Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures [Audiobook] download free by Thomas Eisner
- Listen audiobook: Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and Other Many-Legged Creatures
- Author: Thomas Eisner
- Release date: 2007/3/11
- Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780674024038
- Rating: 7.93 of 10
- Votes: 375
- Review by: Esmeralda Carney
- Review rating: 8.3 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/30
- Duration: 4H40M20S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA, WAV, MPEG4, MP3 (compression TAR.Z, TGZ, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 42 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 30M18S (8.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives-arthropods-nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive. In sixty-nine chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisner's legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast of arthropods-as well as a few of their kin from Australia, Europe, and Asia-and observe at firsthand the nature and extent of the defenses that lie at the root of their evolutionary success. Here are the cockroaches and termites, the carpenter ants and honeybees, and all the miniature creatures in between, deploying their sprays and venom, froth and feces, camouflage and sticky coatings. And along with a marvelous bug's-eye view of how these secret weapons actually work, here is a close-up look at the science behind them, from taxonomy to chemical formulas, as well as an appendix with instructions for studying chemical defenses at home. Whether dipped into here and there or read cover to cover, Secret Weapons will prove invaluable to hands-on researchers and amateur naturalists alike, and will captivate any reader for whom nature is a source of wonder.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders, Natural History Books, Insects (entomology)
- Download servers: Torrents.me, MEGA, FileServe, Google Drive, 4Shared, Torrent, BitShare, IDrive. Compressed in TAR.Z, TGZ, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 34.61 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x19mm
- Weight: 716.68g
- Printed by: The Belknap Press
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States
Vote:
‹
›
