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This book, Goat science covers quite a wide range and varieties of topics, from genetics and breeding, via nutrition, production systems, reproduction, milk and meat production, animal health and parasitism, etc., up to the effects of goat products on human health. In this book, several parts of them are presented within 18 different chapters.
Author(s): Sandor Kukovics
NA Pages
The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals
A great many stories of occurrences have been written into this volume, for the purpose of giving the reader all the facts in order that he may form his own opinions of the animal mentality displayed. Topics covered includes: Wild Animal Temperament and Individuality, The Language of Animals, The Most Intelligent Animals, The Rights of Wild Animals, Mental Traits of Wild Animals, The Higher Passions, The Morals of Wild Animals, The Baser Passions, Wild Animal Criminals and Crime.
Author(s): William T. Hornaday
NA Pages
This textbook explores the mechanisms and evolution of animal behavior, including neural, hormonal, and genetic substrates of behavior, foraging, anti-predator defenses, mating systems and sexual selection, social behavior, communication, parental care, kin selection and recognition, and territoriality. Associated laboratory exercises will provide hands-on experience for many of these concepts.
Author(s): wiki.org
NA Pages
Animal Breeding Methods Course Notes
This note covers the following topics: Overview of Animal Breeding, Matrix Algebra, Genetic Relationships, Writing a Linear Model, Animal Models, Genetic Change, Phantom Parent Groups, Maternal Genetic Effects, Multiple Traits, Non-Additive Genetic Effects, Random Regression Models, Breeding Objectives, Correlated Responses, Mating Systems, Dairy Cattle Notes, Genome Wide Selection, R Basics and Evolutionary Algorithms.
Author(s): L. R. Schaeffer
186 Pages
The introductory topics will cover various approaches to the study of animals and their behavior. Topics covered includes: Habitat selection, Nest site selection, territoriality, dispersal, migration, Feeding, Antipredator behavior, Sexuality, Mating and reproduction, Cooperation among conspecifics.
Author(s): Prof. Gerald E. Schneide
NA Pages
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology
The roots and origins of the terms presented in this dictionary were taken from textbooks and from the original literature. This exhaustive dictionary contains over 13,000 terms relating to invertebrate zoology, including etymologies, word derivations and taxonomic classification. Entries cover parasitology, nematology, marine invertebrates, insects, and anatomy, biology, and reproductive processes for the following phyla: Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Echiura, Entoprocta, Gastrotricha, Gnathostomulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Mesozoa, Mollusca, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Onychophora, Pentastoma, Phoronida, Placozoa, Platyhelminthes, Pogonophora, Porifera, Priapula, Rotifera, Sipuncula, and Tardigrada.
Author(s): Mary Ann Maggenti, Armand R. Maggenti and Scott Lyell Gardner
970 Pages
The book is divided into three parts. Part I provides an introduction to an elementary knowledge of animal structure, function, and development. Part II explains the principal branches of the animal kingdom. Part III is devoted to a necessarily brief consideration of certain of the more conspicuous and interesting features of animal ecology.
Author(s): Vernon L. Kellogg
NA Pages
A student's text book of zoology
This book covers the following topics: Protozoa to Chaetognatha, Amphioxus, Vertebrata, Tunicata, Enteropneusta, Echinodermata, Arthropoda, the Crustacea and Xiphosura, insects and Arachnida.
Author(s): Sedgwick Adam, Shipley and Lister Joseph Jackson
NA Pages
This note covers the following topics: Bio diversity, Cell Biology, Human Anatomy, Genetics, Developmental Biology, Economic Zoology and Origin of life.
Author(s): Government of Tamilnadu
303 Pages
The basics of Zoological Nomenclature (PDF 24P)
This note covers the following topics: History of scientific nomenclature, How are scientific names formed, Formation and treatment, Ruling principles of nomenclature, Principles of binominal nomenclature, Principles of homonymy and Principles of synonymy.
Author(s): Yves Samyn
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