THIS addition to the long shelf of text-books of zoology has some fresh features ... Throughout the book prominence is given to the study of animal behaviour and the environmental conditions.

This thought-provoking book will ask what it is to be human, what to be animal, and what are the natures of the relationships between them. This is accomplished with philosophical and ethical ...

Zoology is the scientific study of animals. This discipline can include animal anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, genetics, evolution, ecology, behaviour and conservation. Statistical analyses ...

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, ...

Simon Barnes’ A History of the World in 100 Animals is a look at 100 animal species and taxa ... shaped at least in part by humans. The book weaves zoology, biology, evolution, and culture ...