Mimicry in Plants and Animals. Translated From the German by R.D. Martin
Author : Wolfgang Wickler
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Mimicry (Biology)
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Author : Wolfgang Wickler
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Mimicry (Biology)
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Author : Gilbert Waldbauer
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520383001
“At times this informative book turns wonderfully gross and lovely, reminding us that there’s an entire universe of largely unnoticed creatures all around us.”—Audubon All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central—perhaps the central—aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.
Author : Robert Creed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 20,70 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1475704321
One of the privileges of appointment to a Chair at another University is that it gives one the right to talk to many distinguished people about their work and ideas. E. B. Ford was known to me before I came to Oxford as the author of a book on butterflies and as somewhat of an eccentric, but I was quite unprepared for the welcome he gave me into the Department of Zoology and for the enormous interest of the subject which he gradually revealed to me. My contact with the Genetics Laboratory was made easier by one of the first things I had to do. Within a few weeks of my arrival, it came to light that a new building for another department was to be erected on a piece of land, known to us as 'Henry's weed garden' but generally regarded as being derelict. Even my, at that time, elementary, knowledge of ecological genetics made it easy to realize that the population of caterpillars that had been under continuous observation there for eleven years put it in a rather special category of wilderness; although I did not succeed in saving it, I was able to persuade the university to substitute another experimental plot and this may have helped the geneticists to appreciate that the new professor was not only interested in electrical apparatus.
Author : Alex C. Parrish
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2021-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030767124
The Sensory Modes of Animal Rhetorics: A Hoot in the Light presents the latest research in animal perception and cognition in the context of rhetorical theory. Alex C. Parrish explores the science of animal signaling that shows human and nonhuman animals share similar rhetorical strategies—such as communicating to manipulate or persuade—which suggests the vast impact sensory modalities have on communication in nature. The book demonstrates new ways of seeing humans and how we have separated ourselves from, and subjectified, the animal rhetor. This type of cross-species study allows us to trace the origins of our own persuasive behaviors, providing a deeper and more inclusive history of rhetoric than ever before.
Author : T. W. Fisher
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080533019
For many years the use of chemical agents such as pesticides and herbicides has been effective in controlling the many varieties of pests that infest both agricultural crops and backyard gardens. However, these pests are gradually becoming resistant to these agents, because the agents themselves are acting as selective factors making the pests better and better able to resist and persist. As a result, the use of biological controlling agents is increasing. This book is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook of biological control.
Author : Gilbert Waldbauer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780674454897
Tells the success story of insects, discussing how the nearly one million known species have managed to survive and thrive in the varying climates and conditions of the earth, focusing on the cecropia moth as a basis for comparison.
Author : National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Medicine
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Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
Author : Eduardo Neiva
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311089775X
Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional heritage of the social sciences and humanities. Culture and communication are conceived not merely as means of integrating social actors, but as semiotic ways of providing fitness indicators that allow for the resolution of competition between individuals. From the perspective of Peircean semiotics and the Darwinian understanding of life processes, Communication Games redefines culture in terms of Darwin's notion of sexual selection. Moving on from the realization that sexual selection creates individual organisms with conflicting interests, Communication Games emphasizes the contribution of game theory to semiotics and communication studies. The book demonstrates how cooperation and shared conventions eventually emerge, and how conflicts are resolved through the display of costly and inflated signs. It is from these inflated signs and the escalation of excessive messages that cultures gain a certain degree of stability. Communication Games proposes a new way of understanding culture, communication, and semiotic exchange in terms of game theory.
Author : James William Tutt
Publisher :
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Entomology
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Publisher :
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 1968-08
Category : Agricultural pests
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