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Part of the series Monographs in population biology 12;Monographs in population biology 12.
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-346) and index.

Subjects:

• Insect societies.
• Insects — Ecology.
• Behavior, Animal.
• Ecology.
• Insects.

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Drawing on their own research as well as scientific literature including evolutionary biology, animal behavior, ecology, anthropology, psychology and neuroscience, two cetacean biologists submerge themselves in the unique environment in which whales and dolphins live. –Publisher’s description.
• Culture in the ocean? — Culture? — Mammals of the ocean — Song of the whale — What the dolphins do — Mother cultures of the large toothed whales — How do they do it? — Is this evidence for culture? — How the whales got culture — Whale culture and whale genes — The implications of Culture: ecosystems, individuals, stupidity, and conservation — The cultural whales: how we see them and how we treat them.

Subjects:

• Whales.
• Dolphins.
• Social behavior in animals.
• Animal communication.

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• Based in part on a meeting held Jan. 1986 in Gottingen (FRG) and sponsored by the European Sociobiological Society.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• The evolution of sex: DNA repair Hypothesis / Harris Bernstein — Sex-specific reproductive patterns in some terrestrial isopods / K. Eduard Linsenmair — Mate guarding in geese: awaiting female receptivity, protection of paternity or support of female feeding? / Jurg Lampprecht — Helping in dwarf mongoose societies: an alternative reproductive strategy / Anne E. Rasa — Reproductive strategies of female gelada baboons / Robin I.M. Dunbar — Reproductive strategies of subadult Barbary macaque males at Affenberg Salem / Futta Kuester — Infant mistreatment in langur monkeys — sociobiology tackled from the wrong end? / Volker Sommer — Human male-female differences in sexual desire / Donald Symons –Human courtship behavior: biological basis and cognitive processing / Karl Grammer — Reproduction and sex-ratio manipulation through preferential female infanticide among the Eipo, in the highlands of West New Guinea / Wulf Schiefenhovel — Women’s reproduction and longevity in a premodern population (Ostfriesland, Germany, 18th century) / Eckart Voland — Household composition and female reproductive strategies in a Trinidadian village / Mark V. Flynn — The sociocultural biology of Netsilingmiut female infanticide / Colin Irwin — The costs of children and the adaptive scheduling of births: towards a sociobiological perspective on demography / Nicholas G. Blurton Jones.

Subjects:

• Sexual behavior in animals — Congresses.
• Sex.
• Social behavior in animals — Congresses.
• Interpersonal relations — Congresses.
• Sociobiology — Congresses.
• Reproduction — Congresses.
• Reproduction — Congresses.
• Sexual Behavior — Congresses.
• Sexual Behavior, Animal — Congresses.
• Social Behavior — Congresses.
• 11030 organisms 21030 reproduction
• Reproduction
• Conference proceedings. fast (OCoLC)fst01423772

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-174) and index.
• Prologue — Introduction — The annals of extinction — Imagine — The bird — The downward spiral — Extinction : the causes — The last captives — Martha — Art and books — Quotations — Appendix : a magnificent flying machine.
• At the start of the nineteenth century, Passenger Pigeons were perhaps the most abundant birds on the planet, numbering literally in the billions. The flocks were so large and so dense that they blackened the skies, even blotting out the sun for days at a stretch. Yet by the end of the century, the most common bird in North America had vanished from the wild. In 1914, the last known representative of her species, Martha, died in a cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. –Jacket.

Subjects:

• Passenger pigeon.
• Extinct birds — North America.
• North America. fast (OCoLC)fst01242475

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-370).

Subjects:

• Crustacea — Larvae — Atlases.

