Dinosaur Behavior (eBook)

An Illustrated Guide

Mike Benton (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-25496-8 (ISBN)

Infos

A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologistPaleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science. Today, researchers are applying the latest forensic technologies to the fossil record, revealing startling new insights into the lives of dinosaurs. This illustrated guide explores the behavior, evolution, physiology, and extinction of dinosaurs, taking readers inside the mysterious world of these marvelous animals. With specially commissioned illustrations by Bob Nicholls, Dinosaur Behavior explains how the dinosaurs lived and courted, fought and fed, signaled and interacted with each other, and much more.Features a wealth of breathtaking illustrations throughoutOffers new perspectives on the prehistoric world inhabited by dinosaursSheds light on how dinosaurs actually looked, how they moved, and how fast they ranExplains the feeding habits of carnivores, herbivores, scavengers, and solitary huntersDiscusses sight, hearing, smell, spatial orientation, and intelligenceBrings to life the social behavior of dinosaurs, from mating and parenting to herd dynamics and migrationTakes readers behind the scenes of the latest, most thrilling discoveries

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.10.2023
• Illustrationen: Bob Nicholls
• Zusatzinfo: 150 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: Academic. • Behaviour • Biology • carnivores • Dinosaur • Dinosaur behavior • Dinosaur feeding habits • dinosaur hearing • dinosaur herd dynamics • Dinosaur intelligence • dinosaur mating • dinosaur migration • dinosaur parenting • dinosaur ran • dinosaur smell • dinosaur spatial orientation • Ecology • Ethology • Herbivores • how dinosaurs moved • Michael Benton • Natural History • Palaeontology • paleontology • prehistoric world • Princeton University Press • recent dinosaur research • Reptiles • Research • scavengers • social behavior of dinosaurs • solitary hunters dinosaur sight • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-691-25496-6 / 0691254966
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-25496-8 / 9780691254968