Zoology & Animal Sciences

Only clinically oriented volume devoted to poisonous animals and venoms. Veterinary Zootoxicology provides an excellent overview of the state of th...

Whether a secularized morality, biblical worldview, or unstated set of mores, the Victorian period can and always will be distinguished from those ...

Since the early 1950s, work has been undertaken on the infrared sensory organs of snakes by a handful of investigators around the world. Despite pr...

Zooplankton is a major work of reference for researchers in plankton biology, physiology and behavior, which combines behavioral and psychological ...

Animal cell culture is an important laboratory technique in the biological and medical sciences. It has become an essential tool for the study of m...

The 19th century pioneers of motor physiology - Helmholtz, Hering, Fick and others - used the mathematics of motion, known as kinematics, to descri...

This text focuses on the principles and methods of using growth layers formed in teeth and bones of mammals to make a judgement on essential traits...

Evolution and the Human-Animal Drive to Conflict examines how fundamental, universal animal drives, such as dominance/prevalence, survival, kinship...

This title, the 52nd in symposium series, presents a comprehensive review of apoptosis and features contributions from many internationally recogni...

This is a book about the bond between sentient beings. It explores the non-verbal space between two entities, and asks questions like: What is a he...

This is a book about the bond between sentient beings. It explores the non-verbal space between two entities, and asks questions like: What is a he...

Learning and Memory provides a balanced review of the core methods and the latest research on animal learning and human memory. Topical coverage ra...

The nineteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the ...

The 29th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. This volume concludes with a text on Erasmus Darwin, grandfa...

Spatial cognition is a broad field of enquiry, emerging from a wide range of disciplines and incorporating a wide variety of paradigms that have be...

The 27th volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 19th c...

In the past three decades, considerable progress has been made in the mathematical analysis, modelling, and simulation of the fluid dynamics of liq...

Pathobiology of Marine and Estuarine Organisms is a comprehensive, up-to-date review of aquatic animal pathobiology covering infectious and non-inf...

Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and ...

This book presents a comprehensive and coherent picture of how molecules diffuse across a liquid that is, on average, only two molecules thick. It ...

The important volume summarizes the current trends and developments in the study of bacterial and viral fish diseases. Books on these subjects are ...

This collection of essays was written by former students, associates, admirers, critics and friends of Donald R. Griffin -- the creator of cognitiv...

Mammalian Neuroendocrinology presents a concise examination of how the nervous and endocrine systems interact to regulate physiological processes. ...

This edited book addresses four themes of contemporary importance in the experimental and applied analysis of behaviour: chronobiology (relationshi...

Learn how to start a census program for terrestrial vertebrates with this handbook. Whether the information you need is for managing a population, ...

This book, based on the Flowerree Mardi Gras Symposium at Tulane University, juxtaposes contemporary research and theory from several areas of anim...

There is a revolution underway in biology. It is based on a new perception of bodies and genes, in which the former are the end product of the latt...

The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psycholo...

First published in 1995. It will soon be forty years since the original edition of this work, Sur la piste des bêtes ignorées (1955), appeared in F...

The contributors to this volume present research concerning the cognitive structures and development of nonhuman primates from a cognitive psycholo...

This updated, streamlined, generously illustrated Fifth Edition of the classic text combines comparative vertebrate anatomy and embryology into one...

Konrad Lorenz was the author of some of the most popular books ever published about animals, including the best-selling Man Meets Dog and King Solo...

Are animals intelligent? How do they learn to solve everyday survival problems? Can they be intentionally deceptive? The investigation of animal be...

Culture in Psychology breaks new ground by attempting to understand the complexity and specificity of cultural identities today. It rejects the ide...

Are animals intelligent? How do they learn to solve everyday survival problems? Can they be intentionally deceptive? The investigation of animal be...

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing ...