Blue-Footed Boobies
Title | Blue-Footed Boobies PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Drummond |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 305 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0197629849 |
"Aggressive competition between sibling chicks differs between blue-footed and brown boobies. In a brood of two blue-foot chicks, the senior one (four days older) maintains dominance over the three-month nestling period by daily low-level attacking, ensuring privileged growth and survival for itself by limiting junior's begging and feeding. Both blue-foot siblings often survive and fledge, but when parents provide insufficient food, senior increases its aggression and junior starves to death or gets killed by adult neighbors while seeking adoption in their nests. In contrast, brown booby parents bring less food to their broods and their senior chicks are unconditionally intolerant and violent; they attack their sibling at every opportunity and toss it out of the nest, to certain death. The behavioral roles of booby family members - including conditional sharing, siblicide, and parental passivity - are explained by Hamilton's theory of inclusive fitness and kin selection, which also applies to humans"--
Plants and Animals of Hawaii
Title | Plants and Animals of Hawaii PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Scott |
Publisher | Bess Press |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Animal introduction |
ISBN | 9780935848939 |
A thorough treatment of the many plant and animal species found in Hawai'i.
The Natural History of Selborne
Title | The Natural History of Selborne PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert White |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2013-09-12 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0199591962 |
"The natural history of Selborne, in a series of letters addressed to Thomas Pennant, Esq., and the Hon. Daines Barrington"--Original title page.
Synthesis
Title | Synthesis PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah A. Schmedemann |
Publisher | Aspen Publishing |
Total Pages | 604 |
Release | 2017-02-17 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1454888024 |
Synthesis: Legal Reading, Reasoning, and Communication employs a successful step-by-step approach to effective legal reasoning and writing skills, teaching students how to think like a lawyer: how to read the law, how to reason a client’s situation, and how to write about the case in different legal forms. Maintaining a pedagogy designed to teach students in a variety of ways, the text incorporates numerous charts and diagrams for visual learners. Exercises—based on tort law issues that are particularly accessible to first-year students—provide opportunities for active application of skills. Also included is complete coverage of memo and brief writing. The book is accompanied by a Teacher’s Manual that contains additional exercises based on different areas of the first-year curriculum, suggestions for how to most effectively use the book, and sample syllabi.
National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia
Title | National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Spelman |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1426310226 |
Contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs and text of many animals.
Key to North American Birds
Title | Key to North American Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Elliott Coues |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 634 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Title | Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1336 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Trademarks |
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