Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals

Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals
Author: Timothy M. Caro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2005-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0226094367

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Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their predators, from the camoflaged coat of the giraffe to the extraordinary way in which South American sealions ward off the attacks of killer whales.


Antipredator Defenses in Birds and Mammals
Language: en
Pages: 609
Authors: Timothy M. Caro
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their preda
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Authors: William E. Cooper, Jr
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-28 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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When a predator attacks, prey are faced with a series of 'if', 'when' and 'how' escape decisions – these critical questions are the foci of this book. Cooper
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Pages: 302
Authors: Uldis Roze
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Pages: 368
Authors: Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-17 - Publisher: Scribner

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