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• Now covering more than 1,000 species with the most-detailed information found in a single volume –Cover.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 724-725) and index.
• Ducks, geese, and swans — Curassows and guans — New World quail — Partridges, grouse, and turkeys — Loons — Grebes — Flamingos — Albatrosses — Shearwaters and petrels — Storm-petrels — Tropicbirds — Storks — Frigatebirds — Boobies and gannets — Cormorants — Darters — Pelicans — Herons, bitterns, and allies — Ibises and spoonbills — New World vultures — Osprey — Hawks, kites, eagles, and allies — Rails, gallinules, and coots — Sungrebes — Limpkin — Cranes — Thick-knees — Stilts and avocets — Oystercatchers — Lapwings and plovers — Jacanas — Sandpipers, phalaropes, and allies — Coursers and pratincoles — Skuas and jaegers — Auks, murres, and puffins — Gulls, terns, and skimmers — Pigeons and doves — Cuckoos, roadrunners, and anis — Barn owls — Typical owls — Goatsuckers — Swifts — Hummingbirds — Trogons — Hoopoe — Kingfishers — Woodpeckers and allies — Caracaras and falcons — Lories, parakeets, macaws, and parrots — Tyrant flycatchers — Becards, tityras, and allies — Shrikes — Vireos — Crows and jays — Larks — Swallows — Chickadees and titmice — Penduline tits and verdins — Long-tailed tits and bushtits — Nuthatches — Creepers — Wrens — Gnatcatchers and gnatwrens — Dippers — Bulbuls — Kinglets — Leaf warblers — Sylviid warblers — Reed warblers — Grassbirds — Old World flycatchers — Thrushes — Mockingbirds and thrashers — Starlings — Accentors — Wagtails and pipits — Waxwings — Silky-flycatchers — Olive warbler — Longspurs and snow buntings — Wood-warblers — Incertae sedis (Bananaquit) — Tanagers — Emberizids — Cardinals and allies — Blackbirds — Fringilline and cardueline finches and allies — Old World sparrows — Weavers — Estrildid finches.
• Examines more than eighty avian families, including an overview of plumage, behavior, distribution, taxonomy, and conservation, and describes all 962 species, covering identification, similar species, voice, status, and distribution.

Subjects:

• Birds — North America.
• North America. fast (OCoLC)fst01242475
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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-167) and indexes.
• 1. The qualities that make up sentience — Why are we interested in sentience? — How do people view species perceived to be like us or unlike us? — The concept of sentience — Definitions and descriptions of components — 2. Ethics, morality, and attitudes — Ethics — Morality, selfishness and altruism — Obligations — Rights — Freedom — Brief history of attitudes to animals — 3. Animal welfare science : history and concepts — The history of animal welfare science — Before 1960 — The 1960s and 1970s — Post-1980 — The origins of the animal welfare concept — Welfare in relation to other concepts — Adaptation and welfare — Stress in relation to welfare — Needs and welfare — Health in relation welfare — Naturalness and welfare — Welfare and well-being — Quality of life in relation to welfare — Welfare and ‘a life worth living’ — Welfare in relation to sentience — 4. Brain complexity and cognitive ability — Brain function and brain size — Biology, brain function, brain structure and cognitive ability –Learning — Discrimination and recognition — Cognition — Range of cognitive abilities — Metacognition — Innovation — Cognitive bias — Variability among individuals and within populations — Capabilities for morality — The dangers of Occam’s Razor — 5. Feelings and emotions — Affect, feelings and emotions — Physiological systems of emotions and feelings — Mood — Cognition in relation to emotion — Pain — Fear — Anxiety — Various pleasures — Social affection — Guilt, anger and rage — Welfare in relation to feelings –
• 6. Awareness and consciousness — The meaning of awareness — Reporting perception and blind-sight — Consciousness — Assessing own actions and the actions of others — Concepts of the future — Concept of self — Awareness of others having concepts — Evolution of awareness — 7. Motivation and needs — Motivation — Needs — Freedoms — Welfare in relation to needs — Assessing what is important to animals — 8. Welfare assessment — Positive and negative welfare, short-term and long-term assessment — Behavioral, physiological and clinical indicators of poor welfare — Physiological measures — Behavioral measures — Disease, injury, movement and growth measures — Pain assessment — Indicators of good welfare including pleasure, happiness, good health — Reporting on happiness, or direct measurement? — Using information about preferences — Play and normal behaviour — Direct measures of good welfare — Integration of welfare measures — Risk and benefit analysis in animal welfare — Welfare reports and welfare outcome indicators for use in inspection — 9. Sentience during development, brain damage, and old age — Introduction : pre- and post-sentence — Sentience in embryos and fetuses — some developmental differences — Neural and pain system development — Awareness in the fetus — Sentience in young individuals — Sentience in brain-damaged and old individuals — Welfare during development, after brain damage and during old age — 10. Ethical decisions about humans and non-humans — Ethical decisions when sentience has been evaluated — Summary of which animals are sentient and when — Animal protection — Conclusions about sentience research and which animals to protect — Protection of the unborn child and other young — Protection of brain-damaged and senile persons and other animals — 11. Sustainability, welfare attitudes, and education — Sustainability — Changing ideas about product quality — Attitudes to animal welfare and consumer pressure — Welfare of wild animals, including pests — GM
• Beginning with an introduction to sentience, the book investigates why we are so interested in sentience when, as a species, humans became sentient and how it has changed over time. The book defines aspects of sentience such as consciousness, memory and emotions, and discusses brain complexity in detail. Looking at sentience from a developmental perspective, it analyzes when in an individual’s growth sentience can be said to appear and uses evidence from a range of studies investigating embryos, fetuses and young animals to form an enlightening overview of the subject. With a full chapter covering ethical decisions such as animal protection and experimentation, this book is not only an invaluable resource for researchers and students of animal welfare and biology, but also an engaging and informative read for veterinarians and the general public. –Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Emotions in animals.
• Consciousness in animals.
• Animal welfare.
• Animal Behavior.
• Emotions.
• Animal Welfare.
• Consciousness.
• Perception.
• Sensation.

