Download or read book Animal Weapons written by Douglas J. Emlen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
Download or read book Animal Weapons and Defenses written by Janet Riehecky and published by Blazers. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toxic venom, bone-snapping jaws, record-shattering speed. Animals have mind-blowing weapons and defenses. Learn about the amazing features and adaptations that help animals hunt prey and defend themselves in the wild world of nature.
Download or read book Camouflage and Mimicry written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how animals use camouflage and mimicry as weapons and defences"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Teeth Claws and Jaws written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals use teeth, jaws, and claws as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Spines Horns and Armor written by Jody Sullivan Rake and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals use spines, horns, and armor as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Speed Strength and Stealth written by Jody Sullivan Rake and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals speed, strength, and stealth as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Animal Contests written by Ian C. W. Hardy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contests are an important aspect of the lives of diverse animals, from sea anemones competing for space on a rocky shore to fallow deer stags contending for access to females. Why do animals fight? What determines when fights stop and which contestant wins? Addressing fundamental questions on contest behaviour, this volume presents theoretical and empirical perspectives across a range of species. The historical development of contest research, the evolutionary theory of both dyadic and multiparty contests, and approaches to experimental design and data analysis are discussed in the first chapters. This is followed by reviews of research in key animal taxa, from the use of aerial displays and assessment rules in butterflies and the developmental biology of weapons in beetles, through to interstate warfare in humans. The final chapter considers future directions and applications of contest research, making this a comprehensive resource for both graduate students and researchers in the field.
Download or read book Poisons and Venom written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals use poison and venoms as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Speed Strength and Stealth written by Jody Sullivan Rake and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes animals that use spesed, strength, and stealth as weapons or defenses.
Download or read book Slime Poop and Other Wacky Animal Defenses written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals use slime, poop, and other wacky traits as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Camouflage and Mimicry written by Janet Riehecky and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2012 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how animals use camouflage and mimicry as weapons and defenses"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Deadly Weapons written by Joanne Mattern and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong jaws, razor-sharp teeth, exploding gases! Discover some of the super weapons in Earth's animal kingdom.
Download or read book Animals with Wicked Weapons written by Susan K. Mitchell and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the weapons that different animals have to protect themselves from predators.
Download or read book Surprising Animal Weapons and Defenses written by Teresa Klepinger and published by Capstone Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whether an animal is fighting to survive or trying to catch a meal, sometimes their best bet is a surprise attack. From hidden claws and tentacles to sideways fangs, other animals don't see these startling weapons and defenses coming"--
Download or read book Secret Weapons written by Thomas Eisner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives—arthropods—nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive. In 69 chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisner’s legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast of arthropods—as well as a few of their kin from Australia, Europe, and Asia—and observe at firsthand the nature and extent of the defenses that lie at the root of their evolutionary success. Here are the cockroaches and termites, the carpenter ants and honeybees, and all the miniature creatures in between, deploying their sprays and venom, froth and feces, camouflage and sticky coatings. And along with a marvelous bug’s-eye view of how these secret weapons actually work, here is a close-up look at the science behind them, from taxonomy to chemical formulas, as well as an appendix with instructions for studying chemical defenses at home. Whether dipped into here and there or read cover-to-cover, Secret Weapons will prove invaluable to hands-on researchers and amateur naturalists alike, and will captivate any reader for whom nature is a source of wonder.
Download or read book Hidden Animal Weapons and Defenses written by Teresa Klepinger and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When an animal's life is on the line, sometimes its best option is to pretend to be something it's not. From posing as poop to gluing dead bodies to their backs, check out some impressive ways that animals hide in order to survive"--
Download or read book Slimy and Smelly Animal Weapons and Defenses written by Mari Bolte and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2024 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a battle to survive, sometimes an animal's best defense is to gross out the enemy. From poop and slime to puke and gas, these slimy and smelly animal adaptations allow some disgusting animals to live to fight another day.
