Author: Herman Berkhoudt
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Category : Bill (Anatomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Touch and Taste in the Mallard (Anas Platyrhynchos L.)
Author: Herman Berkhoudt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bill (Anatomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bill (Anatomy)
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Waterfowl Damage and Control Methods in Ripening Grain
Author: C. Edward Knittle
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Category : Grain
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category : Grain
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Bird Sense
Author: Tim Birkhead
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883054X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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 interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it?Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour.There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 140883054X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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 interpret their environment and to interact with each other. Our affinity for birds is often said to be the result of shared senses - vision and hearing - but how exactly do their senses compare with our own? And what about a birds' sense of taste, or smell, or touch or the ability to detect the earth's magnetic field? Or the extraordinary ability of desert birds to detect rain hundreds of kilometres away - how do they do it?Bird Sense is based on a conviction that we have consistently underestimated what goes on in a bird's head. Our understanding of bird behaviour is simultaneously informed and constrained by the way we watch and study them. By drawing attention to the way these frameworks both facilitate and inhibit discovery, it identifies ways we can escape from them to seek new horizons in bird behaviour.There has never been a popular book about the senses of birds. No one has previously looked at how birds interpret the world or the way the behaviour of birds is shaped by their senses. A lifetime spent studying birds has provided Tim Birkhead with a wealth of observation and an understanding of birds and their behaviour that is firmly grounded in science.
Sensory and Motor Aspects of the Trigeminal System in the Mallard
Author: Josephus Johannes Aloysius Arends
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Category : Mallard
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Publisher:
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Category : Mallard
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Chemical Signals in Vertebrates 6
Author: R.L. Doty
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475796552
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This volume is an up-to-date treatise of chemosensory vertebrate research performed by over 200 scientists from 22 countries. Importantly, data from over 25 taxa of vertebrates are presented, including those from human beings. Unlike other volumes on this topic, a significant nurober of the contributions come from leading workers in the former Soviet Union and reflect studies within a wide variety of disciplines, including behavior, biochemistry, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, psychophysics, and morphol ogy. Most of the studies described in this volume were presented at the Chemical Signals in Vertbrates VI (CSV VI) symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1991. This international symposium was the largest and the most recent of a series of six such symposia, the first of which was held in Saratoga Springe, New York (June 6-9, 1976) and the last in Oxford, England (August 8-10, 1988). Unlike the previous symposia, Chemical Signals in Vertabrates VI lasted a full week, reflecting the increased number of participants and the desire of many to present their research findings orally to the group as a whole.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475796552
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This volume is an up-to-date treatise of chemosensory vertebrate research performed by over 200 scientists from 22 countries. Importantly, data from over 25 taxa of vertebrates are presented, including those from human beings. Unlike other volumes on this topic, a significant nurober of the contributions come from leading workers in the former Soviet Union and reflect studies within a wide variety of disciplines, including behavior, biochemistry, ecology, endocrinology, genetics, psychophysics, and morphol ogy. Most of the studies described in this volume were presented at the Chemical Signals in Vertbrates VI (CSV VI) symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1991. This international symposium was the largest and the most recent of a series of six such symposia, the first of which was held in Saratoga Springe, New York (June 6-9, 1976) and the last in Oxford, England (August 8-10, 1988). Unlike the previous symposia, Chemical Signals in Vertabrates VI lasted a full week, reflecting the increased number of participants and the desire of many to present their research findings orally to the group as a whole.
Fish and Wildlife Technical Report
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Category : Fishery management
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishery management
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Archives neerlandaises de zoologie
Author:
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Nucleus Basalis-neostriatum Complex in the Goose (Anser Anser L.)
Author: Cornelis Leonardus Veenman
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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The Organization of the Nucleus Basalis-neostriatum Complex in the Goose (Anser Anser L.)
Author: Cornelis Leonardus Veenman
Publisher:
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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Chemoreception Abstracts
Author:
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Category : Chemical senses
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chemical senses
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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