Practical Zoology By Uttarakhand Open University

Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization

This book covers the following topics: Ancestry of the Domesticated Dogs, Value of the Strength of the Horse to Man, The Flocks And Herds: Beasts For Burden, Food and Raiment, Effect of this Group of Animals on Man, Domesticated Birds, Useful Insects, The Rights Of Animals, The Conditions of Domestication.

Author(s): Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

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A Guide for the Study of Animals

This guide to the study of animals is intended for pupils in secondary schools. Topics covered includes: Introductory Studies of Living Animals, Studies of Insects, The Connection between Structure and Function, Adaptation to Surroundings, Adaptation for Protection from Enemies, Vertebrates, Adaptations for the Preservation of the Species, Poultry.

Author(s): Worrallo Whitney, Frederic Lucas, Harold Shinn and Mabel Smallwood

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Artistic Anatomy of Animals

This is a great book for both artists and those interested in animal anatomy. Topics covered includes: Generalities of Comparative Anatomy, Osteology And Arthrology, Myology, Epidermic Products of The Extremities of the Fore and Hind Limbs, Proportions of the Head of The Horse, The Paces of The Horse.

Author(s): Edouard Cuyer

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Common Diseases of Farm Animals

In preparing the material for this book, the author has endeavored to arrange and discuss the subject matter in a way to be of the greatest service and help to the agricultural student and stockman, and place at their disposal a text and reference book.The general discussions at the beginning of the different sections and chapters, and the discussions of the different diseases are naturally brief.The chapters have been grouped under the necessary heads, with review questions at the end of each chapter, and the book divided into seven parts.

Author(s): R. A. Craig

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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

Elementary Zoology

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

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Zoological Illustrations

The book Zoological Illustrations, describes the original figures and descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals, Selected Chiefly from the Classes of Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology, and Arranged on the Principles of Cuvier and Other Modern Zoologists by William Swainson, F.R.S., F.L.S., member of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh.

Author(s): William Swainson

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General Zoology Lecture Notes and Handouts

This note covers the following topics: Introduction to Animals, Animal Characteristics, Taxonomy and Classification, Phylum Placozoa, Phylum Porifera, Phylum Cnidaria, Coral Reefs, Phylum Rotifera, Phylum Nematoda, Phylum Mollusca, Phylum Echinodermata and Phylum Chordata.

Author(s): Stephen W. Ziser

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The mismeasure of islands implications for biogeographical theory and the conservation of nature (21P)

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Author(s): NA

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Notes on the Indo Australian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera Formicidae)

This paper brings up to date the information available on Indo-Australian basicero tines. A second Rhopalothrix species is described and two new Melanesian Eurhopalothrix species are added, along with systematic and distributional notes on some older species, and a key to the Indo- Australian fauna.

Author(s): Taylor, R. W

17 Pages