Author: M. L. Augee
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868400464
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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The echidna is one of the world's most extraordinary creatures. It has often been called a 'living fossil' and a 'primitive' mammal because of its unique ability to lay eggs and produce milk. Relatives of these bizarre creatures were walking the earth before primates had descended from the trees. And yet echidnas and their fellow monotreme, the platypus, are exceedingly well adapted to their environmental niche. This book describes the echidnas' lifestyle and the adaptations that have made it so biologically successful. Drawing on two centuries of scientific literature and years of devoted echidna research, the authors have come up with a fascinating book which will appeal not only to students of natural history but to the general reader. Accompanying the text are some remarkable anatomical illustrations by Anne Musser.
Author: M. L. Augee
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643092048
Category : Echidnas
Languages : en
Pages : 145
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"This book is based on Echidnas of Australia and New Guinea, first published as part of the Australian Natural History series"--Preface.
Author: John A. Long
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801872235
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Diagrams showing skeletal features and tooth structure and a glossary of technical terms are included.
Author: Ken Ashwell
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643103163
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Neurobiology of Monotremes brings together current information on the development, structure, function and behavioural ecology of the monotremes. The monotremes are an unusual and evolutionarily important group of mammals showing striking behavioural and physiological adaptations to their niches. They are the only mammals exhibiting electroreception (in the trigeminal sensory pathways) and the echidna shows distinctive olfactory specialisations. The authors aim to close the current gap in knowledge between the genes and developmental biology of monotremes on the one hand, and the adult structure, function and ecology of monotremes on the other. They explore how the sequence 'embryonic structure › adult structure › behaviour' is achieved in monotremes and how this differs from other mammals. The work also combines a detailed review of the neurobiology of monotremes with photographic and diagrammatic atlases of the sectioned adult brains and peripheral nervous system of the short-beaked echidna and platypus. Pairing of a detailed review of the field with the first published brain atlases of two of the three living monotremes will allow the reader to immediately relate key points in the text to features in the atlases and will extend a universal system of brain nomenclature developed in eutherian brain atlases by G Paxinos and colleagues to monotremes.
Author: Bruce M. Beehler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069116424X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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"Gazetteer of New Guinea ornithology [by] Jennifer L. Mandeville and William S. Peckover": pages 560-632.
Author: Louise Egerton
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741760496
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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There is nothing to beat the extraordinary wildlife of Australia. Its colourful parrots, its venomous snakes, its abundance of hopping marsupials and the strange, egg-laying Platypus - these are just a few of the players in a story that began hundreds of millions of year ago. Many members of Australia's wildlife live nowhere else on Earth. They are unique, the result of evolution on a continent that has been geographically isolated from the rest of the world for 38 million years. Wildlife of Australia is an account of how these animals have developed in response to changing climates and habitats. It describes their day-to-day habits, where they live, how they find partners and care for their young, and how they protect themselves and find food and shelter. Superbly illustrated with over 550 colour photographs by renowned wildlife photographer Jiri Lochman, the book also contains a list of scientific names, good zoos and wildlife parks, useful websites and books, and a comprehensive glossary. Wildlife of Australia reveals the fascinating worlds of the animals that live all around us on this ancient land but remain largely unnoticed.
Author: Alan F. Dixson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108426182
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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The first detailed account of post-copulatory sexual selection and the evolution of reproduction in mammals.
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Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226568709
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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World-renowned zoologist and photographer Naskrecki leads readers on a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Author: Robert S. Hill
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
ISBN: 1925261476
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 445
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The Australian vegetation is the end result of a remarkable history of climate change, latitudinal change, continental isolation, soil evolution, interaction with an evolving fauna, fire and most recently human impact. This book presents a detailed synopsis of the critical events that led to the evolution of the unique Australian flora and the wide variety of vegetational types contained within it. The first part of the book details the past continental relationships of Australia, its palaeoclimate, fauna and the evolution of its landforms since the rise to dominance of the angiosperms at the beginning of the Cretaceous period. A detailed summary of the palaeobotanical record is then presented. The palynological record gives an overview of the vegetation and the distribution of important taxa within it, while the complementary macrofossil record is used to trace the evolution of critical taxa. This book will interest graduate students and researchers interested in the evolution of the flora of this fascinating continent.
