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81) Animal
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
632 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
Swahili
Description
In the Kenyan bush, a small-time ivory dealer fights to stay on top while forces mobilize to destroy his trade. When he turns to his younger cousin, a conflicted wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months, they both see a possible lifeline. The plummeting elephant population in Africa has captured the attention of the world, and as the government cracks down, both poachers and rangers face their own existential crises—what is the value of...
Language
English
Description
For eons, a one-of-a-kind population of killer whales has hunted chinook salmon along the Pacific Coast of the United States. For the last 40 years, renowned whale scientist Ken Balcomb has closely observed them. He's familiar with a deadly pattern, as salmon numbers plummet orcas starve. The solution, says Balcomb, is getting rid of four fish-killing dams 500 miles away on the largest tributary to what once was the largest Chinook producing river...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In this episode, explore the diversity of reproductive biology and sex in the animal kingdom. Along the way, you’ll cover topics including asexual and sexual reproduction, sexual behaviors in different animal groups, and some of the strangest sexual behavior in the animal kingdom: reproduction outside an animal’s body.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Here, Dr. Moore offers an up-close encounter with some of the most interesting animals on our planet: fishes. You’ll examine the specific conservation needs of rays, sharks, and bony fishes; learn how fishes achieve buoyancy and how their gills work; explore how fishes adapt to cold, salty waters; and more.
86) Zoology: Understanding the Animal World: Episode 20,Animal Energetics and the Giant Panda Problem
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Every living thing gets its energy in one of three ways: as a producer, a consumer, or a decomposer. Central to this episode on animal energetics (including metabolism and digestion) is the giant panda, whose carnivorous physiology and plant-based diet make it one of the most inefficient feeders on our planet.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Get a solid foundation for all the terms and concepts you’ll encounter throughout this series. Discover what zoologists do (it’s much more than running zoos); take a close look at the phylogenic tree (the tree of life); and examine the definition of terms like species, natural selection, and conservation.
88) Zoology: Understanding the Animal World: Episode 16,Carnivore Mammals: Feline, Canine, and Ursine
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Turn now from herbivores to carnivores like lions, tigers, bears, wolves, cats, and dogs. Among the many insights you’ll learn are the different ways carnivores evolved to walk and capture prey, as well as their evolutionary history, which stretches back to tree-dwelling animals that lived 50 and 60 million years ago.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Today, there are more than 5,000 species of mammals assembled in 26 orders and dozens of families. In the first of several episodes on mammalian life, investigate the two traits that make mammals unique from other animals: hair and milk. (And yes, even dolphins possess some form of hair!)
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Why is parenting so essential to a species’ survival? Why do some animals have different parenting styles? Here, explore different parenting styles in everything from corals to salmon to humans. Then, encounter one of the most unique examples of parental care in mammals: the golden lion tamarin.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (34 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
There are more than 1 million species of insects on our planet. That's over half of all known extant species. In this episode, explore adaptations of some of the most important insects on our planet, including ants, bees, and butterflies. Also, focus on key conservation issues like colony collapse and pollinator conservation.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
What are the real effects of mosquitos, biting flies, and internal parasites on humans? Why are they so important to our planet? What makes mosquitos the deadliest animals on Earth? How do zoologists classify the parasites that infect humans? What happens in a zoo’s veterinary pathology department?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From kingfishers to penguins to vultures, dive into the science of ornithology, the study of our planet’s birds. Along the way, you’ll encounter topics like the amazing adaptations of bills; the evolution of birds of prey; and the relationship between shorebird migration and the egg-laying season for horseshoe crabs.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Around 75% of new or emerging infectious human diseases are spread from animals. Examine zoonotic diseases, which are spread between humans and animals and caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. Also, consider how diseases (like canine distemper virus) threaten animals in zoos and in nature.
95) Snow Monkeys
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the frigid valleys of Japan’s Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise their families in a complex society of rank and privilege where each knows their place. Their leader is still new to the job and something of a solitary grouch. But one little monkey, innocently unaware of his own lowly social rank, reaches out to this lonely leader, forming a bond with him that manages over time to warm his less than sunny disposition....
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Zoologists study animal intelligence using a combination of ethology, psychology, and neuroscience. In this episode, look at the behavior of different animals (the use of tools by animals as diverse as otters and elephants, social learning in primates and dolphins, the famous story of a “counting” horse) to determine whether or not animals think.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (744 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In Zoology: Understanding the Animal World, The Great Courses teams up with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute for 24 episodes that take you behind the scenes of the animal world. Dr. Donald E. Moore III brings you up close and personal with a breathtaking variety of animal species, from butterflies to crocodiles to pandas.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How do zoologists study animal behavior? How does it help them become better caretakers and conservationists? First, examine how the modern approach to studying animal behavior emerged. Then, learn how objective behavioral studies in natural conditions work. Finally, explore Dr. Moore’s own observations of the Pampas deer of South America.
99) Nature
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (529 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
As one of the most watched documentary film series on public television, Nature delivers the best in original natural history films to audiences nationwide. Nature is celebrating its 35th Season in Fall 2016...Over the years, Nature has brought the beauty and wonder of the natural world into American homes, becoming in the process the benchmark of natural history programs on American television. The series has won more than 700 honors from the television...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
It is the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs. Population by population, species by species, amphibians are vanishing off the face of the Earth. Despite international alarm and a decade and a half of scientists scrambling for answers, the steady hemorrhaging of amphibians continues like a leaky faucet that cannot be fixed or a wound that will not heal. Large scale die-offs of frogs around the world have prompted scientists to take desperate...
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