Animal Physiology

Uncover natures best-hidden creatures in a major new book on animal camouflage.Camouflage is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in de...

Maintaining the health of pigs is vital in pig farming and production. This new book written by experts from around the world focuses on the health...

Vision is the sense by which we and other animals obtain most of our information about the world around us. Darwin appreciated that at first sight ...

A billion-year history of movement,from bacteria to Olympic athletes.'Packed with revelations, scholarly but clear, Restless Creatures carriesyou f...

This volume, in its over two dozen chapters, constitutes an overview of the current plant toxin research. It covers from general aspects of plant t...

This volume deals mainly with the specialized aspect of toxins and drug discovery. Man has been using natural resources especially plants to treat ...

Mechanical Design of Structural Materials in Animals explores the principles underlying how molecules interact to produce the functional attributes...

Why do you switch from walking to running at a specific speed? Why do tall trees rarely blow over in high winds? And why does a spore ejected into ...

This book discusses current research in the study of the development, disorders and regeneration of muscle cells. Topics include the basic biology ...

Photoreceptors are nerve end organs or receptors that are sensitive to light. In the retina of the eye, the outer limbs of rods and cones make up t...

Teeth are amazing - the product of half a billion years of evolution. They provide fuel for the body by breaking apart other living things; and the...