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BIRD NAVIGATION - Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology
de Matthews, G. V. T
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- very good
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- First
- Estado
- Very Good/Very Good
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (vii) 141 pp. Pale blue boards with a small violet pictorial on the front panel; lettered in violet on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; bookplate on the front pastedown; no other interior markings. Illustrated with charts, maps and diagrams. The Contents are: Preface; The Contributions of Taxonomy and Field Observations; The Experimental Evidence for Bearing-and-Distance Navigation; Homing Experiments: Their Technique Results and a Possible Simple Explanation; The Reality of a Form of Complete Navigation in Birds; The Physical Basis of Simple One-Direction Navigation; Theories of Complete Navigation by the Maintenance of Sensory Contact with Home; Theories of a Complete Navigation by Means of a Grid Derived from the Earth's Rotation and Magnetism; Theories of a Complete Navigation by Means of a Grid Derived from the Sun's Co-ordinates; and Further Consideration of the Sun-Arc Hypothesis; followed by Scientific Names of Species Mentioned; References; and an index..
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- W. Fraser Sandercombe
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 229007
- Título
- BIRD NAVIGATION - Cambridge Monographs in Experimental Biology
- Autor
- Matthews, G. V. T
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Cambridge University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Cambridge, England
- Fecha de publicación
- 1955
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- birds; migration; avian eye; radar; natural history; albatross; hooded crow; black headed gull; herring; lesser black backed; homing; kinaesthetic learning; great shearwater; manx; starling; arctic tern;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Science; Outdoors - Wildlife and Nature;
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