'A lovely little book ... quietly lyrical, often funny and gently persuasive' Sunday Times 'Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn't stop reading it' Jeff VanderMeer We've all seen the fox. A flash of his brushy tail disappearing between the gap of a fence, a blaze of orange caught in the headlights as he scampers across the road. We've heard him too, his strange barks echoing in the city night. Perhaps we've even c...
Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles of Hertfordshire (Natural history of Hertfordshire)
by Michael Clark
A wonderfully entertaining celebration of that most unique of creatures: the sloth.In public estimation, sloths have undergone an astonishing transformation in the course of the past few years. Thanks largely to YouTube clips posted by the sloth orphanage in Costa Rica, sloths have attracted a vast audience of admirers. Instead of seeing them as ridiculous anachronisms of which we know little, they have turned into creatures considered by many to be the most endearing on earth. Over much the sa...
The inspirational book "Rescuing the Spectacled Bear" is read by Stephen Fry and also includes a specially recorded update by the author on the Bear Rescue project. Stephen Fry first travelled to Peru to investigate Paddington Bear's origins in the BBC documentary, "Paddington Bear: The Early Years". However, the surprise star of the show turned out to be a real live bear named Yogi. He was a Spectacled Bear so called due to the markings around the eyes but had been captured by the people of a s...
The Handbook of Acoustic Bat Detection (Bat Biology and Conservation)
by Volker Runkel, Guido Gerding, and Ulrich Marckmann
An accessible and comprehensive guide to all things acoustic bat detection. This highly illustrated handbook provides an in-depth understanding of acoustic detection principles, study planning, data handling, properties of bat calls, manual identification of species, automatic species recognition, analysis of results, quality assurance and the background physics of sound. No other method of detecting bats is so popular and widespread in the context of environmental assessment and voluntary work...
A comprehensive guide to the calls of the 44 species of bat currently known to occur in Europe. Following on from the popular British Bat Calls by Jon Russ, this new book draws on the expertise of more than forty specialist authors to substantially update all sections, further expanding the volume to include sound analysis and species identification of all European bats. Aimed at volunteers and professional alike, topics include the basics of sound, echolocation in bats, an introduction to acou...
Fluctuations in the Numbers of the Varying Hare (Lepus Americanus) (Heritage)
by D a Maclulich
Nucleosides, Nucleotides and their Biological Applications
by Janet L. Rideout and etc.
Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Their Biological Applications contains the proceedings of the Fifth International Round Table on Nucleosides, Nucleotides, and Their Biological Applications held at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina on October 20-22, 1982. Contributors focus on the biological applications of nucleosides and nucleotides, along with advances in synthetic chemistry. Topic range from fast-moving biochemical subjects such as the 2',5'-oligoadenylates and their relationship to interf...
Living Matter; Its Cycle of Growth and Decline in Animal Organisms
by Charles Asbury Stephens
Memoir on the Anatomy of the Humpback Whale, Megaptera Longimana
by John Struthers
Dugongs, Whales, Dolphins and Seals
by Michael Bryden, Peter Shaughnessy, and Helene Marsh
This is the first book to bring together the history and biology of the sea mammals that live in the oceans surrounding Australia and New Zealand. It has only recently been made possible because of the use of modern recording devices that can be attached to individual animals to record the conditions in which they live.
Velvety Free-Tailed Bat & Red Myotis Bat Composition Notebook
by Back to School Books
Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History)
Cellular and Molecular Biology of Gonadal Development and Maturation in Mammals
by S.S. Guraya
This book provides a critical, up-to-date review of the vast body of recent research on the cellular and molecular biology of development, differentiation and maturation of the ovary and testis in mammals including human. It also explores the current concepts and theories of gonadal differentiation as well as the origin, migration and structure of germ cells.
Ecological Observations on the Woodrat, Neotoma floridana
by Henry S Fitch
The Florida Panther (Endangered in America)
by Alvin Sliverstein, Dr Alvin Silverstein, A&v Silverstein and Laura Nunn, Dr Virginia Silverstein, and Laura Silverstein Nunn