Desert Arthropods: Life History Variations - Couverture rigide

Punzo, Fred

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3540660410 ISBN 13 : 9783540660415

Editeur : Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1999

Synopsis

It is difficult for me to recollect a time when I was not fascinated with the very notion of a desert. Walt Disney's film, The Living Desert, which I initially saw when I was 8 years of age, provided me with my first glimpse of this wondrous yet seemingly ho stile environment. The images were hypnotic and captivating. I looked on in amazement at the promenade Cl deux of the male and female scorpions during courtship. Their rhythmic and coordinated movements as they grasped one another made them appear to glide in unis on over the surface of the sand, each individual totally absorbed with its partner. In the next minute the fern ale had suddenly and utterly transformed herself like some Jekyll and Hyde act, into an aggressive predator whose prior gregarious embrace was now a hold of death for the male. The indomitable desert grasshopper mouse, the ever sentient kit fox, the graceful shovel-nosed snake swimming in an endless sea of sand.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3540660410
• ISBN 13: 9783540660415
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 244
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