Zoölogie

The growing success of molecular methods has challenged traditional views of animal evolution and a large number of alternative hypotheses are hotly debated today. For the deep metazoan phylogeny pro …

With an account of over 6.000 recent and 15.000 fossil species, phylum Bryozoa represents a quite large and important phylum of colonial filter feeders. This volume of the series Handbook of Zoology …

Pat writes about wildlife, all kinds of wildlife we face in our modern lives: environmental, political, economic, family relationships, medical. Wild Life covers a wide range of modern Americana in t …

These compelling stories and photographs take us to places like Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Ivindo National Park in Gabon, and the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire for an intim …

Nannochoristidae (=Nannomecoptera) and Boreidae (=Neomecoptera) are traditionally assigned to the holometabolan Order Mecoptera. Both are presently in the focus of insect systematists. They differ st …

It’s not about the bats, it’s about you and me. The Covid-19 pandemic put the spotlight on how human expansion has led to an increase in zoonotic viruses jumping species, and calls on us to re-set ou …

My Extraordinary Life as a Zoo Director. From merciful acts of compassion to vindictive acts of litigation, Sunset at the Zoo examines the clash between the popularity of seeing exotic animals and th …

Endangered animals need everyone’s help – regardless of age, gender, race and social status. The first step to protecting endangered animals is to educate the young. The purpose is to make children b …

This book is the third volume in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With approximately 350, 000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most s …

Understanding Behaviorism is a classic textbook that explains the basis of behavior analysis and its application to human problems in a scholarly but accessible manner. * Now in its third edition, th …