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UNINA9910789731903321 |
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Autore |
Waldbauer Gilbert |
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Titolo |
How not to be eaten [[electronic resource] ] : the insects fight back / / Gilbert Waldbauer ; with illustrations by James Nardi |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012 |
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1-283-37354-8 |
9786613373540 |
0-520-95246-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Insects - Defenses |
Insects - Predators of |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Insects in the Web of Life -- 2. The Eaters of Insects -- 3. Fleeing and Staying under Cover -- 4. Hiding in Plain Sight -- 5. Bird Dropping Mimicry and Other Disguises -- 6. Flash Colors and Eyespots -- 7. Safety in Numbers -- 8. Defensive Weapons and Warning Signals -- 9. The Predators' Countermeasures -- 10. Protection by Deception -- Epilogue -- Selected References -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central-perhaps the central-aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys |
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an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910678554803321 |
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Titolo |
Judgments of the Administrative Tribunal of the International Labour Organisation |
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Geneva, : International Labour Office |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Labor laws and legislation, International |
International officials and employees - Legal status, laws, etc |
Travail - Droit international |
Fonctionnaires internationaux |
International Labour Organisation |
ruling |
Organisation internationale du travail |
jugement |
Entscheidungssammlung |
Internationale Sozialstandards |
Welt |
Entscheidungssammlung |
Administrative decisions. |
Trials, litigation, etc. |
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