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• Bird watcher’s digest.
• Watching–feeding–landscaping–nuturing — Cover.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• From the editor of the nation’s premier birding magazine, a no-nonsense, no-fluff quick guide to the birds you see every day. Of all the classic American pastimes, perhaps none is as widely accessible as watching birds. Our unusually vast, diverse environmental landscape supports fascinating species and variations exclusive to each region of the country. But while birders often spend their efforts in search of the rarest creatures, some of the most beautiful and intriguing birds are the ones that frequent our backyards (or nearby) daily. For that reason, where other, larger volumes focus on bird types that the casual observer is never likely to encounter, Midwestern Birds concisely celebrates those species living under our very noses. Written by Bill Thompson III, the editor and co-publisher of Bird Watcher’s Digest, this portable 5 x8 book contains the same variety of entertaining and informative entries that make Bird Watcher’s Digest the nation’s most popular birding magazine. Inside, you’ll find profiles of the 55 most common birds in the Midwest, complete with large color photos, gender-specific physical descriptions, nesting and feeding information, bird call particulars, and interesting stories about each species. Thompson also introduces the reader to the basics of bird watching: essential gear, bird-friendly food and plantings, housing tips, and observational techniques. This guide covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Look for our other backyard bird guides covering the Mid-Atlantic, South, Northeast, and West regions of the United States — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Birds — Middle West — Identification.
• Bird watching — Middle West — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Birds — Feeding and feeds — Middle West — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Bird attracting — Middle West — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• NATURE / Birdwatching Guides. bisacsh
• NATURE / Regional. bisacsh
• NATURE / Animals / Birds. bisacsh
• Bird attracting. fast (OCoLC)fst00832906
• Bird watching. fast (OCoLC)fst00832948
• Birds. fast (OCoLC)fst00832970
• Birds — Feeding and feeds. fast (OCoLC)fst00833013
• Middle West. fast (OCoLC)fst01240052
• Guidebooks. fast (OCoLC)fst01423871
• Handbooks, manuals, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01423877

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• pt. I. Constructing animals : animal categories — 1. Human-animal studies — Understanding animals and their uses — Real-world implications of human-animal studies — Coming to animal studies / Susan McHugh — 2. Animal-human borders — Non-Western understandings — Speciesism and the rise of the human-animal border — Evolution and the continuity between the species — 3. The social construction of animals — Systems of classification — The sociozoologic scale — The joy of chickens / Annie Potts — pt. II. Using animals : human-animal economies — 4. Animals in the wild and in human societies — Animals and humans in the Paleolithic Era — Subsistence hunting and the human-animal relationship — From subsistence to sport — Colonial expansion and animals — Hunting and conservation — Human-wildlife conflicts — The colonial animal / Walter Putnam — 5. The domestication of animals — History of domestication — Results of domestication — Altering the animal body — Coming to animals / Molly Mullin — 6. Display, performance, and sport — Zoos — Marine mammal parks — Circuses — Animal racing — Animal fighting — Working from within : an ethnographer in human-animal worlds / Garry Marvin — 7. The making and consumption of meat — Meat taboos — Meat consumption in the past — Modern meat production — The political economy of agribusiness — Slaughterhouse workers — Cultural implications of modern meat production and consumption — Ethics and meat eating — 8. The pet animal — Rise of pet keeping — Development of the modern pet industry — Human-pet relationship — Love and grief — Development of humane attitudes through pets — Contradictory attitudes toward pets — Pets and domination — Helping people, helping pets : working with VET SOS / Cheryl Joseph — 9. Animals and science — History of vivisection — Scope of animal research and testing — Animals as stand-ins for humans — Social construction of the lab animal — History of the anti-vivisection movement — Alternatives to animal resear
• pt. III. Attitudes toward animals — 11. Working with animals — Ethnographic fieldwork — Animal rescue volunteers — Shelter workers and veterinarians — Ranchers — Laboratory workers — Slaughterhouse workers — Working with people who work with animals / Clinton Sanders — 12. Violence to animals — Institutionalized violence to animals — Culture-specific violence — Deviant violence — The link between violence to animals and violence to humans — Domestic violence and animal abuse — Treatment and prevention — Legislation — AniCare : treating animal abuse / Kenneth Shapiro — 13. Human oppression and animal suffering — Interlinked systems of exploitation — Roots of oppression — Othering and essentializing — Sexism and speciesism — Racism, slavery, the Holocaust, and animal exploitation — Racism and animal advocacy — Capitalism and the expansion of oppression — Connecting the dots : legitimating oppressions / David Nibert — pt. IV. Imagining animals : animals as symbol — 14. Animals in human thought — Use of animals in human language — Animals as symbols — Animals in artwork — Mirrors for human identities — Animals and the creative arts / Carol Gigliotti — 15. Animals in religion and folklore — Animals in religious thought — Animal tales — animal-human transformations — Religious symbolism — Animal cults — Sacrificial lambs — Communities of faith and the ethical treatment of animals — What do animals and religion have to do with each other? / Laura Hobgood-Oster — 16. Animals in literature and film — Animals in literature — Animals in children’s literature — Talking animals — Animals in film and TV — Literary animal encounters / Philip Armstrong — pt. V. Knowing and relating to animals : animal behavior and animal ethics — 17. Animal behavior studies and ethology — Animal behavior studies and reductionism — Rise of modern ethology — Anthropomorphism — Animal intelligence — Animal emotions — Animal language — The animal self — Doing and saying in play between dogs

