A desert calling : life in a forbidding landscape /

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For most of us the word "desert" conjures up images of barren wasteland, vast, dry stretches inimical to life. But for a great array of creatures, perhaps even more plentiful than those who inhabit tropical rainforests, the desert is a haven and a home. Travel with Michael Mares into the d...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mares, Michael A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Mammals.
Desert animals.
Biology > Fieldwork.
Mammals
Mammifères.
Faune désertique.
Biologie > Recherche sur le terrain.
Mammalia (class)
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Mammals.
NATURE > Animals > Mammals.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Biology > Fieldwork
Desert animals
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Stephen Jay Gould
  • Prologue
  • Search for undiscovered life
  • Immortal animals
  • Elfin farmers and cactophylic carpenters
  • Darkness and the cave of the jaguar
  • Winding path to field biology
  • Desert at the bottom of the world
  • Different actors, different scripts
  • Desert in the sky
  • Vampire and the phantoms of All Hallows' Eve
  • Land of the shah
  • Impenetrable land of thorns
  • Devil's town
  • In the shadow of the pyramids
  • Naming the anonymous
  • From howling wolf mice to fairy armadillos
  • Aridity's cornucopia
  • Life in the desert of salt
  • Land of diamonds
  • Epilogue.

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