plant and animal associates in a manner that strikes a bala…

E-book Dolphins, Porpoises and Whales of the World : The IUCN Red Data Book

The mammalian order catacea includes three suborders: the archaeoceti ancient whales, extinct forms known only from fossils. including at least ten living species of baleen or whalebone whale; and the odontoceti or toothed whales, including about 70 living species of dolphins, porpoises, and whales with teeth but no baleen. So far, humans have not driven any cetacean species to extinction, alth…

E-book An Anthology of Intriguing Animals

This beautiful modern bestiary lets you find the animals that interest you and uncover new favourites along the way. From tigers and chameleons to wolves and owls there’s an animal for everyone in this compendium of creatures. Each type of animal is shown both photographically and illustrated, and you will love poring over the detailed close-up images.

E-book Fur Farming and Public Health

Recent studies suggest that the virus was introduced to humans in at least two separate zoonotic transmission events at the Huanan market in Wuhan around November 2019. Raccoon dogs and red foxes were observed to be present at the market during the crucial period in late 2019 and many of these animals originated from fur farms in a region with extensive cave complexes housing Rhinolophus bats, …

E-book Mountain: Around the Clock with Animal of The Mountains

In the context of one day in the Altiplano, introduces the animals and plants that live in this mountainous terrain, describing their characteristics, behavior, and daily activities.

E-book Cattle Diseases : The Farmer's Guide

Anthrax has not been diagnosed in SA for many years, but the risk of an outbreak is heightened with occasional detections in NSW and Victoria as well as isolated outbreaks in WA and Queensland. Anthrax is caused by a bacterium that affects many species including cattle, sheep, goats and humans. The bacterium produces spores when exposed to air that persist in soil for many years. The disease is…

E-book Fighting Nature : Travelling Menageries, Animal Acts and War Shows

Crowbar in hand, Isaac Van Amburgh became famous for confrontinglions in the confined space of a cage in a new type of public enter-tainment. His look alone was believed to subdue lions although inperformance he manhandled them forcefully. Sensationalist handlingacts proliferated and the feat that came to typify 19th-century travellingmenageries involved tamers, including lion queen Ellen Chapm…

E-book Atlas of The World's Strangest Animals

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E-book Animal Communication

This e-book contains how animal's communication through signal, vision, audition acuity and many more.

E-book IUCN Red List : 2017-2020 Report

The Red List Index shows trends in overall extinction risk for species, and is used by governments and others to track their progress towards targets for reducing biodiversity loss. This is only made possible by regular updates of species assessments on the IUCN Red List and data and graphs on different Red List Indices are available on the IUCN Red List website. The IUCN Red List helped shape …

E-Book Researching Animal Research

Animal research is part of a complex web of relations made up of humans and animals, practices inside and outside the laboratory, formal laws and professional norms, and social imaginaries of the past and future of medicine. Researching Animal Research sets out an innovative approach for understanding and intervening in the social practices that constitute animal research. It proposes the idea …

E-book Animal Anatomy and Physiology 1

This e-book contains anatomy and physiology of an animal.

E-book Patent Landscape Reoprt on Animal Genetic Resources

This patent landscape report provides an overview of international patent activity for animal genetic resources, in particular those relating to food and agriculture. The empirical analysis of patent activity for animal genetic resources for food and agriculture has received remarkably little attention in the scientific literature. Indeed, in conducting the present research we found no example …