Zoology & Animal Sciences

Pollination and Floral Ecology is the most comprehensive single-volume reference to all aspects of pollination biology--and the first fully up-to-d...

The reviews in this collection are unique in their intent to provide a basis for understanding of the subject. They include historical, descriptive...

A topic of perpetual fascination, the kangaroos of Australia have been the focus of myriad books and documentaries. Kangaroos in Outback Australia ...

From the interactive clockwork world of geology, tides, Northwest weather, and snow, to the hidden roles of dirt, stream life, and mosses and liche...

Did you know that chickens have different alarm calls for different predators? This fascinating dictionary covers every aspect of animal behaviour...

The sixteenth volume in a 29-volume set which contain all Charles Darwin's published works. Darwin was one of the most influential figures of the 1...

This volume is based on the proceedings of a conference held in Sicily, in October 1991. It illustrates the developments in the field of behavioura...

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationship...

The Laboratory Hamster and Gerbil details basic information and common procedures for individuals performing research with hamsters and gerbils. It...

Evolution is a series of bets, and no animal gambles the way humans do. This has led us to unprecedented ecological dominance, via the steepest odd...

Although the field of quantitative genetics - the study of the genetic basis of variation in quantitative characteristics such as body size, or rep...

While philosophers have been interested in animals since ancient times, in the last few decades the subject of animal minds has emerged as a major ...

Originally published in 1948, the author follows the idea that the instincts are "the spring and basis of all animal behaviour (with the exception ...

Narrowing the gulf between humans and animals

Recent ideas and experimental studies suggest that the relationship between parasitism and host behaviour has been a powerful shaping force in the ...

Prepared as a tribute to Donald A. Riley, the essays that appear here are representative of a research area that has loosely been classified as ani...

Prepared as a tribute to Donald A. Riley, the essays that appear here are representative of a research area that has loosely been classified as ani...

This book brings together for the first time, a collection of classic texts combined with a number of contemporary syntheses on the widely studied ...

"Presenting a historical analysis of the evolution of systematics during the last one hundred years, Milestones in Systematics reviews many of the ...

Insect-Plant Interactions and Induced Plant DefenceChair: John A. Pickett, 1999 This book examines the sophisticated mechanisms that plants use to ...

Nature and Normativity argues that the problem of the place of norms in nature has been essentially misunderstood when it has been articulated in t...

First Published in 2004. Zoos and animal rights would appear to be in conflict, yet Stephen Bostock argues that this need not and should not be so....

This volume presents a unique comparative treatment of the role oxidative stress plays in vertebrates and invertebrates in multiple organ systems w...

Insects and Wildlife: Arthropods and their Relationships with Wild Vertebrate Animals provides a comprehensive overview of the interrelationships o...

The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics brings together the cutting-edge theory, research and methodology that contribute to ...

Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Lizards and Tuatara is a remarkable compendium of chapters written by the world's leading experts from over f...

The Evolution of Human Cleverness presents a unique introduction to the way human cognitive abilities have evolved. The book comprises a series of ...

In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that anima...

Systematists, comparative biologists, taxonomists and evolutionary biologists all concern themselves with the evolutionary relationships between an...

West Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic ...

West Southwest: Vertebrate Life in Southern California celebrates an amazingly diverse fauna with description, evolutionary background, geographic ...

Given their roles in the ecosystem, raptors are widely considered the flagship or umbrella species among birds. Most species undertake a seasonal j...

A persistent argument among evolutionary biologists and philosophers revolves around the nature of natural selection. Evolution by Natural Selectio...

The book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took plac...

Originally published in 1985, the aim of this book was to examine the development of adaptive skills in a comparative context. Comparative explorat...

Laboratory animals, including dogs, play an important role in biomedical research and medical advances. Dogs have a long history of use in research...

Our views on human nature are fundamental to the whole development, indeed the whole future, of human society. Originally published in 1974, Profes...

The Insectile and the Deconstruction of the Non/Human defines, conceptualizes, and evaluates the insectile—pertaining to an entomological fascinati...

The relationship between brain and mind is one of the most baffling problems in science but potentially one of the most interesting. First publishe...

Originally published in 1977, the objective of this book was to examine the mechanisms by which the multiple factors or determinants – homeostatic ...

Think like you’ve got nine brains, feel like you’ve got three hearts, and hug as though you have eight arms. ...