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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships
ISBN: HB: 9780226121857, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
232 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 120 line illus.
Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. T...
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Great Plains America's Lingering Wild
ISBN: HB: 9780226257259, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
256 pp., 27.9x31 cm, 150 colour illus.
The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endanger...
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£34,00
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories
ISBN: PB: 9780226122021, ISBN: HB: 9780226121994, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
212 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 108 line illus.
The natural world is filled with diverse – not to mention quirky and odd – animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the...
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Deep The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
ISBN: HB: 9780226595665, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
256 pp., 30.7x26.1 cm, 220 colour illus.
On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters – the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 met...
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£45,00
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Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network
ISBN: PB: 9780226493466, ISBN: HB: 9780226493459, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
688 pp., 23x15 cm, 170 tables, 4 halftones, 130 line illus.
Long-term Forest Dynamics Plots (FDPs) allow ecologists to explain patterns in diversity and dynamics in tropical forests around the world. In this collection, Elizabeth Losos and Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. assemble extensive standardized data – collecte...
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£42,00
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£102,00
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Sperm Whales Social Evolution in the Ocean
ISBN: PB: 9780226895185, ISBN: HB: 9780226895178, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
456 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 41 tables, 60 halftones, 84 line illus.
Famed in story as "the great leviathans", sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty ton...
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