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...