Zoology & Animal Sciences

Wonderful . . . Endlessly interesting and beautifully written DAILY TELEGRAPH Steady-headed and fun SUNDAY TIMESRead this book and, I promise, youl...

This book investigates a vital and controversial question for conservation and rewilding in Britain and Ireland: could and should we learn to live ...

The transition period of the productive cycle of dairy cows is the most critical and important phase of the entire cycle. Therefore, thorough knowl...

Soil invertebrates make up diverse communities living in soil pores and on the soil surface, digging burrows and tunnels, processing organic matter...

Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside treating cows, dogs, pigs and cats, he's also w...

This book is the first to allow you to experience the details of the ultra-fast lives of dragonflies, these large, beautiful flying insects, throug...

This book presents a compendium of advanced research and basic principles/approaches related to vetinformatics. All chapters have explored the role...

Key features: High quality full color photographs and descriptive texts on the location and removal of the organs from the mouse Instructive method...

This book unites cutting-edge research related to various aspects of dog olfaction. It includes rich expertise about detection dogs with applicatio...

Illustrated with more than 250 outstanding photographs, Wild Animals presents an in-depth look at the natural worlds most deadly, endangered or jus...

What the honey bee can teach us about evolutionand ourselves.How did the honey bee evolve into the complex colonial species that exists todayand wh...

Primatology, Ethics and Trauma offers an analytical re-examination of the research conducted into the linguistic abilities of the Oklahoma chimpanz...

One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fac...

With a novel approach to Aristotles zoology, this study looks at animals as creatures of nature (physis) and reveals a scientific discourse that, i...

This section of the Handbook of Zoology is intended as a comprehensive and exhaustive account of the biology of the taxa Gastrotricha, Nematoda, Ne...

The state of São Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most densely populated and developed areas in South America. Such development is evident both in term...

Freshwater ecosystems have the greatest species diversity per unit area and many endangered species. This book shows that, rather than being a marg...

Southwest Asia is at the epicentre of zooarchaeological research on pivotal changes in human history such as animal domestication and the emergence...

A decade after publication of the first edition, Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles responds to extensive changes in the field of toxinology...

The Lower Rio Grande Valley is an ecologically unique region acclaimed for its biodiversity and great conservation value. The Valley harbors a mult...

Gives an account of the morphologies of vertebrate respiratory organs and attempts to explicate the basis of the common and different structural an...

Nanotechnology offers a revolutionary and definitive approach for the efficient delivery of drug molecules to non-healthy tissues and cells. This f...