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Wolverine Gulo gulo (Linnaeus, 1758)
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Wolf Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Harbor Seal Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Pine Marten Martes martes (Linnaeus, 1758)
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Eurasian Pygmy Shrew Sorex minutus Linnaeus, 1766
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including palaeontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Short-Finned Pilot Whale Globicephala macrorhynchus Gray, 1846
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of mammalian biology, including taxonomy, global and European distribution, genetics,...
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Avian Reproduction: Clutch Sizes, Incubation, and Hatching
The number of eggs laid per clutch by female birds varies from 1 to 18 or more. In this chapter, the evolution of clutch sizes and the effect of...
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Avian Locomotion: Flying, Running, Walking, Climbing, Swimming, and Diving
Most birds can fly, but can also, to varying degrees depending on the species and their habitats, walk, run, climb, swim, and dive. With a focus on...
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Nervous System
The nervous system of birds is comparable in most respects to that of mammals, including relatively large brains. The central and peripheral nervous...
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Cardiovascular and Immune Systems
Birds have high metabolic rates and so require an efficient cardiovascular system that provides their cells and tissues with sufficient oxygen. Birds...
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Mating Systems
The ways by which male and female birds locate and choose each other for mating, the number of mates during a breeding season and during a bird’s...
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Showing and Saving: The Challenges and Opportunities of Mammal-Based Tourism in Brazilian Amazonia
As one of the countries with the greatest biological wealth on the planet, Brazil has huge wildlife tourism potential. This chapter discusses the...
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Why This Book on Amazonian Mammals Is Needed
Mammals are highly diverse in their lifestyles (including semi- and fully aquatic, aerial, terrestrial, fossorial, and arboreal forms). They play...
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Infectious Diseases: A Threat to the Conservation of Amazonian Mammal Species
Transmissible infectious diseases are widely recognized as a health threat to wildlife. While infectious diseases and outbreaks have been relatively...
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What We Know and Do Not Know About Living Mammalian Megafauna: A Cross-Continental Comparison in Research Output
Megafauna are among the species most affected by anthropogenic drivers of population decline and extinction. Yet in the tropics, where current...
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Effects of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Ecosystems and Biodiversity, with an Emphasis on Amazonian Mammals
Natural climate changes have been responsible for new rearrangements of global biodiversity over geological time. The Anthropogenic Climate Change...
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Harp Seal Pagophilus groenlandicus (Erxleben, 1777)
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Evolution of Hermaphroditism in Fishes: Phylogeny and Theory
This chapter introduces the main features of functional hermaphroditism in fishes. It has been reported in 481 fish species belonging to 41 families...
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Barbary Macaque Macaca sylvanus (Linnaeus, 1758)
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...
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Schreibers’ Bent-Winged Bat Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817)
This comprehensive species-specific chapter covers all aspects of the mammalian biology, including paleontology, physiology, genetics, reproduction...