Every Creature Has a Story: What Science Reveals About Animal Behaviour - Couverture souple

Lenin, Janaki

 
9789356296770: Every Creature Has a Story: What Science Reveals About Animal Behaviour
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9356296774 ISBN 13 : 9789356296770
Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2023

Synopsis

We are surrounded by an astounding variety of lifeforms. Over millennia, they have evolved to exploit unique niches, in the process developing features and skills that set them apart. Have you ever wondered what price the giraffe pays for its long neck? The neck increases its blood pressure to pump blood up to its brain, which endangers its life every time it bends down to drink. Or have you thought about how female nightingales decide which male will share the burdens of parenthood with them? They listen to prospective candidates' songs to gauge if they'd make good fathers. And did you know that glass-frogs pee on their eggs and the gender of bearded dragons is fixed by sex chromosomes or temperature? In Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin draws us towards the wonders of the natural world in evocative and witty words. She uncovers the surprising, sometimes bizarre but always amazing ways in which creatures breed and survive, from spiders salivating during sex and snails entombing their parasites into their shells to elephants developing immunity to cancer. After reading this book, you'll never look at nature in the same way again.

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À propos de l?auteur

Janaki Lenin - a freelance journalist and producer of wildlife documentaries for National Geographic Television with Rom Whitaker - was the coordinator of the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station from 2005 until 2009. She was the Regional Chair of IUCN's Crocodile Specialist Group for South Asia and Iran between 2008 and 2012.

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Éditeur
HarperCollins Publishers India
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9356296774
ISBN 13 
9789356296770
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
WordUnited GmbH
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9789353578602: Every Creature Has a Story:: What Science Reveals about Animal Behaviour

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  9353578604 ISBN 13 :  9789353578602
Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2020
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