Zoology : the secret world of animals

DK Publishing, Inc. (Added Author). Smithsonian Institution. (Added Author).

Summary: "Explore the everyday miracle of the animal kingdom. With spectacular photography and clear explanations, Zoology reveals the incredible anatomy, behavior, and beauty of every type of creature, from hair to scale, whisker to tail." -- back cover.

Record details

ISBN: 9781465482518
ISBN: 1465482512
Physical Description: print
416 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, NY: DK Publishing, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The animal kingdom -- What is an animal? -- Evolution -- Types of animals -- Beetle diversity -- Fish and amphibians -- Reptiles and birds -- Mammals -- Prehistoric paintings -- Shape and size -- Symmetry and asymmetry -- Forming colonies -- Radial symmetry -- Symmetry in motion -- The Darwinists -- Comb jellies -- Bodies with simple heads -- Sexual differences -- The renaissance eye -- Segmented bodies -- Vertebrate bodies -- Frog body form -- Shape shifters -- Large and small -- Fantasy beasts -- Tall animals -- Skeletons -- Communal skeletons -- Water skeletons -- External skeletons -- Exoskeletons on land -- Chalky skeletons -- Internal skeletons -- Aboriginal insights -- Vertebrate skeletons -- Vertebrate shells -- Bird skeletons -- Cheetah -- Mammal horns -- Deer antlers -- Skin, coats, and armor -- Permeable skin -- Getting oxygen -- Toxic skin -- Skin color -- Forming a shell -- Mollusk shells -- Vertebrate scales -- Reptile skin -- Advertisement colors -- In the mughal courts -- Frills and dewlaps -- Weapons and fighting -- Blending in -- Lichen katydid -- Feathers -- Flight feathers -- Display plumage -- Seasonal protection -- Mammal fur -- Expressionist nature -- Skin glands -- Horns from skin -- Armored skin -- Senses -- Sensitive antennae -- Sensory bristles -- Small world -- Sensory whiskers -- Sensing under water -- Tasting the air -- Sensing heat -- Electrical sense -- Detecting light -- Pupil shapes -- Compound eyes -- Color vision -- Seeing depth -- Common kingfisher -- Scent detection -- Smell in birds -- Song birds -- Smell in mammals -- How animals hear -- Mammal ears -- Listening for echoes -- Common dolphin -- Mouths and jaws -- Filter feeding -- Christmas tree worms -- Invertebrate jaws -- Injecting venom -- Vertebrate jaws -- Bird bills -- Bird bill shapes -- Art of the ornithologist -- Carnivore teeth -- Giant panda -- Eating plants -- Flexible faces -- Legs, arms, tentacles, and tails -- Tube feet -- Jointed legs -- Vertebrate limbs -- Vertebrate claws -- Tiger -- Sticky feet -- Raptor feet -- Climbing and perching -- Mammal hooves -- Alpine ibex -- Arthropod pincers -- Artists of the floating world -- swinging through tree -- Primate hands -- Orangutan -- Octopus arms -- Stinging tentacles -- Prehensile tails -- Pintailed whydah -- Fins, flippers, and paddles -- Nekton and plankton -- Blue dragon sea slug -- How fish swim -- Underwater wings -- Fish fins -- Swimming with the dorsal fin -- Four-winged flying fish -- Venomous spines -- Empire of abundance -- Walking on the seabed -- Returning to water -- Tail flukes -- Wings and parachutes -- Insect flight -- Scaly wings -- Gliding and parachuting -- How birds fly -- Lammergeier -- Bird wings -- Emperor penguin -- Hovering -- Egyptian birdlife -- Wings of skin -- Eggs and Offspring -- Making eggs -- Fertilization -- Parental devotion -- Polar bear -- Shelled eggs -- Bird eggs -- Marsupial pouches -- From larva to adult -- Amphibian metamorphosis -- Reaching maturity -- Classification -- Glossary.