Linzey - Vertebrate Biology - Chapter 12 pptx

... develop aberrant songs. While Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 12. Intraspecific Behavior and Ecology Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 368 Chapter Twelve FIGURE 12. 12 Common poorwill (Phalaenoptilus ... summer months. These mam- mals usually seek out an underground burrow where the ambi- ent temperature is considerably cooler than it is on the surface. Linzey: Vertebrate Biol...

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... selection brings Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 13. Interspecific Interactions Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 376 Chapter Thirteen together, one species of Paramecium drove a second, com- peting ... Woodchuck (Marmota monax) burrows also are used by a wide variety of vertebrates and invertebrates. Turtles often deposit their Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 13. Interspecific Inte...

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... by other sala- manders and frogs. In some cases, the male parent guards the eggs. Altricial One-day-old meadowlark Precocial One-day-old ruffed grouse FIGURE 1.21 Comparison of 1-day-old altricial ... recessed in paired, blind-ended pits known as nasal sacs. In all other ver- tebrates, the olfactory region is connected to the oral cavity. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 1. The Vertebrate St...

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... class of vertebrates are given in Chapters 4–6, 7, and 9. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 44 Chapter Two Vertebrate ... nomenclature (two names) Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution 37 FIGURE 2...

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... primitive Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 4. Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 Early Chordates and Jawless Fishes 81 (a) (b) (a) Arandaspis, a 470-million-year-old ... believed that cephalochordates were the probable vertebrate ancestors. As evidence, they cited the discovery of the mid-Cambrian 52 0- million-year-old Pikaia gracilens, a cephaloc...

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... of the yolk sac form a pla- centa-like connection to the wall of the uterus, which sup- plies the developing young with nourishment during the remainder of the 9- to 1 2- month gestation period. In ... need and stimulate increased production of adrenocor- Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 5. Gnathostome Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 112 Chapter Five Bulla Digestive tra...

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... forms was estab- lished by the end of the Devonian. Two other groups of labyrinthodonts evolved: the tem- nospondyls and the anthracosaurs. Members of the order Tem- Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 6. ... Teleost fish (a) Vertebrate embryo (e) Anuran 123 456 3456 3456 3456 34 6 3 - Carotid arch 4 - Systemic arch 6 - Pulmonary arch FIGURE 6.17 Arrangement of the aortic arches in...

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... males. (a) 6 0- to 80-ton titanosaur; (b) 55-ton Supersaurus; (c) 45-ton Brachiosaurus (=Ultrasaurus); (d) 13-ton Shantungosaurus; (e) 6-ton Triceratops; (f) 7-ton Tyrannosaurus; (g) 16-ton Indricotherium; ... (g) 16-ton Indricotherium; (h) 2-ton Rhinoceros; (i) 5-ton Megacerops; (j) 10-ton Mammuthus; (k) 6-ton Loxodonta; (l) 0.3-ton Panthera; (m) 1-ton Scutosaurus; (n) 1-ton Megalania. Hu...

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... Besides their function of allowing side-to-side movement of the vertebral column, epaxial muscles take on new functions including support and Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 8. Reptiles: Morphology, Reproduction, ... 58.5-kg antelope that was swallowed by an African rock python (Diamond, 1994). An Asian reticulated python consumed a 12. 6-kg goat and a 17.5-kg goat at one sitting, and then...

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... artic- ulation permits the typical vertical (up-and-down) move- ment of the head, whereas the atlas–axis articulation allows lateral (side-to-side) movements of the head. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology ... mid-1980s and Eosimias in 1994, the oldest well-documented anthropoids came from 36-million-year-old rocks in Egypt, suggesting that such creatures arose in Africa; however, the Eosimias f...

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