Category: Mammals

By Devra G. Kleiman, Katerina V. Thompson, Charlotte Kirk Baer

Zoos, aquaria, and flora and fauna parks are important facilities of animal conservation and administration. for almost fifteen years, those associations have depended on Wild Mammals in Captivity because the crucial reference for his or her paintings. Now the e-book reemerges in a very up to date moment variation. Wild Mammals in Captivity provides the most up-tp-date pondering and perform within the care and administration of untamed mammals in zoos and different associations. in a single finished quantity, the editors have accrued the most up-tp-date info from reviews of animal habit; advances in captive breeding; study in body structure, genetics, and nutrients; and new pondering in animal administration and welfare.             during this version, greater than three-quarters of the textual content is new, and data from greater than seventy-five members is punctiliously up-to-date. the traditional textual content for all classes in zoo biology, Wild Mammals in Captivity will, in its new incarnation, remain utilized by zoo managers, animal caretakers, researchers, and an individual with an curiosity in how you can deal with animals in captive conditions. 

By Devra G. Kleiman, Valerius Geist, Melissa C. McDade, Joseph E. Trumpey

Gale proudly provides the 1st thoroughly revised and up to date model of this acclaimed set in 30 years. a few reviewers name < I>Grzimek's Animal existence Encyclopedia< /I> the simplest reference paintings on animals ever released. Others name it the legacy left to us through famed zoologist and animal lover, Bernhard Grzimek. The accolades and compliment cross on for the most recent addition to Gale's line of reference titles. the unique 13-vol. set, released in Germany within the past due Sixties, is across the world popular for its medical reporting, assurance and illustrations, and serves as a big element of reference for researchers and scholars learning the animal country. Thorough articles familiarize readers with animals came across far and wide at the globe, detailing their lifestyles cycles, predators, nutrition platforms, total ecology and lots more and plenty extra. Staying precise to the unique clinical pedigree, Gale enlisted favorite advisors and participants from the foreign medical neighborhood to include contemporary advancements within the animal international. Our new variants of < I>Grzimek's Animal existence Encyclopedia< /I> are certain to serve the wishes of scholars at each educational point.

By David Macdonald, Andrew Loveridge

The editors make the most of their 50 years of mixed event in expert engagement with the behaviour and ecology of untamed felids to attract jointly a distinct community of the world's most dear and a professional specialists. For the 1st time, this inter-disciplinary learn programme is introduced jointly inside a unmarried quantity.

Beginning with a whole account of all 36 felid species, there stick with eight complete assessment chapters that span all of the issues such a lot appropriate to felid conservation technological know-how, together with evolution and systematics, felid shape and serve as, genetic purposes, behavioural ecology, administration of species that come into clash with humans and regulate of foreign exchange in felid species, conservation tools/techniques, ex situ administration, and felid illnesses. 19 specific case reviews then delve deeply into syntheses of some of the best species investigations world wide, written via all of the major figures within the box. those chapters painting the original attributes of the wild felids, describe their attention-grabbing (and conflicting) courting with people, and create an extraordinary platform for destiny examine and conservation measures. a last bankruptcy analyses the necessities of, and inter-disciplinary ways to, useful conservation with state-of-the-art examples of conservation technology and motion that pass a long way past the cat family.

By Andrea Beck

An Elliot booklet for kids

By Olaus Johan Murie

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By Angela R. Glatston

Crimson Panda: Biology and Conservation of the 1st Panda presents a broad-based evaluation of the biology of the crimson panda, Ailurus fulgens. A carnivore that feeds virtually fullyyt on vegetable fabric and is coloured chestnut pink, chocolate brown and cream instead of the predicted black and white. This ebook gathers all of the info that's to be had at the pink panda either from the sphere and captivity in addition to from cultural facets, and makes an attempt to respond to that the majority primary of questions, "What is a purple panda?" Scientists have lengthy desirous about the crimson panda's debatable taxonomy. Is it in reality an outdated global procyonid, a really unusual undergo or just a panda? All of those hypotheses are addressed in an try to classify a distinct species and supply an in-depth examine the clinical and conservation-based matters urgently dealing with the crimson panda at the present time. pink Panda not just offers an summary of the present country of our wisdom approximately this exciting species however it is usually meant to carry the purple panda out of obscurity and into the highlight of public consciousness. Wide-ranging account of the pink panda (Ailurus fulgens) covers the entire info that's on hand in this species either in and ex situ. Discusses the prestige of the species within the wild, examines how human actions effect on their habitat, and develops projections to translate this by way of total panda numbers. studies on prestige within the wild, seems to be at conservation concerns and considers the way forward for this specified species. comprises contributions from long-standing crimson panda specialists in addition to these focusing on fields regarding state-of-the-art purple panda examine.

By M. Finkelstein, A. Klopper, C. Conti

Learn on Steroids includes the court cases of the Fourth assembly of the foreign examine workforce for Steroid Hormones. The papers discover the creation, chemical characterization, and metabolism of steroid hormones and their interactions with proteins. themes variety from the motion of estradiol in vitro to water-soluble metabolites of estrogens, shipping of steroids by means of proteins, and immunological features of steroid hormones. The binding of steroids by way of tissue proteins is usually mentioned, besides using particular plasma proteins for the selection of steroids.
This quantity is constituted of 38 chapters and starts with an summary of the overall elements of steroid-protein interplay, via a dialogue on quantitative stories of steroid binding proteins; aromatization of testosterone by way of human placenta enzymes; courting among plasma binding and 5α-reduction of testosterone; cortisol-binding ability of plasma transcortin in topics handled with quite a few anabolic steroids; and plasma testosterone binding capability and estrogen excretion in basic and pathological pregnancies. next chapters take care of the interplay among estrogenic and carcinogenic elements within the rat mammary gland; effect of steroid creation on serum albumin in Cushing's syndrome; and nuclear estradiol binding proteins within the uterus.
This booklet could be of curiosity to biochemists, biologists, and physiologists.

By Manuel Ruiz-garcia, Joseph Mark Shostell

By T. Tsuda, Y. Sasaki, R. Kawashima

This quantity is made from invited papers offered on the 7th foreign Symposium on Ruminant body structure, held in Sendai, Japan, in September 1989. Papers are invited at the options of three hundred overseas specialists. The complaints of this symposia presents the main finished assurance to be had of present examine in ruminant physiology.

By V. H. T. James, J. R. Pasqualini

Proceedings of the Fourth foreign Congress on Hormonal Steroids includes plenary speeches and symposia from the Fourth overseas Congress on Hormonal Steroids held in Mexico urban in September 1974