| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 537 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Tetrapod feeding in the context of vertebrate morphology / Kurt Schwenk -- An introduction to tetrapod feeding / Kurt Schwenk -- Aquatic feeding in salamanders / Steven M. Deban, David B. Wake -- Terrestrial feeding in salamanders / David B. Wake, Stephen M. Deban -- Feeding in frogs / Kiisa C. Nishikawa -- Feeding in caecilians / James C. O'Reilly -- A bibliography of turtle feeding / Kurt Schwenk -- Feeding in lepidosaurs / Kurt Schwenk -- Feeding in snakes / David Cundall, Harry W. Greene -- Feeding in crocodilians / Johan Cleuren, Frits De Vree -- Feeding in paleognathous birds / Carole A. Bonga Tomlinson -- Feeding in birds: approaches and opportunities / Margaret Rubega -- Feeding in mammals / Karen M. Hiiemae -- The ontogeny of feeding in mammals / R.Z. German, A.W. Crompton -- Feeding in myrmecophagous mammals / Karen Zich Reiss -- Feeding in marine mammals / Alexander Werth |
| Summary |
As the first four-legged vertebrates, called tetrapods, crept up along the shores of ancient primordial seas, feeding was among the most paramount of their concerns. Looking back into the mists of evolutionary time, fish-like ancestors can be seen transformed by natural selection and other evolutionary pressures into animals with feeding habitats as varied as an anteater and a whale. From frog to pheasant and salamander to snake, every lineage of tetrapods has evolved unique feeding anatomy and behavior. Similarities in widely divergent tetrapods vividly illustrate their shared common ancestry. At the same time, numerous differences between and among tetrapods document the power and majesty that comprises organismal evolutionary history. Feeding is a detailed survey of the varied ways that land vertebrates acquire food. The functional anatomy and the control of complex and dynamic structural components are recurrent themes of this volume. Luminaries in the discipline of feeding biology have joined forces to create a book certain to stimulate future studies of animal anatomy and behavior |
| Analysis |
gewervelde dieren |
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vertebrates |
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diervoedering |
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animal feeding |
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voedingsgedrag |
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feeding behaviour |
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foerageren |
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foraging |
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dieranatomie |
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animal anatomy |
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evolutie |
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evolution |
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fylogenie |
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phylogeny |
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diervoeding |
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animal nutrition |
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zoology |
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Vertebrata |
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Zoology (General) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Vertebrates -- Food
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Vertebrates -- Digestive organs
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
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Vertebrates -- Digestive organs
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Evolutionsbiologie
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Nahrungsaufnahme
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Nahrungserwerb
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Fütterung
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Anatomie
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Funktionsmorphologie
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Vierfüßer
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Vertébrés -- Aliments.
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Vertébrés -- Nutrition.
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Digestion.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schwenk, Kurt.
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| ISBN |
9780126325904 |
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0126325901 |
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9780080531632 |
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0080531636 |
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