Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“josef hemetsberger”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “josef hemetsberger”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Social Life of Greylag Geese

    Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System

    Edited by Isabella B. R. Scheiber, Josef Hemetsberger, Kurt Kotrschal, Brigitte M. Weiß ...
    The flock of greylag geese established by Konrad Lorenz in Austria in 1973 has become an influential model animal system and one of the few worldwide with complete life-history data spanning several decades. Based on the unique records of nearly 1000 free-living greylag geese, this is a synthesis of more than twenty years of behavioural research. It provides a comprehensive overview of a complex ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Animal Madness

    How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves

    by Laurel Braitman ...
    ****“Science Friday” Summer Reading Pick****Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads****People magazine Best Summer Reads**“A lovely, big-hearted book…brimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well” (The New York Times).**Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed? How about heartbroken or homesick? Animal Madness takes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia

    by Richard Thomas, Sarah Thomas, David Andrew, Alan McBride ...
    First published in 1994, The Complete Guide to Finding the Birds of Australia was the first ever book of its type in Australia – a complete guide to locating every resident bird species in Australia, plus supplementary information on where to find rarities, migratory species and logistical information. This fully revised second edition expands on the best-selling appeal of the first, describing ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Darwin's Origin of Species

    A Biography

    by Janet Browne ...
    Series Book 2 - BOOKS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD
    No book has changed our understanding of ourselves more than Darwin's Origin of Species. It caused a sensation on its first day of publication in 1859 and went on to become an international bestseller. The idea that living things gradually evolve through natural selection profoundly shocked its Victorian readers, calling into question what had been for many the unshakeable belief that there was a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Domestic Cat

    The Biology of its Behaviour

    Edited by Dennis C. Turner, Patrick Bateson ...
    The most commonly kept domestic animal in the developed world, the cat has been a part of human life for thousands of years. Cats have been both worshipped and persecuted over this long period - either loved or hated for their enigmatic self-reliance and the subject of numerous myths and fables. Highlighting startling discoveries made over the last ten years, this new edition features ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Randomness in Evolution

    by John Tyler Bonner ...
    The important role that randomness plays in evolutionary changeJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and insightful biologists, here challenges a central tenet of evolutionary biology. In this concise, elegantly written book, he makes the bold and provocative claim that some biological diversity may be explained by something other than natural selection.With his customary wit and ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Evolutionary Biomechanics

    Selection, Phylogeny, and Constraint

    by Dr Graham Taylor, Dr Adrian Thomas ...
    Series series Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution
    Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which physical constraints and performance can be predicted from first principles. Instead of reviewing the entire breadth of the biomechanical literature, a few key examples are explored in depth as vehicles for discussing fundamental concepts, analytical ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines

    Passerines

    by R Schodde, IJ Mason ...
    Recent classifications of Australian birds have been limited to lists of "species" which are inadequate as biodiversity indicators. The Directory of Australian Birds: Passerines fills a huge gap in ornithological knowledge by separating out and listing not only 340 species of song-birds but also the 720 distinct regional forms. Covering about half the national bird fauna, the Directory provides ... Read more

    $191.99 CAD

  • Australian Wildlife After Dark

    by Bruce Thomson, Martyn Robinson ...
    Australia is a land of many unique animals, some of which are active only during the cooler evening and night-time and so are rarely seen. These are the after dark animals so widespread yet so little noticed by humans, whether in our backyards, the arid desert, woodlands or rainforest. Australian Wildlife After Dark brings this hidden fauna into the light. The after dark fauna includes a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Host Manipulation by Parasites

    Edited by David P. Hughes, Jacques Brodeur, Frédéric Thomas ...
    Parasites that manipulate the behaviour of their hosts represent striking examples of adaptation by natural selection. This field of study is now moving beyond its descriptive phase and into more exciting areas where the processes and patterns of such dramatic adaptations can be better understood. This innovative text provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and challenging review of host ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Too Smart for our Own Good

    The Ecological Predicament of Humankind

    by Craig Dilworth ...
    We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behaviour is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds

    Edited by Les Christidis, Walter E Boles ...
    Systematics and Taxonomy of Australian Birds presents an up-to-date classification of Australian birds. Building on the authors’ 1994 book, The Taxonomy and Species of Birds of Australia and its Territories, it incorporates the extensive volume of relevant systematic work since then. The findings of these studies are summarised and evaluated in the explanations for the taxonomic treatments adopted ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD