1978 296 pages with 16 color plates. Hardbound with good dust jacket, usual signs of use and age, text and plates in very good condition

Vanishing birds: Their natural history and conservation

Science & Math

Halliday, Tim

Nature & Ecology

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Encyclopaedia of Reptiles and Amphibians (Unwin Animal Library)

Alder, Kraig

Adler, Kraig

Reference

HarperCollins, Publishers

VANISHING BIRDS: THEIR NATURAL HISTORY AND CONSERVATION

Feeding is invoked in some way in almost all the encounters and associations between different species. The choice of food is immense: plants grow in a multitude of forms, from seaweeds to cactuses and from grasses to forest trees: animal prey is available from tiny krill in the oceans to antelopes on the plains. As almost every species is accessible to another with the right feeding strategy, there is a continual evolutionary jostling between eater and eaten for the advantage over the other.Among both plants and animals elaborate strategies have evolved for exploring the surrounding life as food. The feeding behavior of predators is based on a search and strike strategy. In contrast, grazers live surrounded by their food and are relatively immobile. Such animals as impalas and grasshoppers, whose persistent feeding make them ready prey, have evolved means of avoiding the notice of predators or methods of speedy escape. Plants that digest animal tissue have evolved complex and devious means to attract prey.The variations in style of these feeding encounters and the precision involved in some of the feeding mechanisms are the themes of Feeding Strategy.

Survival in the Wild: Feeding Strategy

Owen, Jennifer

Owen, D. F.

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

Clue Books: Trees

Allen, Gwen

Denslow, Joan

With over 7,000 known species, frogs display a stunning array of forms and behaviors. A single gram of the toxin produced by the skin of the Golden Poison Frog can kill 100,000 people. Male Darwin’s Frogs carry their tadpoles in their vocal sacs for sixty days before coughing them out into the world. The Wood Frogs of North America freeze every winter, reanimating in the spring from the glucose and urea that prevent cell collapse. The Book of Frogs commemorates the diversity and magnificence of all of these creatures, and many more. Six hundred of nature’s most fascinating frog species are displayed, with each entry including a distribution map, sketches of the frogs, species identification, natural history, and conservation status. Life-size color photos show the frogs at their actual size—including the colossal seven-pound Goliath Frog. Accessibly written by expert Tim Halliday and containing the most up-to-date information, The Book of Frogs will captivate both veteran researchers and amateur herpetologists. As frogs increasingly make headlines for their troubling worldwide decline, the importance of these fascinating creatures to their ecosystems remains underappreciated. The Book of Frogs brings readers face to face with six hundred astonishingly unique and irreplaceable species that display a diverse array of adaptations to habitats that are under threat of destruction throughout the world.

The Book of Frogs: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World

University of Chicago Press

Explains the biological principles that underly the nature of sexual behavior in animals and depicts the variety of mating habits of insects, fish, birds, and other animals

Sexual Strategy

Univ of Chicago Pr

Recent intense scrutiny of amphibian conservation status makes this title a timely archive in the context of the frogs dramatic decline. Frogs are adversely affected by loss of habitat, pollution by agricultural and industrial chemicals, and climate change. As such, the frog is an important pollutant indicator. This book will profile 600 species, representing the remarkable diversity of frogs, each species photographed life-size to capture its delicate detail, and accompanied by an in-depth species profile.

The Book of Frogs /anglais

Ivy Press

Are you crazy for frogs? A Box of Frogs will satisfy the most ardent enthusiast for these eccentric and lovable amphibians, offering you 100 postcards of the most vivid and appealing examples of a colourful and characterful family. Flip through the pack, admire its inhabitants, then choose the most awesome to send or display.Â

A Box of Frogs: 100 Beautiful Postcards

La gran enciclopedia de los anfibios y reptiles / The New Encyclopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians (Spanish Edition)

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Editorial Libsa Sa

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