Download or read book Animal Sizes written by Pam Holden and published by Flying Start Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals are all different shapes and sizes. Which one has enormous ears but tiny eyes? Which animal is the smallest? Which one has the longest tail? Do you know which animal is the biggest in the world?
Download or read book Animal Body Size written by Felisa A. Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-09 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo wrote that “nature cannot produce a horse as large as twenty ordinary horses or a giant ten times taller than an ordinary man unless by miracle or by greatly altering the proportions of his limbs and especially of his bones”—a statement that wonderfully captures a long-standing scientific fascination with body size. Why are organisms the size that they are? And what determines their optimum size? This volume explores animal body size from a macroecological perspective, examining species, populations, and other large groups of animals in order to uncover the patterns and causal mechanisms of body size throughout time and across the globe. The chapters represent diverse scientific perspectives and are divided into two sections. The first includes chapters on insects, snails, birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals and discusses the body size patterns of these various organisms. The second examines some of the factors behind, and consequences of, body size patterns and includes chapters on community assembly, body mass distribution, life history, and the influence of flight on body size.
Download or read book Animal Sizes Readaloud written by Pam Holden and published by Flying Start Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals are all different shapes and sizes. Which one has enormous ears but tiny eyes? Which animal is the smallest? Which one has the longest tail? Do you know which animal is the biggest in the world?
Download or read book Just the Right Size written by Nicola Davies and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses cartoon-style art and geometry to explain the relationship between an animal's size and its abilities.
Download or read book Animals Count written by Nancy Cushing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether their populations are perceived as too large, just right, too small or non-existent, animal numbers matter to the humans with whom they share environments. Animals in the right numbers are accepted and even welcomed, but when they are seen to deviate from the human-declared set point, they become either enemies upon whom to declare war or victims to be protected. In this edited volume, leading and emerging scholars investigate for the first time the ways in which the size of an animal population impacts how they are viewed by humans and, conversely, how human perceptions of populations impact animals. This collection explores the fortunes of amphibians, mammals, insects and fish whose numbers have created concern in settler Australia and examines shifts in these populations between excess, abundance, equilibrium, scarcity and extinction. The book points to the importance of caution in future campaigns to manipulate animal populations, and demonstrates how approaches from the humanities can be deployed to bring fresh perspectives to understandings of how to live alongside other animals.
Download or read book Animal Groups in Three Dimensions written by Julia K. Parrish and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first attempt to investigate this pervasive biological phenomenon from a variety of disciplines, from physics to mathematics to biology.
Download or read book A Guide to Sample Size for Animal based Studies written by Penny S. Reynolds and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand a foundational area of experimental design with this innovative reference Animal-based research is an essential part of basic and preclinical research, but poses a unique set of experimental design challenges. The most important of these are the 3Rs Replacement, Reduction and Refinement the principles comprising the ethical framework for humane animal-based studies. However, many researchers have difficulty navigating the design trade-offs necessary to simultaneously minimize animal use, and produce scientific information that is both rigorous and reliable. A Guide to Sample Size for Animal-Based Studies meets this need with a thorough, accessible reference work to the subject. This book provides a straightforward systematic approach to "right-sizing" animal-based experiments, with sample size estimates based on the fundamentals of statistical thinking: structured research questions, variation control and appropriate design of experiments. The result is a much-needed guide to planning animal-based experiments to ensure scientifically valid and reliable results. This book offers: Step-by-step guidance in diverse methods for approximating and refining sample size Detailed treatment of research topics specific to animal-based research, including pilot, feasibility and proof-of-concept studies Sample size approximation methods for different types of data binary, continuous, ordinal, time to event and different study types description, comparison, nested designs, reference interval construction and dose-response studies Numerous worked examples, using real data from published papers, together with SAS and R code A Guide to Sample Size for Animal-Based Studies is a must-have reference for preclinical and veterinary researchers, as well as ethical oversight committees and policymakers.
Download or read book My Big Book of the Animal Kingdom written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry written by South Africa. Division of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Track Pack written by Ed Gray and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy booklet contains actual-sized illustrations of the footprints and scat along with range maps and trail drawings of 35 common North American mammals.
Download or read book Does an Elephant Fit in Your Hand written by Laura Purdie Salas and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the range of sizes found in small animals, such as bee hummingbirds, dwarf geckos, and Kitti's hog-nosed bats, and large animals, such as whale sharks, saltwater crocodiles, and African elephants.
Download or read book Baby Animal Pop written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this showstopper of a picture book—a follow-on to Fall's 2010 Animal Pop!—children get close to five adorable baby animals through realistic LIFE-SIZE pop-outs! A baby bunny, a sweet lamb, a wobbly pony, a family of piglets, and a line of baby ducks following their mother almost magically unfold with the turn of a page. Depicted in beautiful National Geographic photography, the babies are shown in their actual size, so children will understand how big (or how little) they really are. Special photos and captions highlight awesome animal features, and the gentle text is amusing and fun. Supplemental spreads include "The First Year of Life," which gives a glimpse of a baby animalÕs development. The beauty and novelty of the big, appealing pop-outs make this book a treasure that children will want to open again and again. Baby Animal Pop! is a charming and well-timed selection for spring holiday gifts.
Download or read book Animal Sizes written by Patricia Whitehouse and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read and Learn is a collection of non-fiction books that help young readers discover and understand the world around them. Packed with fascinating facts and colour photographs, the series provides a bridge from the Foundation Stage into Key Stage 1.
Download or read book Paper Markers Monthly Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Animal Communication Networks written by P. K. McGregor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most animal communication has evolved and now takes place in the context of a communication network, i.e. several signallers and receivers within communication range of each other. This idea follows naturally from the observation that many signals travel further than the average spacing between animals. This is self evidently true for long-range signals, but at a high density the same is true for short-range signals (e.g. begging calls of nestling birds). This book provides a current summary of research on communication networks and appraises future prospects. It combines information from studies of several taxonomic groups (insects to people via fiddler crabs, fish, frogs, birds and mammals) and several signalling modalities (visual, acoustic and chemical signals). It also specifically addresses the many areas of interface between communication networks and other disciplines (from the evolution of human charitable behaviour to the psychophysics of signal perception, via social behaviour, physiology and mathematical models).
Download or read book Scaling written by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-07-27 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the importance of animal size. We tend to think of animal function in chemical terms and talk of water, salts, proteins, enzymes, oxygen, energy, and so on. We should not forget, however, that physical laws are equally important, for they determine rates of diffusion and heat transfer, transfer of force and momentum, the strength of structures, the dynamics of locomotion, and other aspects of the functioning of animal bodies. Physical laws provide possibilities and opportunities for an organism, yet they also impose constraints, setting limits to what is physically possible. This book aims to give an understanding of these rules because of their profound implications when we deal with animals of widely different size and scale. The reader will find that the book raises many questions. Remarkable and puzzling information makes it read a little like a detective story, but the last chapter, instead of giving the final solution, neither answers all questions nor provides one great unifying principle.
Download or read book Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry written by Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists of members for 1882-1903 issued in v. 1-22, after which they were published separately (wanting in v. 6 and v. 21).
