Principles of zoology / edited by Richard M. Renneboog.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Adaptive radiation -- Aging -- Amphibians -- Animal adaptations -- Animal aggregation -- Animal bioluminescence -- Animal cells -- Animal courtship -- Animal demographics -- Animal development : evolutionary perspective -- Animal domestication -- Animal embryology -- Animal emotions -- Animal evolution : historical perspective -- Animal growth -- Animal habituation and sensitization -- Animal immune systems -- Animal instincts -- Animal intelligence -- Animal kingdom -- Animal life of swamps and marshes -- Animal life spans -- Animal locomotion -- Animal mating -- Animal migration -- Animal physiology -- Animal reproduction -- Animal respiration and low oxygen -- Apes to hominids -- Arachnids -- Arthropods -- Asexual reproduction -- Beaks and bills -- Biodiversity -- Biological rhythms and behavior -- Biology -- Birds -- Birth -- Bone and cartilage -- Brain -- Breeding programs -- Camouflage -- Cannibalism -- Carnivores -- Cell determination and differentiation -- Circulatory systems of invertebrates -- Circulatory systems of vertebrates -- Claws, nails, and hooves -- Cloning of extinct or endangered species -- Coevolution -- Communication -- Communities -- Competition -- Convergent and divergent evolution -- Copulation -- Crustaceans -- Death and dying -- Digestion -- Digestive tract -- Dinosaurs -- Displays -- Ecological niches -- Ecology -- Ecosystems -- Embryonic development -- Endangered species -- Endocrine systems of invertebrates -- Endocrine systems of vertebrates -- Endoskeletons -- Estivation -- Estrus -- Evolution : animal life -- Evolutionary origin of sex differences -- Excretory system -- Exoskeletons -- Extinction -- Extinctions and evolutionary explosions -- Felidae -- Fertilization -- Fins and flippers -- Fish -- Food chains and food webs -- Gametogenesis -- Gas exchange -- Gene flow -- Genetic mutations -- Genetics -- Grooming -- Habitats and biomes -- Hardy-Weinberg Law of Genetic Equilibrium -- Hearing -- Herbivores -- Herds -- Hermaphroditism -- Heterochrony -- Hibernation -- Home building -- Homeosis -- Homo sapiens and human diversification -- Hormones and behavior -- Hybrid zones -- Hydrostatic skeletons -- Infanticide -- Ingestion in animals -- Insects -- Invertebrates -- Isolating mechanisms in evolution -- Jellyfish -- Lactation -- Language -- Learning -- Mammalian social systems -- Marine animals -- Marine biology -- Mark, release, and recapture methods -- Marsupials -- Metabolic rates in animals -- Metamorphosis -- Mimicry -- Molting and shedding -- Morphogenesis -- Multicellularity -- Muscles in invertebrates -- Muscles in vertebrates -- Nervous systems of vertebrates -- Nesting -- Neutral mutations and evolutionary clocks -- Nocturnal animals -- Nonrandom mating, genetic drift, and mutation -- Nutrient requirements of animals -- Offspring care -- Omnivores -- Osmoregulation -- Packs -- Pair-bonding -- pH maintenance in animals -- Phylogeny -- Placental mammals -- Plant and animal interactions -- Poisonous animals -- Pollution effects on animal life -- Population analysis -- Population genetics -- Predation -- Pregnancy and prenatal development in animals -- Prehistoric animals -- Primates -- Protozoa -- Punctuated equilibrium and continuous evolution -- Regeneration -- Reproductive strategies in animals -- Reproductive system of female animals -- Reproductive system of male mammals -- Reptiles -- Respiratory systems in animals -- Rodents -- Ruminants -- Savannas and animal life -- Scavengers -- Sense organs -- Sexual development -- Shells -- Sleep -- Smell -- Social hierarchies -- Symbiosis -- Tails -- Teeth, fangs, and tusks -- Tentacles -- Territoriality and aggression -- Thermoregulation -- Tool use -- Ungulates -- Urban and suburban wildlife -- Vertebrates -- Vocalizations -- Water balance in vertebrates -- Wildlife management -- Wings -- Zoology -- Zoos.

This book introduces the fundamentals of zoology, including the number and kinds of animal life on Earth plus what defines an animal species and its role in the natural world - its identity; where it lives and how; its relationships to other animals in its environment, and the environment itself; what it eats and what eats it; reproduction; and more. Covers topics such as Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Genetic Mutations and the like. Illustrated, with Appendixes and an Index.

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