Zoology the secret world of animals 1st Edition by Smithsonian 0744022797 9780744022797

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ISBN-10 :  0744022797 

ISBN-13 :  9780744022797

Author:  Smithsonian 

See the animal kingdom in all its glory, from jellyfish to polar bears, with up-close details of their unique features from head to toe. Filled with magnificent photographs that were specially commissioned for this book and cannot be seen anywhere else. Written in association with the Smithsonian Institution. This visual reference book starts with the question “what is an animal?” and takes you through the animal kingdom – mammals, reptiles, birds, and sea creatures. It uses a unique head-to-toe approach that showcases in spectacular detail special features like the flight feathers of a parrot, the antenna of a moth, or the tentacles of coral. This visual encyclopedia is filled with clear and fascinating information on everything about the social lives of animals. Read exciting stories like how animals communicate, defend their territories, and attract mates. Learn how evolution has helped wildlife to adapt to their unique environments, whether it’s the ability to live in difficult habitats, adjust to specific diets, or how they work physically. Humans have drawn and painted animals for thousands of years. Zoology has included some of these, like early rock art that depicts our awe of the animal kingdom or natural history artworks like those commissioned by the Mughal Courts in the 1600s. Dramatic Wildlife Photography Spectacular, never-before-seen photographs that will bring you close to many of the world’s most captivating and intriguing inhabitants. This book offers an extraordinary introduction to the animal world by taking you through chapters that details their diversity. Go from head to toe in Zoology: – The animal kingdom – Shape and size – Skeletons – Skins, coats, and armor – Senses – Mouth and jaws – Legs, arms, tentacles, and tails – Fins, flippers, and paddles – Wings and parachutes – Eggs and offspring

Zoology the secret world of animals 1st Table of contents:

1. the animal kingdom
2. what is an animal?
3. evolution
4. types of animals
5. beetle diversity
6. fish and amphibians
7. reptiles and birds
8. mammals
9. prehistoric paintings
10. shape and size
11. symmetry and asymmetry
12. forming colonies
13. radial symmetry
14. symmetry in motion
15. the darwinists
16. comb jellies
17. bodies with simple heads
18. sexual differences
19. the renaissance eye
20. segmented bodies
21. vertebrate bodies
22. frog body form
23. shape shifters
24. large and small
25. fantasy beasts
26. tall animals
27. skeletons
28. communal skeletons
29. water skeletons
30. external skeletons
31. exoskeletons on land
32. chalky skeletons
33. internal skeletons
34. aboriginal insights
35. vertebrate skeletons
36. vertebrate shells
37. bird skeletons
38. cheetah
39. mammal horns
40. deer antlers
41. skin, coats, and armor
42. permeable skin
43. getting oxygen
44. toxic skin
45. skin color
46. forming a shell
47. mollusk shells
48. vertebrate scales
49. reptile skin
50. advertisement colors
51. in the mughal courts
52. frills and dewlaps
53. weapons and fighting
54. blending in
55. lichen katydid
56. feathers
57. flight feathers
58. display plumage
59. seasonal protection
60. mammal fur
61. expressionist nature
62. skin glands
63. horns from skin
64. armored skin
65. senses
66. sensitive antennae
67. sensory bristles
68. small world
69. sensory whiskers
70. sensing under water
71. tasting the air
72. sensing heat
73. electrical sense
74. detecting light
75. pupil shapes
76. compound eyes
77. color vision
78. seeing depth
79. common kingfisher
80. scent detection
81. smell in birds
82. song birds
83. smell in mammals
84. how animals hear
85. mammal ears
86. listening for echoes
87. common dolphin
88. mouths and jaws
89. filter feeding
90. christmas tree worms
91. invertebrate jaws
92. injecting venom
93. vertebrate jaws
94. bird bills
95. bird bill shapes
96. art of the ornithologist
97. carnivore teeth
98. giant panda
99. eating plants
100. flexible faces
101. legs, arms, tentacles, and tails
102. tube feet
103. jointed legs
104. vertebrate limbs
105. vertebrate claws
106. tiger
107. sticky feet
108. raptor feet
109. climbing and perching
110. mammal hooves
111. alpine ibex
112. arthropod pincers
113. artists of the floating world
114. swinging through trees
115. primate hands
116. orangutan
117. octopus arms
118. stinging tentacles
119. prehensile tails
120. pintailed whydah
121. fins, flippers, and paddles
122. nekton and plankton
123. blue dragon sea slug
124. how fish swim
125. underwater wings
126. fish fins
127. swimming with the dorsal fin
128. four-winged flying fish
129. venomous spines
130. empire of abundance
131. walking on the seabed
132. returning to water
133. tail flukes
134. wings and parachutes
135. insect flight
136. scaly wings
137. gliding and parachuting
138. how birds fly
139. lammergeier
140. bird wings
141. emperor penguin
142. hovering
143. egyptian birdlife
144. wings of skin
145. eggs and offspring
146. making eggs
147. fertilization
148. parental devotion
149. polar bear
150. shelled eggs
151. bird eggs
152. marsupial pouches
153. from larva to adult
154. amphibian metamorphosis

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