The exultant ark [[electronic resource] ] : a pictorial tour of animal pleasure / / Jonathan Balcombe |
Autore | Balcombe Jonathan <1959-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley [Calif.], : University of California Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina | 591.5022/2 |
Soggetto topico |
Emotions in animals
Animal behavior Pleasure |
Soggetto non controllato |
animal behavior
animal chase animal cognition animal feelings animal kingdom animal play animal pleasure animal rights animal animalia animals having fun animals babblers baboons biology bull elk life sciences macaques marmots monkeys nature photography nature nonfiction photography pleasure polar bears science snowflakes wildlife wrestling zoology |
ISBN |
1-283-27777-8
9786613277770 0-520-94864-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- Play -- Food -- Touch -- Courtship and Sex -- Love -- Comfort -- Companionship -- Other Pleasures -- Conclusion: implications of animal pleasure -- Notes -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781298703321 |
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Return to the sea [[electronic resource] ] : the life and evolutionary times of marine mammals / / Annalisa Berta ; illustrated by James L. Sumich and Carl Buell |
Autore | Berta Annalisa |
Edizione | [First edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (222 pages) |
Disciplina | 599.5/138 |
Soggetto topico |
Marine mammals - Evolution
Marine animals - Evolution |
Soggetto non controllato |
bioscience books
climate change and animals climate change and the ocean elephant seals evolution evolutionary biologist extinct mammals extinct marine life global warming history of mammals history of the sea humans and marine life mammal evolution mammal zoology marine biology students marine evolution marine food webs marine history marine life history marine mammal science marine species natural history oceanography books polar bears predator and prey walruses whales and dolphins zoology |
ISBN |
1-280-59330-X
9786613623133 0-520-95144-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Marine Mammals -- Chapter Two. Past Diversity in Time and Space, Paleoclimates, and Paleoecology -- Chapter Three. Pinniped Diversity, Evolution, and Adaptations -- Chapter Four. Cetartiodactylan Diversity, Evolution, and Adaptations -- Chapter Five. Diversity, Evolution, and Adaptations of Sirenians and Other Marine Mammals -- Chapter Six. Ecology and Conservation -- Glossary -- Further Reading and Online Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779154403321 |
Berta Annalisa
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