Pangolins

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 23 November 2019

Pangolins: Science, Society and Conservation brings together experts from around the world to document the most up-to-date scientific knowledge on pangolins and their conservation. It chronicles threats facing the species, explores the current initiatives required to protect them, and looks ahead at the future of pangolin science and conservation efforts. Led by a team of editors with more than 20 years collective experience in pangolin conservation, this book includes accounts of the species’ evolution, morphology, and systematics. It discusses the role

• Author : Richard Peirce
• Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
• Release : 18 June 2020

Pangolins have long been sustainably harvested by local communities for their meat and scales, but today the burgeoning trade in these mammals has reached crisis point. Eight pangolin species occur worldwide, four in Asia and four in Africa, and all face extinction if current rates of hunting and trading continue unabated. Now the spotlight is on the world’s most trafficked mammal. Scientists have identified pangolins as the likely source of the coronavirus infection that has brought the world to

• Author : Marika Price,Zach Spitulski
• Publisher : Moon Grove Studios
• Release : 15 March 2019

Explore the world with Pangy as she discovers the importance of being herself.

• Author : George A. Feldhamer,Lee C. Drickamer,Stephen H. Vessey,Joseph F. Merritt,Carey Krajewski
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release : 07 September 2007

The Class Mammalia is amazingly diverse, ranging from whales to marsupials to bats to primates. The more than 5,400 species occupy many habitats, with mammals present on all the continents. They are rare only on Antarctica and a few isolated islands. Mammals present a complex set of conservation and management issues. Some species have become more numerous with the rise of human populations, while others have been extirpated or nearly so—such as the Caribbean monk seal, the thylacine, the Chinese

• Author : Marian Armstrong
• Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
• Release : 18 May 2022

Presents alphabetized profiles of more than five hundred animals, plants, microorganisms, habitats, and issues on scientific management and research, and includes a glossary and lists of further resources.

• Author : J. D. Skinner,Christian T. Chimimba
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 15 November 2005

The definitive reference covering mammals of the southern African subregion. Extensively revised and updated for this new edition.

• Author : Grace Hansen
• Publisher : ABDO
• Release : 15 December 2020

Pangolins are amazing Asian animals that live throughout India, China, and other parts of Asia. Readers will find out where they can be found on a map, what pangolins look like, what they eat, and a little about their young. Complete with awesome photographs and more facts! Aligned to Common Core standards & correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.

• Author : Alicia Hahn
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 10 June 2019

Zoo and Wild Mammal Formulary offers fast access to authoritative dosing information for drugs used in more than 35 zoo and wild mammal groups, including marsupials, bears, and elephants. Taking an easy-to-use tabular format, the book is organized by taxa, with drug doses sorted by type and alphabetically arranged in every chapter. Clear and comprehensive, the book offers dosages for all important drugs, including antibiotics, antifungals, anesthetics, analgesics, and more. Each dose is referenced with a journal or textbook source, including

• Author : Peter Stoett,Delon Alain Omrow
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 01 December 2020

This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses. TEC has become one of the greatest threats to environmental and human security today, as well as a lucrative enterprise and a mode of life in many regions of the world. Transnational Spheres of Ecoviolence argues that we cannot seriously consider stopping TEC without also promoting environmental (and climate) justice. The spheres covered range from wildlife and plant crime

• Author : Eluned Price
• Publisher : Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust
• Release : 18 May 1973

Annual scientific publication from Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust.

• Author : Julie Scardina,Jeff Flocken
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release : 06 March 2012

With one-third of known species being threatened with extinction, wildlife conservationists are some of the most important heroes on the planet, and Wildlife Heroes profiles the work of 40 of the leading conservationists and the animals and causes they are committed to saving, such as Belinda Low (zebras), Iain Douglas-Hamilton (elephants), Karen Eckert (sea turtles), S.T. Wong (sun bear), Steve Galster (wildlife trade), and Wangari Maathai (habitat loss). Since we all should have an interest in conservation, there is a

• Author : Lars Werdelin,William Joseph Sanders
• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• Release : 20 July 2010

"This impressively comprehensive volume is a long-awaited and worthy successor to the now outdated 1978 classic, Evolution of African Mammals. A must-have reference work for everyone interested in mammalian evolution." David Pilbeam, Harvard University and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology --

• Author : Re:wild,Syd Robinson
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 07 December 2021

Celebrate our amazing world with this fascinating and entertaining book featuring wow-worthy animal facts and beautiful photos that will remind you of what we risk losing if we don’t make changes to our environment. Ever hear of the Pink-headed Duck? What about Romeo the Frog, a type of rare water frog who found his mate with the help of an online dating photo? Our world is full of quirky, interesting wild animals that roam the treetops and plains and

• Author : Jane Goodall
• Publisher : Astra Publishing House
• Release : 13 July 2021

From legendary naturalist Jane Goodall, an absorbing fictional tale that will steal hearts and open minds about the plight of the pangolin, the only mammalian species with scales, and endangered by illegal trafficking. After a blissful babyhood being cared for by her loving mother, Pangolina ventures out alone into the forest to become an independent adult, helped along by wise, older animal companions, including a civet and a bat. But one day cruel hunters trap Pangolina, putting her into a

• Author : R. Eric Miller,Murray E. Fowler
• Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
• Release : 31 July 2014

Logically organized by taxonomic groups, this up-to-date text covers the diagnosis and treatment of all zoo animal species and free-ranging wildlife, including amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and fish, unlikely to be seen by private practice veterinarians. Featuring full-color images, the consistent, user-friendly format supplies information on each animal’s biology, unique anatomy, special physiology, reproduction, restraint and handling, housing requirements, nutrition and feeding, surgery and anesthesia, diagnostics, therapeutics, and diseases. Global authorship includes multinational contributors who offer expert information on