[PDF] The Hornbills eBook

Author : Margaret F. Kinnaird
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 44,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226437124

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Hornbills are among the world’s most distinct birds. Easily recognized by their oversized beaks adorned with large casques, they range from Africa to India and throughout Asia. One of the oldest bird orders, they have been known to mankind for millennia and loom large in the mythology of indigenous cultures of tropical Asia. In the past thirty years, ecologists have uncovered many fascinating aspects of hornbill biology, from their unique nest-sealing behavior to their roles as farmers of the forest. Building on fourteen years of research, Margaret F. Kinnaird and Timothy G. O’Brien offer in Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills the most up-to-date information on the evolution, reproduction, feeding ecology, and movement patterns of thirty-one species of Asian hornbills. The authors address questions of ecological functionality, ecosystem services, and keystone relationships, as well as the disturbing influence of forest loss and fragmentation on hornbills. Complemented by superb full-color images by renowned photographer Tim Laman that provide rare glimpses of hornbills in their native habitat and black-and-white illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon that highlight the intriguing aspects of hornbill behavior, Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills will stand tall in the pantheon of natural history studies for years to come.

Author : Alan C. Kemp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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Introducing a major new series... Bird Families of the World Editors: Christopher Perrins, Walter J. Bock, Jiro Kikkawa Providing the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available. Bird Families of the World is a new multi-volume series of handbooks, intended to serve the interests of both the professional scientist and the ever-growing body of amateur ornithologists. Each volume will provide acomprehensive and accurate synthesis of our knowledge of one bird family or several related families. Features include:- * Authoritative chapters on the birds' biology, feeding, ecology, breeding behaviour, evolutionary relationships and conservation * Specially commissioned colour plates by leading artists * Black and white drawings illustrating special features and behaviour * Full bibliography and index The Hornbills is a comprehensive account of all 54 species of these fascinating birds known for their interesting social behaviour and nesting habits. Introductory chapters provide a detailed overview of the family. These are followed by the 54 species accounts, each one giving a completedescription of the bird in its natural state. Much of the information is based on the author's own research in Africa and Asia.

Author : Benn Rhyens
Publisher : Bennie Van Rhyn
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0975643614

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In this epic adventure of destiny and betrayal in Namibia, two people pursue their hearts’ desire, with devastating consequences. Sixteen-year-old Ruben Odendaal knows little about romantic love. His whole life has unfolded within the bounds of the family farm, steeped in the shadows of painful racial tension and volatile politics. Then he meets Isabelle Hoffman, a girl with a universe of promise and possibility in her eyes, and suddenly, anything seems possible. But for all their deep yearning and devotion, Isabelle's mother has other plans, and their love is severed as quickly as it takes bloom. Decades later, when fate conspires to bring Ruben back into Isabelle’s life, time has only exacerbated their differences. Isabelle is now married to an affluent businessman, while Ruben longs to leave Africa and find a new beginning elsewhere. Namibia has also changed, but violence simmers alongside hate and despair. Longings deepen and secrets grow. Bound to pursue rekindled feelings, Isabelle and Ruben find the twin wills of power and prejudice before them, demanding an impossible sacrifice.

Author : Simon Fenton
Publisher : Eye Books (US&CA)
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1785630296

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Chasing Hornbills charts Simon Fenton's further adventures in Senegal. Now a father, and expanding his business interests to include a taxi firm and a restaurant, he continues to face the everyday frustrations and exhilarations that made Squirting Milk at Chameleons such a compelling and entertaining read. But as his understanding of Senegalese life and culture grows, so do questions about his future. Will the Accidental African settle permanently in his adopted home, or will he give up and return to his old familiar life?

Author : T.R. Shankar Raman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2019-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0199097550

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Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out there in far wildernesses—from the Thar desert to the Kalakad rainforests, from Narcondam Island to Namdapha—but amid us, in gardens and cities, in farms, along roadsides. And he writes about the forces that gouge land and disfigure landscapes, rip trees and shred forests, pollute rivers and contaminate the air, slaughter animals along roads and rail tracks—impelling a motivation to care, and to conserve nature. Through this collection of essays, Shankar Raman attempts to blur, if not dispel, the sharp separation between humans and nature, to lead you to discover that the wild heart of India beats in your chest, too.

Author : J. Lawrence Dew
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 140203833X

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In this book we undertake one of the first global-scale comparisons of the relationships between tropical plants and frugivorous animal communities, comparing sites within and across continents. In total, 12 primary contributors, including noted plant and animal ecologists, present newly-analyzed long-term datasets on the floristics and phenological rhythms of their study sites, identifying important seed dispersers and key plant taxa that sustain animal communities in Africa, Madagascar, Australasia, and the Neotropics.