Book Description
Introduces in verse some of the behavior of familiar animals: a beaver bites and chews; a bird glides and flies; and a spider creeps and crawls.
Author : Lawrence F. Lowery
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1936959585
Introduces in verse some of the behavior of familiar animals: a beaver bites and chews; a bird glides and flies; and a spider creeps and crawls.
Author : Carl Safina
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0805098887
Hailed conservationist Carl Safina examines animal personhood as told through the inspired narrative portraits of elephants, wolves, and dolphins
Author : Committee on the Use of Animals in Research (U.S.)
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Medical
ISBN :
The necessity for animal use in biomedical research is a hotly debated topic in classrooms throughout the country. Frequently teachers and students do not have access to balanced,  factual material to foster an informed discussion on the topic. This colorful, 50-page booklet is designed to educate teenagers about the role of animal research in combating disease, past and present; the perspective of animal use within the whole spectrum of biomedical research; the regulations and oversight that govern animal research; and the continuing efforts to use animals more efficiently and humanely.
Author : Lawrence F. Lowery
Publisher : I Wonder Why
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781936959457
Originally published: New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969.
Author : Jean Swingle Greek
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1412020581
Drs. Greek have written 2 books on why using animals as models for humans is not the best way to conduct medical research and drug testing. During their lectures and debates, the most commonly asked question was, "Well. What will we use if we don't use animals?" What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century is the answer to that question. Drs. Greek explain briefly why one species cannot predict drug response for another and describe what research and testing methods should be used today instead of animals. They also describe where our biomedical research dollars should be spent if we are to have cures for cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimer's. This book will appeal to science-trained and general audiences, animal lovers and science readers, public policy analysts, students, patients and patient support groups, and government watchdog groups. What Will We Do If We Don't Experiment On Animals? Medical Research for the Twenty-first Century takes medical research out of the nineteenth and into the 21st century.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309038391
Scientific experiments using animals have contributed significantly to the improvement of human health. Animal experiments were crucial to the conquest of polio, for example, and they will undoubtedly be one of the keystones in AIDS research. However, some persons believe that the cost to the animals is often high. Authored by a committee of experts from various fields, this book discusses the benefits that have resulted from animal research, the scope of animal research today, the concerns of advocates of animal welfare, and the prospects for finding alternatives to animal use. The authors conclude with specific recommendations for more consistent government action.
Author : Sue Barraclough
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432914035
How do fish breathe? Why do giraffes have long necks? Why do tortoises have hard shells? 'Investigate' encourages science enquiry with an interactive, investigative, and visual approach to a wide range of core curriculum topics. The format allows students to use scientific processes such as prediction, hypothesis, and inference in answering a series of questions on important topics throughout the book.
Author : Robert W. Shumaker
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1421401282
When published in 1980, Benjamin B. Beck’s Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Beck showed that animals—from insects to primates—employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. His work inspired and energized legions of researchers to study the use of tools by a wide variety of species. In this revised and updated edition of the landmark publication, Robert W. Shumaker and Kristina R. Walkup join Beck to reveal the current state of knowledge regarding animal tool behavior. Through a comprehensive synthesis of the studies produced through 2010, the authors provide an updated and exact definition of tool use, identify new modes of use that have emerged in the literature, examine all forms of tool manufacture, and address common myths about non-human tool use. Specific examples involving invertebrates, birds, fish, and mammals describe the differing levels of sophistication of tool use exhibited by animals.
Author : Marian Stamp Dawkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199587825
In a world increasingly concerned with the human species and its future, Marian Stamp Dawkins argues that we need to rethink some of the fundamental questions regarding animal welfare. How are we justified in projecting human emotions on to animals? What kind of mental lives do they have? What can science tell us about their quality of life?
Author : Laurel Braitman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1451627009
"For the first time, a historian of science draws evidence from across the world to show how humans and other animals are astonishingly similar when it comes to their feelings and the ways in which they lose their minds"--