The flying zoo : birds, parasites, and the world they share /

"An enthusiastic zoological tribute to birds and the parasites that live in and on them is revealed in Michael Stock's exposé, The Flying Zoo. From the Crozet Archipelago and the Galapagos Islands to our backyards, parasites--fleas, lice, ticks, flukes--live in both sinister and symbiotic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stock, Michael (Terrance Michael) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, 2019.
Edición:First electronic edition, 2019.
Temas:
Birds > Ecology.
Birds > Parasites.
Parasitic birds.
Oiseaux parasites.
Oiseaux > Écologie.
Parasitic birds
Birds > Ecology
Birds > Parasites
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. A world on a bird
  • 2. Lice : it's a beautiful life
  • 3. Fleas : the circus in the zoo
  • 4. Tough ticks
  • 5. Mites : little things mean a lot
  • 6. Flying zoo flies
  • 7. The worms that ate the bird
  • 8. Oddities in the flying zoo
  • 9. Flying zoo behaviour
  • 10. Environmental impacts : the future of the flying zoo.

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