| Edition |
First electronic edition, 2019. |
| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) : digital, PDF file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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PDF |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Access restricted to LAC onsite clients. Online access with authorization. CaOONL |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Birds -- Ecology.
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Birds -- Ecology. |
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Birds -- Parasites.
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Birds -- Parasites. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stock, Michael (Terrance Michael) Flying zoo. First edition. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press, 2019 1772123749 9781772123746 (OCoLC)1018045276 |
| ISBN |
9781772124408 (PDF) |
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1772124400 (PDF) |
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9781772123746 |
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1772123749 (Trade Paper) |
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9781772123746 |
| Standard No. |
9781772123746 |
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