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Автор: Eisner (Айснер)
Название: Secret Weapons
Перевод названия: Секретное оружие
ISBN: 9780674018822
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Классификация:

Биология и науки о жизни

Зоология и науки о животных

ISBN-10: 0674018826
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 360
Вес: 0.82 кг.
Дата издания: 01.11.2005
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 350 colour illustrations, 150chemical formulas
Размер: 23.42 x 16.00 x 2.74 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: Defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives - arthropods - nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely pre-eminence is a story deftly and colourfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creares not just to survive, but to thrive. In sixty-nine chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisners legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast of arthropods - as well as a few of their kin from Australia, Europe, and Asia - and observe at firsthand the nature and extent of the defences that lie at the root of their evolutionary success. Here are the cockroaches and termites, the carpenter ants and honeybees, and all the miniature creatures in between, deploying their sprays and venom, froth and faeces, camouflage and sticky coatings. And along with a marvellous bugs-eye view of how these secret weapons actually work, here is a close-up look at the science behind them, from taxonomy to chemical formulas, as well as an appendix with instructions for studying chemical defences at home. Whether dipped into here and there or read cover to cover, Secret Weapons will prove invaluable to hands-on researchers and amateur naturalists alike, and will captivate any reader for whom nature is a source of wonder.
Дополнительное описание: Кол-во стр.: 360
Формат: 229 x 152
Дата издания: 2005

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