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Zoology: the secret world of animals
Publisher
DK Publishing
Publication Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book - First American edition.
The animal kingdom
What is an animal?
Evolution
Types of animals
Beetle diversity
Fish and amphibians
Reptiles and birds
Mammals
Prehistoric paintings
Shape and size
Symmetry and asymmetry
Forming colonies
Radial symmetry
Symmetry in motion
The Darwinists
Comb jellies
Bodies with simple heads
Sexual differences
The renaissance eye
Segmented bodies
Vertebrate bodies
Frog body form
Shape shifters
Large and small
Fantasy beasts
Tall animals
Skeletons
Communal skeletons
Water skeletons
External skeletons
Exoskeletons on land
Chalky skeletons
Internal skeletons
Aboriginal insights
Vertebrate skeletons
Vertebrate shells
Bird skeletons
Cheetah
Mammal horns
Deer antlers
Skin, coats, and armor
Permeable skin
Getting oxygen
Toxic skin
Skin color
Forming a shell
Mollusk shells
Vertebrate scales
Reptile skin
Advertisement colors
In the mughal courts
Frills and dewlaps
Weapons and fighting
Blending in
Lichen katydid
Feathers
Flight feathers
Display plumage
Seasonal protection
Mammal fur
Expressionist nature
Skin glands
Horns from skin
Armored skin
Senses
Sensitive antennae
Sensory bristles
Small world
Sensory whiskers
Sensing under water
Tasting the air
Sensing heat
Electrical sense
Detecting light
Pupil shapes
Compound eyes
Color vision
Seeing depth
Common kingfisher
Scent detection
Smell in birds
Song birds
Smell in mammals
How animals hear
Mammal ears
Listening for echoes
Common dolphin
Mouths and jaws
Filter feeding
Christmas tree worms
Invertebrate jaws
Injecting venom
Vertebrate jaws
Bird bills
Bird bill shapes
Art of the ornithologist
Carnivore teeth
Giant panda
Eating plants
Flexible faces
Legs, arms, tentacles, and tails
Tube feet
Jointed legs
Vertebrate limbs
Vertebrate claws
Tiger
Sticky feet
Raptor feet
Climbing and perching
Mammal hooves
Alpine ibex
Arthropod pincers
Artists of the floating world
swinging through tree
Primate hands
Orangutan
Octopus arms
Stinging tentacles
Prehensile tails
Pintailed whydah
Fins, flippers, and paddles
Nekton and plankton
Blue dragon sea slug
How fish swim
Underwater wings
Fish fins
Swimming with the dorsal fin
Four-winged flying fish
Venomous spines
Empire of abundance
Walking on the seabed
Returning to water
Tail flukes
Wings and parachutes
Insect flight
Scaly wings
Gliding and parachuting
How birds fly
Lammergeier
Bird wings
Emperor penguin
Hovering
Egyptian birdlife
Wings of skin
Eggs and Offspring
Making eggs
Fertilization
Parental devotion
Polar bear
Shelled eggs
Bird eggs
Marsupial pouches
From larva to adult
Amphibian metamorphosis
Reaching maturity
Classification
Glossary.
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9781465482518
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