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Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead [Audiobook] download free by Martin Stevens

Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead Audiobook download free by Martin Stevens
  • Listen audiobook: Cheats and Deceits: How Animals and Plants Exploit and Mislead
  • Author: Martin Stevens
  • Release date: 2016/12/30
  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Natural History
  • ISBN: 9780198707899
  • Rating: 9.93 of 10
  • Votes: 782
  • Review by: Otto Cano
  • Review rating: 7.64 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/23
  • Duration: 4H1M53S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA Lossless, MPEG4, WAV, MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, Apple Lossless (compression LZO, ALZ, RAR, Z, ZIP)
  • Total pages original book: 320
  • Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 22M25S (6.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive potential mates for reproduction. Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their host's own clutch. Harmless butterflies mimic the wing patterning of a poisonous butterfly to avoid being eaten. The deep-sea angler fish hangs a glowing, fleshy lure in front of its mouth to draw the attention of potential prey, while some male fish alter their appearance to look like females in order to sneak past rivals in mating. Some orchids develop the smell of female insects in order to attract pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death with colourful displays. In this book, Martin Stevens describes the remarkable range of such adaptations in nature, and considers how they have evolved, and become increasingly perfected as part of an arms race between predator and prey or host and parasite.He explores the work of naturalists and biologists from Alfred Russel Wallace to current research, showing how scientists find ways of testing the impact of particular behaviours and colourings on the animals it is meant to fool, as opposed to our human perceptions. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Stevens considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Botany & Plant Sciences, Evolution, Trees, Wildflowers & Plants, Wildlife: General Interest, Ecological Science, The Biosphere, Zoology & Animal Sciences
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  • Format: Hardback
  • Approximate value: 27.02 USD
  • Dimensions: 167x240x21mm
  • Weight: 680g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: Oxford, United Kingdom

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