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  • Why Penguins Communicate

    The Evolution of Visual and Vocal Signals

    by Pierre Jouventin, F.Stephen Dobson ...
    Why Penguins Communicate: The Evolution of Visual and Vocal Signals is a comprehensive and condensed review of several hundred publications on the evolution of penguin behaviors, particularly signaling, linking genetics and ecology via such behavioral adaptations as nuptial displays. This exciting work has developed from the authors' many years researching on the behavioral strategies of penguins, ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

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  • Animal Madness

    How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves

    by Laurel Braitman ...
    ****“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick****Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads****People magazine Best Summer Reads**“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).**Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Serengeti Rules

    The Quest to Discover How Life Works and Why It Matters - With a new Q&A with the author

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    Now the subject of an Emmy Award–winning film the New York Times calls "spellbinding"How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? In The Serengeti Rules, award-winning biologist and author Sean Carroll tells the stories of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Domestic Dog

    Its Evolution, Behavior and Interactions with People

    Edited by James Serpell ...
    Why do dogs behave in the ways that they do? Why did our ancestors tame wolves? How have we ended up with so many breeds of dog, and how can we understand their role in contemporary human society? Explore the answers to these questions and many more in this study of the domestic dog. Building on the strengths of the first edition, this much-anticipated update incorporates two decades of new ... Read more

    $49.19 USD

  • How the Zebra Got Its Stripes

    by Léo Grasset ...
    Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like the male's penis?Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations in Africa, Léo Grasset offers answers to these questions and many more in a book of post-Darwinian Just So stories. Complex natural phenomena are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nature's Compass

    The Mystery of Animal Navigation

    by James L. Gould, Carol Grant Gould ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    The mysterious and remarkable ways that animals navigateWe know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explores the remarkable methods by which animals find their way ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • P is For Penguins Happy Flappy Feet

    Penguins Childrens Books

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Picture books featuring wild animals help develop a child's imagination in a plethora of meaningful ways. First, the shapes and colors featured in the books will spark the child's creative spirit and potentially generate a desire to draw similar figures. Second, the picture books featuring wild creatures will likely spark questions regarding the personal preferences and proclivities of the animals ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Evolutionary Biomechanics

    Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint

    by Graham Taylor, Adrian Thomas ...
    Series series Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
    Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which physical constraints and performance can be predicted from first principles. Instead of reviewing the entire breadth of the biomechanical literature, a few key examples are explored in depth as vehicles for discussing fundamental concepts, analytical ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals

    Edited by William F. Perrin, Bernd Würsig, J.G.M. Thewissen ...
    This thorough revision of the classic Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals brings this authoritative book right up-to-date. Articles describe every species in detail, based on the very latest taxonomy, and a host of biological, ecological and sociological aspects relating to marine mammals. The latest information on the biology, ecology, anatomy, behavior and interactions with man is provided by a cast ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior

    A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends

    by Rui Diogo ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book proposes a new way to think about evolution. The author carefully brings together evidence from diverse fields of science. In the process, he bridges the gaps between many different--and usually seen as conflicting--ideas to present one integrative theory named ONCE, which stands for Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution. The author argues that evolution is mainly driven by the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Evolution of the House Mouse

    Edited by Miloš Macholán, Stuart J. E. Baird, Jaroslav Piálek, Pavel Munclinger ...
    Series Book 3 - Cambridge Studies in Morphology and Molecules: New Paradigms in Evolutionary Bio
    The house mouse is the source of almost all genetic variation in laboratory mice; its genome was sequenced alongside that of humans, and it has become the model for mammalian speciation. Featuring contributions from leaders in the field, this volume provides the evolutionary context necessary to interpret these patterns and processes in the age of genomics. The topics reviewed include mouse ... Read more

    $119.79 USD

  • The Jehol Fossils

    The Emergence of Feathered Dinosaurs, Beaked Birds and Flowering Plants

    by Mee-Mann Chang ...
    No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing fossil finds including the first complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx in 1861, four-winged dinosaurs- ... Read more

    $75.59 USD