Canaries, Hybrids, and British Birds in Cage and Aviary
Author : John Robson
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Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353179707
Author : John Robson
Publisher :
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353179707
Author : John Robson
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 2019
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ISBN : 9780243643820
Author : John Robson
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Birds
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Author : John Robson
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Aviaries
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Author : John Robson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2017-09-17
Category : Pets
ISBN : 9781528078795
Excerpt from Canaries, Hybrids, and British Birds in Cage and Aviary Following on much the same lines of treatment as Blakston in his deservedly popular book, and - save for the exclusion of foreign birds - covering the same ground, we shall treat of Canaries, Hybrids, and British birds, their management and exhibition, on lines abreast of the experiences of the most successful breeders and exhibitors of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Tim Birkhead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1620406497
Winner of the Consul Cremer Prize, The Red Canary follows the compelling quest to turn the green canary red. The creation of Dolly the sheep in the 1990s was for many people the start of a new era: the age of genetically modified animals. However, the idea was not new, for in the 1920s an amateur scientist, Hans Duncker, decided to genetically engineer a red canary. Favored originally for their voice, by the middle of the nineteenth century canaries had become so popular that millions were exported from Europe to the United States to satisfy demand. During the 1870s, English canary breeders caused a scandal by feeding their birds red peppers to turn them orange. In the 1930s, Duncker's genetics efforts caught the attention of the Nazi regime who saw him as a champion of their eugenic policies, even though his ingenious experiments were not successful. Nonetheless, Duncker's work paved the way thirty years later for an Englishman, Anthony Gill, and an American, Charles Bennett, to succeed, after recognizing that the red canary would need to be a product of both nature and nurture. In Tim Birkhead's masterful hands, this highly original narrative reveals how the obsession of bird keepers turned the wild canary from green to red, and in the process, heralded exciting but controversial developments in genetic manipulation.
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1924
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Page : 820 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Goncalo C. Cardoso
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2023-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0443153515
The Canary: Natural History, Science and Cultural Significance covers the ecology, evolution and conservation of the canary and related species, along with the history and cultural significance of the domestic canary worldwide and various scientific disciplines in which canaries have played a key role as a model species. The book synthesizes the multiple ways in which the canary and its relatives have been, and continue to be, an important scientific model in diverse areas and have influenced human culture. Each chapter is written by international experts in areas such as biogeography, animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, conservation, neurobiology, genetics, or ethnology. In covering this eclectic array of topics, while always focusing on the canary and its close relatives, this book uses the immense appeal of the canary as a vehicle to present notions of ecology, evolution, biodiversity conservation, and so on, to a wide audience. - Details all aspects of Crithagra and Serinus canaries as well as relatives like crossbills - Structured to begin with more accessible topics like natural history, domestication, and conservation - Closes with discussions of more specialized topics like evolution, neurobiology, behavior and genomics
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Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Birds
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