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New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, b...

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Mammals

Birds

Zookeeping An Introduction to the Science and Technology

Irwin Mark, Stoner John B., Cobaugh Aaron M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226925318, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
688 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 85 halftones, 55 line drawings, 48 tables

As species extinction, environmental protection, animal rights, and workplace safety issues come to the fore, zoos and aquariums need keepers who have the technical expertise and scientific knowledge to keep animals healthy, educate the public, and c...

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Art of Migration Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226046297, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
128 pp., 15.2x20.3 cm, 54 colour illus.

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as p...

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Anthropology

Birds

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...

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