Comprehensive guide to the animals of North America. Fully illustrated with drawings and photographs. User-friendly format makes comparing species easy.
Organized for in-the-field use or at-home reference, this guide brings together text, line drawings, range maps, and more than 1,000 color photographs to illustrate and describe the tracks and sign left by North American mammals -- feeding signs, scat, burrows, tunnels, bedding areas, rubbings, remains, and 104 life-size tracks.
Songbirds, waterfowl, owls, shorebirds, warblers, woodpeckers, nightjars, birds of prey Dozens of feather groups photographed in color A sighting in the field is just one way birders can identify bird species. Observant nature-lovers can discover what birds are where by examining tracks, trails, and a variety of bird sign: discarded feathers, feeding leftovers and caches, pellets, nests, droppings, and skulls and bones. This fully illustrated guide--the first of its kind for North American birds--presents thorough and straightforward instruction for identifying bird families or individual species by careful examination of the unique sign they leave behind. It also offers keys to the birds' behavior in the wild.
Krone der Schöpfung? Vor 100 000 Jahren war der Homo sapiens noch ein unbedeutendes Tier, das unauffällig in einem abgelegenen Winkel des afrikanischen Kontinents lebte. Unsere Vorfahren teilten sich den Planeten mit mindestens fünf weiteren menschlichen Spezies, und die Rolle, die sie im Ökosystem spielten, war nicht größer als die von Gorillas, Libellen oder Quallen. Vor 70 000 Jahren dann vollzog sich ein mysteriöser und rascher Wandel mit dem Homo sapiens, und es war vor allem die Beschaffenheit seines Gehirns, die ihn zum Herren des Planeten und zum Schrecken des Ökosystems werden ließ. Bis heute hat sich diese Vorherrschaft stetig zugespitzt: Der Mensch hat die Fähigkeit zu schöpferischem und zu zerstörerischem Handeln wie kein anderes Lebewesen. Anschaulich, unterhaltsam und stellenweise hochkomisch zeichnet Yuval Harari die Geschichte des Menschen nach und zeigt alle großen, aber auch alle ambivalenten Momente unserer Menschwerdung.
Complete with glossary and bibliography, this book is a must have for every serious student of mammology. Illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume uses two or more pairs of contrasting characters in the keys.
Wer Warrior werden will, muss auch trainieren wie ein Warrior! Gute Kampfsportler verfügen nicht nur über eine große Bandbreite an Kampftechniken, sondern auch über enorme Kraft, Schnelligkeit, Ausdauer und Beweglichkeit. Der erfahrene Kampfsportexperte Martin Rooney hat ein bewährtes Trainingssystem entwickelt, das auf den speziellen Anforderungen der Sportarten Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Submission Grappling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu und Judo basiert. Seine Übungen trainieren gezielt die Muskelgruppen und Bewegungsmuster, die im Kampf gefordert werden, und tragen so dazu bei, die Kampftechniken in ebendiesen Sportarten zu perfektionieren. Das achtwöchige Trainingsprogramm leitet Schritt für Schritt dazu an, Ausdauer, Schnelligkeit, Kraft und Kraftausdauer zu verbessern. Zudem gibt Rooney Tipps zur Ernährung, zum Gewichtmachen, zur Prävention und Rehabilitation von Verletzungen ebenso wie zur richtigen mentalen Einstellung. Egal ob Profiathlet oder Freizeitsportler – dieses extrem wirkungsvolle Workout-Programm verwandelt jeden Kampfsportler in einen echten Warrior.
A Guide to Following Footprints and Finding Animals
Author: Mark Elbroch,Louis Liebenberg,Dr Adriaan Louw
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811741273
Category: Nature
Page: 352
View: 2484
Techniques from international tracking experts applicable to any quarry and terrain. How to follow and find elk, deer, bears, cougars, lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos, and cape buffalo.
A field guide to mammals in North America includes information about each animal's physical characterstics, appearance, habitat and range, sounds, and behaviors.
The biological sciences cover a broad array of literature types, from younger fields like molecular biology with its reliance on recent journal articles, genomic databases, and protocol manuals to classic fields such as taxonomy with its scattered literature found in monographs and journals from the past three centuries. Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition is an annotated guide to selected resources in the biological sciences, presenting a wide-ranging list of important sources. This completely revised edition contains numerous new resources and descriptions of all entries including textbooks. The guide emphasizes current materials in the English language and includes retrospective references for historical perspective and to provide access to the taxonomic literature. It covers both print and electronic resources including monographs, journals, databases, indexes and abstracting tools, websites, and associations—providing users with listings of authoritative informational resources of both classical and recently published works. With chapters devoted to each of the main fields in the basic biological sciences, this book offers a guide to the best and most up-to-date resources in biology. It is appropriate for anyone interested in searching the biological literature, from undergraduate students to faculty, researchers, and librarians. The guide includes a supplementary website dedicated to keeping URLs of electronic and web-based resources up to date, a popular feature continued from the third edition.
A Companion to Forensic Anthropology presents the most comprehensive assessment of the philosophy, goals, and practice of forensic anthropology currently available, with chapters by renowned international scholars and experts. Highlights the latest advances in forensic anthropology research, as well as the most effective practices and techniques used by professional forensic anthropologists in the field Illustrates the development of skeletal biological profiles and offers important new evidence on statistical validation of these analytical methods. Evaluates the goals and methods of forensic archaeology, including the preservation of context at surface-scattered remains, buried bodies and fatal fire scenes, and recovery and identification issues related to large-scale mass disaster scenes and mass grave excavation.
A Folding Pocket Guide to the Bones of Common North American Animals
Author: James Kavanagh,Waterford Press
Publisher: Waterford Press
ISBN: 9781583557969
Category: Nature
Page: N.A
View: 4718
This Duraguide teaches how to identify the skulls and bones of common North American mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fishes. Indulge your inner explorer and learn how to infer the behavior of animals based on their skull and limb shape and dental patterns. This nearly indestructible guide also features step-by-step instructions for preparing and preserving specimens.
George A. Feldhamer,Bruce C. Thompson,Joseph A. Chapman
Author: George A. Feldhamer,Bruce C. Thompson,Joseph A. Chapman
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874161
Category: Nature
Page: 1216
View: 6184
"An essential for any professional in the areas of wildlife management or biology, and of great value to anyone interested in the life histories of North American mammals." -- Northeastern Naturalist