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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Supplement for Feb. 1974 includes Proposed revisions of society bylaws and rules.

Author: George A. Feldhamer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Balancing breadth and depth of coverage, this text is tailored to a one-semester mammalogy course appropriate for upper level undergraduates and graduate students with a basic background in vertebrate biology.

Author: Terry Vaughan
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 0763762997
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 770

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"Newly revised and extensively updated, the fifth edition of Mammalogy explains and clarifies the subject of mammalian biology as a unified whole, taking care to discuss the latest and most fascinating discoveries in the field. In recent years we witnessed significant changes in the taxonomy of mammals. The authors kept pace with such changes and revised each chapter to reflect the most current data and statistics available. New pedagogical elements, including chapter outlines, lists of key morphological characteristics, and further reading sections, help readers grasp the most important concepts and explore additional content on their own." --Book Jacket.

Author: Joseph F. Merritt
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801879507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Animals of this size face different physiological and ecological challenges than larger mammals.

Author: George A. Feldhamer
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421415895
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Reflecting the expertise and perspective of five leading mammalogists, the fourth edition of Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology significantly updates taxonomy, includes a new chapter on mammalian molecular phylogenetics, and highlights several recently described species. There are close to 5,500 species in the class Mammalia, including the blue whale—the largest animal that has ever lived—and the pygmy shrew, which weighs little more than a penny. The functional diversity of mammals has allowed them to play critical roles in every ecosystem, whether marine, freshwater, alpine, tundra, forest, or desert. Many mammal species are critically endangered and present complex conservation and management challenges. This book touches on those challenges, which are often precipitated by overharvesting and habitat loss, as well as emerging threats, such as the impact of wind turbines and white nose syndrome on bats and chronic wasting disease on deer. Among the updates and additions to the fourth edition of Mammalogy are numerous new photos, figures, and cladograms, over 4,200 references, as well as • A completely new chapter on mammalian phylogeny and genomics • Current taxonomy—including major changes to orders, suborders, and superfamilies of bats and rodents • An explanation of the recent inclusion of whales with terrestrial even-toed ungulates • Updates on mammalian structural, functional adaptations, and fossil history • recent advances in our understanding of phylogeny, biogeography, social behavior, and ecology • A discussion of two new orders and thirteen newly recognized extant families • Reflections on the implications of climate change for mammals • Thorough examinations of several recently described species, including Durrell's vontsira (Salanoia durrelli) and the Laotian rock rat (Laonastes aenigmamus) • An explanation of mammalian biomechanics, such as that seen in lunge feeding of baleen whales • Breakout boxes on unique aspects of mammals, including the syntax of bat songs, singing mice, and why there are no green mammals (unless we count algae-covered sloths) Maintaining the accessible, readable style for which Feldhamer and his coauthors are well known, this new edition of Mammalogy is the authoritative textbook on this amazingly diverse class of vertebrates.

Author: American Society of Mammalogists
Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Press
ISBN: 9781560988458
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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Presents descriptions and illustrations of hundreds of North American mammals, along with their scientific and common names and information on behavior, diet, reproduction, growth, longevity, and habitat.

Author: H.H. Genoways
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475799098
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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When I first proposed a series entitled Current Mammalogy to the pub lishers, they were reluctant to undertake such a project because they viewed the field of mammology as overly fragmented. At first I found this idea to be difficult to accept; however, upon reflection, I came near to agreeing with it. Although many of us work on mammals, we gen erally feel more allegiance to our specialties, such as systematics, ge netics, cytogenetics, ecology, behavior, pest control, paleontology, wildlife management, primatology, and marine mammalogy, than we do to the general field of mammalogy. However, rather than becoming discour aged from pursuing this project, I became more certain than ever that a series such as Current Mammalogy was needed. We hope to make this series a place where specialists can present their ideas not only to other members of their specialty, but to those outside the area as well. Hopefully, this exchange of ideas will be a mutually beneficial exercise. The Editorial Board of Current Mammalogy has decided to keep the range of subjects in each volume as broad as possible rather than concentrating on one or two topics, in the hope that this will keep the series as useful as possible to the broadest range of readers.

Author: Pat Smiddy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906643317
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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Culture Wars and Moral Panic tells the story of alcohol as a social and political issue and explains why certain countries have hosted temperance cultures and others have not. It presents an historical discourse analysis of the movements for temperance and Prohibition in the United States and in the UK. The book provides a wide-ranging commentary on alcohol as a social and political issue and illustrates how the historical movements for temperance and prohibition have much in common with the current moral panic over alcohol use in the UK. The book is written from a libertarian perspective and charts how concern over alcohol has moved from clerics to medics. It also provides an excoriating analysis of how the new 'public health' movement has used the alcohol issue to dramatize their agenda for the regulation of lifestyle. A recurrent theme of the book is that concerns over alcohol use mediates wider social anxieties and how the development of a neo-prohibitionist movement has acted as a vehicle for an interest-group status-conflict in the UK between the social conservatives of the old middle class and the social liberals of a new middle class that has developed since the end of World War Two.

Author: John L Long
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643099166
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 612

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Winner in the Scholarly Reference section of the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. Introduced Mammals of the World provides a concise and extensive source of information on the range of introductions of mammals conducted by humans, and an indication as to which have resulted in adverse outcomes. It provides a very valuable tool by which scientists can assess future potential introductions (or re-introductions) to avoid costly mistakes. It also provides tangible proof of the need for political decision makers to consider good advice and make wise and cautious decisions. Introduced Mammals of the World also provides a comprehensive reference to students of ecological systems management and biological conservation. This book is a companion volume to Introduced Birds of the World, by the same author, published in 1981, and which remains the premier text of its kind in the world more than twenty years after it was published. Introduced Mammals of the World provides the most comprehensive account of the movement of mammals around the world providing details on the date(s) of introduction, the person/agency responsible, the source populations, the location(s) of release, the fate of the introductions, and the impact if known, for over 300 species of mammal.