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How Not to Be Eaten : the Insects Fight Back.
All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and ch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520952461 0520952464 1283373548 9781283373548 0520269128 9780520269125 9786613373540 6613373540 |