Author: Etta KanerPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1550744194
Category : Animal defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
In this book in the Animal Behavior series, discover how animals protect themselves.
Animal Defenses
Author: Etta KanerPublisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1550744194
Category : Animal defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
In this book in the Animal Behavior series, discover how animals protect themselves.
Animal Defenses
Author: Christina WilsdonPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438126050
Category : Animal defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Insects that look like leaves, snakes that play dead, fish that fly, and toads with poisonous skin--these creatures are among many that defend themselves in fascinating ways. Animal Defenses presents the wide variety of physical and behavioral adaptations used by animals and insects in their struggle to survive and shows how scientists continue to make new discoveries about the age-old maneuvering between predator and prey.
In Defence of Animals
Author: Peter SingerPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631138969
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In Singer's book, the idea of the animal rights movement is set in the context of scientific knowledge, philosophy, and ethics. This highly readable account gives an invaluable introduction to modern thought on animal rights. (Animals/Pets)
Defence in Animals
Author: Malcolm EdmundsPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Primary defence. Anachoresis. Crypsis. Aposematism. Batesian mimicry. Secondary defence. Withdrawal to a prepared retreat. Flight. Deimatic behaviour. Thanatosis. Deflection of an attack. Retaliation (aggressive defence). Defensive groups and associations. Single species groups of animals. The evolution of predator-prey systems. Predators superior to the best defence.
In Defense of Animals
Author: Peter SingerPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118712358
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, InDefense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the newchallenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopherPeter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concernwhen he first published In Defence of Animals and AnimalLiberation over thirty years ago Essays explore new ways of measuring animal suffering, reassessthe question of personhood, and draw highlight tales of effectiveadvocacy Lays out “Ten Tips for Activists”, taking thereader beyond ethical theory and into the day-to-day campaigns foranimal rights
Animal Contests
Author: Ian C. W. HardyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107244390
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and multiparty contests, and approaches to experimental design and data analysis are discussed in the first chapters. This is followed by reviews of research in key animal taxa, from the use of aerial displays and assessment rules in butterflies and the developmental biology of weapons in beetles, through to interstate warfare in humans. The final chapter considers future directions and applications of contest research, making this a comprehensive resource for both graduate students and researchers in the field.
Cephalopod Behaviour
Author: Roger T. HanlonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521897858
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
A fully updated overview of the causation, function, development and evolution of cephalopod behaviour, richly illustrated in full colour.
Animal Defenses
Author: Etta KanerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780439135061
Category : Animal defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Discusses methods of animal defense, including shells, armor, poison, bites, camouflage, and playing dead. Includes a section on animals which need help in being defended.
Animal Weapons
Author: Douglas J. EmlenPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805094504
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals
Author: Timothy M. CaroPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226094367
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their predators, from the camoflaged coat of the giraffe to the extraordinary way in which South American sealions ward off the attacks of killer whales.