Every creature has a story : what science reveals about animal behaviour By Janaki Lenin.

By:

Lenin, Janaki

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers, c 2020.Edition: 1Description: xiii, 282 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmISBN:

9789353578602

Subject(s):

Animal behavior

DDC classification:

591.5 LEN-E

Contents:

Introduction Foreword Good Singers Make the Best Dads 2 Chimpanzees in Mourning The Eye of the Chameleon The Oddest Bird in the World 5 Vaccinated Bees The Scent of a Fur Seal 7 Conservative Chimpanzees Sex Change in Bearded Dragons Wasps Enslave Spiders to Weave for Them How Do Echidnas Survive Wildfires? Plants with Private Armies 27 Did Moby Dick Sink the Pequod? The Giraffes Neck Solution Airborne Sleep Learning from Monkeys? HoneyCollecting with Birds Are Humpback Whales Altruistic? The Playful Keas of New Zealand Making Peace with Wolves The Amorous Octopus Pregnant Fathers Why Dont Elephants Get Cancer? Sticklebacks Hold Their Water 15 Who am I? Rodent Monogamy The Snake that Dodges Predators? Food or Mates? Dodging Old Age 20 Shark Navigation A Parasite that Meddles with Behaviour? High Speed Bird Vision Empathetic Rodents Bizarre Spider Peeing on Eggs No Ants Left Behind Feigning Death to Avoid Sex? Scolding Egyptian Fruit Bats Music in the Wild Land Snails Secret Weapons Sex Drive in Fish 41 Voting in African Wild Dogs Locking Poisons Laziness Has Its Uses Shrinking Shrews Dads vs Cannibals

Summary: This is a collection of short essays that Janaki Lenin had written for the online publication, each essay examining one interesting feature of the behaviour and/or physiognomy of a creature. Almost all of these are animals of some kind, though there’s also a fascinating story of a plan

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	591.5 LEN-E (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB3919

Introduction

Foreword

Good Singers Make the Best Dads 2 Chimpanzees in Mourning

The Eye of the Chameleon

The Oddest Bird in the World 5 Vaccinated Bees

The Scent of a Fur Seal 7 Conservative Chimpanzees

Sex Change in Bearded Dragons

Wasps Enslave Spiders to Weave for Them

How Do Echidnas Survive Wildfires?

Plants with Private Armies 27 Did Moby Dick Sink the Pequod?

The Giraffes Neck Solution

Airborne Sleep

Learning from Monkeys?

HoneyCollecting with Birds

Are Humpback Whales Altruistic?

The Playful Keas of New Zealand

Making Peace with Wolves

The Amorous Octopus

Pregnant Fathers

Why Dont Elephants Get Cancer?

Sticklebacks Hold Their Water 15 Who am I?

Rodent Monogamy

The Snake that Dodges Predators?

Food or Mates?

Dodging Old Age 20 Shark Navigation

A Parasite that Meddles with Behaviour?

High Speed Bird Vision

Empathetic Rodents

Bizarre Spider

Peeing on Eggs

No Ants Left Behind

Feigning Death to Avoid Sex?

Scolding Egyptian Fruit Bats

Music in the Wild

Land Snails Secret Weapons

Sex Drive in Fish 41 Voting in African Wild Dogs

Locking Poisons

Laziness Has Its Uses

Shrinking Shrews

Dads vs Cannibals

This is a collection of short essays that Janaki Lenin had written for the online publication, each essay examining one interesting feature of the behaviour and/or physiognomy of a creature. Almost all of these are animals of some kind, though there’s also a fascinating story of a plan

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