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  • Stupid as a Fish?

    The Surprising Intelligence Under Water

    by Horst Bleckmann ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Compared to mammals, fish are often underestimated and dismissed as less complex organisms. To refute this hasty conclusion, Horst Bleckmann presents to you the highly developed cognitive abilities of fish.Did you know, for example, that fish are the largest group of all vertebrates, with about 30,000 species, and that they colonize all aquatic habitats? For this immense feat, they have evolved a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Flow Sensing in Air and Water

    Behavioral, Neural and Engineering Principles of Operation

    Edited by Horst Bleckmann, Joachim Mogdans, Sheryl L. Coombs ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In this book, leading scientists in the fields of sensory biology, neuroscience, physics and engineering explore the basic operational principles and behavioral uses of flow sensing in animals and how they might be applied to engineering applications such as autonomous control of underwater or aerial vehicles.Although humans possess no flow-sensing abilities, countless aquatic (e.g. fish, ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Lateral Line System

    Edited by Sheryl Coombs, Horst Bleckmann, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The Lateral Line System provides an overview of the key concepts and issues surrounding the development, evolution, neurobiology, and function of the lateral line, a fascinating yet somewhat enigmatic flow-sensing system. The book examines the historical precedence for linking the auditory and lateral line systems, its structure and development, use of the lateral line system of zebrafish as a ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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    $10.99 USD

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  • Other Minds

    The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

    by Peter Godfrey-Smith ...
    Philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness in Other MindsAlthough mammals and birds are widely regarded as the smartest creatures on earth, it has lately become clear that a very distant branch of the tree of life has also sprouted higher intelligence: the cephalopods, consisting of the squid, the cuttlefish, and above all the octopus. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Where the Fish Are : A Science-Based Guide to Stalking Freshwater Fish

    A Science-Based Guide to Stalking Freshwater Fish

    by Daniel Bagur ...
    More science and less art leads to bigger fish and fewer talesMost anglers rely on advice from fishing buddies or books by well-known but unscientific anglers. Here is a book that distills the science of fish behavior into easy-to-follow advice on how to catch fish in any situation. Describing how feeding behavior in fish changes in response to fluctuations in dissolved oxygen, turbulence, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Octopus, Squid & Cuttlefish

    A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans' Most Advanced Invertebrates

    by Roger Hanlon, Michael Vecchione, Louise Allcock ...
    "Cephalopods are often misunderstood creatures. Three biologists set the record straight on the behaviors and evolution of these invertebrates of the sea." — Science NewsLargely shell-less relatives of clams and snails, the marine mollusks in the class Cephalopoda—Greek for "head-foot" —are colorful creatures of many-armed dexterity, often inky self-defense, and highly evolved cognition. They are ... Read more

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  • Bird Sense

    What It's Like to Be a Bird

    by Tim Birkhead ...
    What is it like to be a swift, flying at over one hundred kilometres an hour? Or a kiwi, plodding flightlessly among the humid undergrowth in the pitch dark of a New Zealand night? And what is going on inside the head of a nightingale as it sings, and how does its brain improvise?Bird Sense addresses questions like these and many more, by describing the senses of birds that enable them to ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Geomorphic Analysis of River Systems

    An Approach to Reading the Landscape

    by Kirstie A. Fryirs, Gary J. Brierley ...
    Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, this introductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvial geomorphology.‘Reading the landscape’ entails making sense of what a riverscape looks like, how it works, how it has evolved over time, and how alterations to one part of a catchment may have secondary consequences elsewhere, over different timeframes. These place-based field ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Bird Biology

    Edited by Irby J. Lovette, John W. Fitzpatrick ...
    Selected by Forbes.com as one of the 12 best books about birds and birding in 2016This much-anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Bird Biology is an essential and comprehensive resource for everyone interested in learning more about birds, from casual bird watchers to formal students of ornithology. Wherever you study birds your enjoyment will be enhanced by a better understanding of the ... Read more

    $126.00 USD

  • Bats Sing, Mice Giggle

    The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives

    by Jagmeet Kanwal, Karen Shanor ...
    "Bats Sing, Mice Giggle" tracks many years of research by hundreds of scientists that reveals how wild animals, as well as pets, have inner, secret lives of which until recently - although many animal lovers will have instinctively believed it - we have had little proof. The authors show how animal 'friends' stay in touch, and how they warn and help each other in times of danger; how some animals ... Read more

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  • Biological Oceanography

    by Charles B. Miller, Patricia A. Wheeler ...
    This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other.The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, ... Read more

    $67.00 USD