Author : Amelia Madison
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502601753
Asia and Australia are places with rich animal and plant life. Animals here adapt to extreme climates and have developed some unique qualities to make them capable of surviving. This book features many fierce predatorsincluding tigers, snakes, and crocodilesthat call the northern and southern hemispheres home.
Author : Penny Olsen
Publisher : National Library of Australia
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0642278563
Australian predators of the sky are some of the most admired and the most despised of the bird world. Raptors are admired for their strength and independence, but despised for their depredations on livestock and favourite garden birds, while the owls are at once respected for their wisdom and watchfulness and feared for their mournful cries and association with darkness and ill-omen. The book begins with fascinating descriptions by award-winning natural history author Penny Olsen on the discovery and illustration of birds of prey in Australia, and their characteristics and ecology, followed by full-colour illustrations of each species by a variety of artists, accompanied by intriguing notes about the birds. Australian Predators of the Sky comprises over 200 striking paintings, lithographs and engravings of all 34 Australian species—25 diurnal birds of prey such as eagles, hawks and falcons, and nine owls such as hawk-owls and barn-owls.
Author : Iain Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 140084682X
The go-to introductory guide to Australia's diverse wildlife and habitats Ideal for the nature-loving traveler, Wildlife of Australia is a handy photographic pocket guide to the most widely seen birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and habitats of Australia. The guide features more than 400 stunning color photographs, and coverage includes 350 birds, 70 mammals, 30 reptiles, and 16 frogs likely to be encountered in Australia's major tourist destinations. Accessible species accounts are useful for both general travelers and serious naturalists, and the invaluable habitat section describes the Australian bush and its specific wildlife. Animal species with similar features are placed on the same plates in order to aid identification. Wildlife of Australia is an indispensable and thorough resource for any nature enthusiast interested in this remarkable continent. Easy-to-use pocket guide More than 400 high-quality photographs Accessible text aids identification Habitat guide describes the Australian bush and its specific wildlife Coverage includes the 350 birds, 70 mammals, 30 reptiles, and 16 frogs most likely to be seen on a trip around Australia
Author : John Seidensticker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 141693863X
Looks at predators from around the world including their weapons, instincts and habitats.
Author : Blake Hoena
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Illustrated children's books
ISBN : 1426325347
Presents general information about different types of predators, looking at what they are, some of their methods of hunting, the characteristics of different species, their origins, and fun facts about them.--
Author : Amelia Madison
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 15,90 MB
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1502601745
Asia and Australia are places with rich animal and plant life. Animals here adapt to extreme climates and have developed some unique qualities to make them capable of surviving. This book features many fierce predatorsincluding tigers, snakes, and crocodilesthat call the northern and southern hemispheres home.
Author : Peter West
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2018-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1486305695
Australia’s introduced vertebrate pest species cost at least $1 billion annually in economic, environmental and social impacts. The Guide to Introduced Pest Animals of Australia is a comprehensive, practical guide to 60 introduced pest animal species present in Australia, including 27 mammals, 18 birds, nine freshwater fish, two amphibians and four reptiles. It contains descriptive information to identify each species in the field, including distinctive physical characteristics, size, weight, colouration, diet, breeding behaviour, habitat preferences, and information about footprints, dung, scats and audible animal calls. Each species profile is accompanied by practical management information, maps and high-quality photographs – allowing readers to learn about pest species in their local area, what problems they might cause, and what control options exist for management. This guide also contains a number of emerging high-risk pest species that may pose a significant threat to our natural environment, economy, agriculture and human health. Whether you are a farmer, natural resource manager, public land manager, pest controller, teacher, student, field naturalist or wildlife ecologist, this easy-to-use guide will help you identify Australia’s most significant introduced pest animals in your local area.
Author : Alistair Glen
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 064310318X
The Australian continent provides a unique perspective on the evolution and ecology of carnivorous animals. In earlier ages, Australia provided the arena for a spectacular radiation of marsupial and reptilian predators. The causes of their extinctions are still the subject of debate. Since European settlement, Australia has seen the extinction of one large marsupial predator (the thylacine), another (the Tasmanian devil) is in danger of imminent extinction, and still others have suffered dramatic declines. By contrast, two recently-introduced predators, the fox and cat, have been spectacularly successful, with devastating impacts on the Australian fauna. Carnivores of Australia: Past, Present and Future explores Australia's unique predator communities from pre-historic, historic and current perspectives. It covers mammalian, reptilian and avian carnivores, both native and introduced to Australia. It also examines the debate surrounding how best to manage predators to protect livestock and native biodiversity. Readers will benefit from the most up-to-date synthesis by leading researchers and managers in the field of carnivore biology. By emphasising Australian carnivores as exemplars of flesh-eaters in other parts of the world, this book will be an important reference for researchers, wildlife managers and students worldwide.
Author : Gbolagade Akeem Lameed
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9535107186
This book - Biodiversity Enrichment in a Diverse World - considered biodiversity (plants, animals, fungi, and microbes) from three different angles: genetics, species, and ecosystems. The relationships between them are complex and it looks at these aspects from different angles and also various interventions at different levels. The scientific approach of the book demonstrates that the three levels are closely inter-connected and action is therefore needed to conserve and protect the systems if the benefits provided to human life will continue to be available. However, conservation of the biological diversity is essentially an umbrella term for traditional species, relationship to human health, ecosystem conservation and the need to manage the human use of the species and ecosystems in a sustainable way.
Author : Ian Burnet
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780994562784
This book follows the epic voyages of the natural history Continent Australia, Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. The voyage of Continent Australia after it breaks away from Antarctica 50 million years ago with its raft of Gondwanaland flora and fauna and begins its journey north towards the equator. The voyage of Joseph Banks on the Endeavour who with Daniel Solander became the first trained naturalists to describe the unique flora and fauna of Continent Australia that had evolved during its 30 million years of isolation. The voyage of Charles Darwin on the Beagle, who after his observations in South America and the Galapagos Islands, sat on the banks of the Coxs River in New South Wales and tried to rationalize his belief in the idea of biblical creation and understand the origin of species. The voyage of Alfred Russel Wallace, the man who realized that the Lombok Strait in Indonesia represents the biogeographical boundary between the fauna of Asia and those of Australasia. On the Asian side are elephants, tigers, primates and specific birds. On the Australasian side are marsupials such as the possum-like cuscus and the Aru wallaby, as well as birds specific to Australia such as white cockatoos, brush turkeys and the spectacular Birds of Paradise. It was tectonic plate movement that brought these disparate worlds together and it was Alfred Russel Wallaces Letter from Ternate that forced Charles Darwin to finally publish his landmark work On the Origin of Species.
