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

By:

Stock, Michael (Terrance Michael) [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First electronic edition, 2019Description: 1 online resource (274 pages) : digital, PDF fileContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781772124408
1772124400
1772123749
9781772123746

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Flying zoo.DDC classification:

598.17 23

LOC classification:

QL698.95 .S76 2019eb

Other classification:

cci1icc

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "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 interdependency with host birds. Written with a scientist's exuberance of the beauty of pattern in nature, a co-evolutionary dance unfolds among an astounding cast of creatures living in a complex and paradoxical co-habitation. It is the contemporary follow-up to the classic Fleas, Flukes & Cuckoos. Students of biology, their instructors, and birders alike will want this volume on their shelves, as will natural history readers looking for a new tale of tails."-- Provided by publisher.

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"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 interdependency with host birds. Written with a scientist's exuberance of the beauty of pattern in nature, a co-evolutionary dance unfolds among an astounding cast of creatures living in a complex and paradoxical co-habitation. It is the contemporary follow-up to the classic Fleas, Flukes & Cuckoos. Students of biology, their instructors, and birders alike will want this volume on their shelves, as will natural history readers looking for a new tale of tails."-- Provided by publisher.

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