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• Human-animal relationships.
• Human-animal relationships — History.
• Animals and civilization — History.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-218) and index.
• Evolution & development. The evolution of bees Honey hunting and beekeeping The different bee groups The evolution and development of the honey bee Wild bees worldwide — Anatomy & biology. What makes bees different? Anatomy of a honey bee Flight and internal anatomy Bee senses Genetics Genomics and informatics Hormones– the endocrine system Immunology Pests and diseases Reproduction The bee’s life cycle Pollination — Society & behavior. Sociality Pathways to eusociality Reproductive division of labor Swarming Communication Dance communication Olfaction Navigation Foraging behavior Crafting Nesting Circadian rhythms Thermoregulation Changing behavior over time : temporal polyethism Defense and aggression Parenting Courtship Sexual reproduction Mating systems — Bees & humans. Ancient and modern knowledge Scientific research today An economic force Spirituality Islam, Judaism and Christianity Patron saints of beekeeping Political symbolism What if bees were to disappear? — Beekeeping. The basics Keeping other bees Ancient hive designs Langstroth hives Observation hives Data tracking Urban beekeeping Harvesting Natural beekeeping Swarming Integrated management Arthropod pests Bacterial, fungal and viral infections — A directory of bees. Solitary bees Bumble bees Stingless bees Honey bees — The challenges faced by bees. An introduction to bee losses Weather and climate Habitat loss Changes in agriculture Modern farming Agrochemicals Pests and diseases Other threats to bees Fear of bees Pollinators, the environment and conservation Research initiatives to help bees How we can help the bees.
• Bees pollinate more than 130 fruit, vegetable, and seed crops that we rely on to survive. Bees are crucial to the reproduction and diversity of flowering plants, while the economic contributions of these irreplaceable insects are measured in the tens of billions of dollars each year. Yet bees are dying at an alarming rate, threatening food supplies and ecosystems around the world. In this richly illustrated natural history of the bee, Noah Wilson-Rich and his team of bee experts provide a window into the vitally important role that bees play in the life of our planet.
• Earth is home to more than 20,000 bee species, from fluorescent-colored orchid bees and sweat bees to flower-nesting squash bees and leaf-cutter bees. This book takes an incomparable look at this astounding diversity, blending an engaging narrative with practical, hands-on discussions of such topics as beekeeping and bee health. It explores our relationship with the bee over evolutionary time, delving into how it came to be, where it stands today, and what the future holds for humanity and bees alike.
• *Provides an accessible, illustrated look at the human-bee relationship over time. *Features a section on beekeeping and handy go-to guides to the identification, prevention, and treatment of honey bee diseases. *Covers bee evolution, ecology, genetics, and physiology. *Includes a directory of notable bee species. *Presents a holistic approach to bee health, including organic and integrated pest management techniques. *Shows what you can do to help bee populations.

Subjects:

• Bees.
• Bee culture.

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