Linzey - Vertebrate Biology - Chapter 13 pptx

... structures built by Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 13. Interspecific Interactions Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 380 Chapter Thirteen FIGURE 13. 5 Yellow-billed and red-billed oxpeckers (Buphagus ... animals during FIGURE 13. 10 A life-size regurgitated pellet from a short-eared owl (Asio flammeus). The pellet contains the remains of a small rodent. Linzey: Vertebrate Bi...

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... 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 Biology 12. Intraspecific ... the three-spine stickleback has been discussed by FitzGerald (1991, 1992). Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 12. Intraspecific Behavior and Ecology Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 36...

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... of invertebrates as well as by other verte- brate species (Chapter 13) . Many feed on invertebrates, including insects. Conversely, many vertebrates serve as food for other species (Chapter 13) . Humans ... 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-o...

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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 ... Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 2. Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 CHAPTER 2 Systematics and Vertebrate Evolution ■ INTRODUCTION Biologist...

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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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... gives recom- mendations of what to eat and what to avoid to be ecologi- cally responsible. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 5. Gnathostome Fishes Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 114 Chapter Five Remnants ... sim- ilar in the different groups of vertebrates, they will be dis- cussed here. In the other vertebrate groups, discussion will focus only on instances where a hormone has a d...

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... show consid- erable variation among closely related species developing at the same temperature. Linzey: Vertebrate Biology 6. Amphibians Text © The McGraw−Hill Companies, 2003 132 Chapter Six Eusthenopteron, ... 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:...

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... males. (a) 6 0- to 80-ton titanosaur; (b) 55-ton Supersaurus; (c) 45-ton Brachiosaurus (=Ultrasaurus); (d) 1 3- 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....

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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, ... series of long-chain methyl ketones (Mason et al., 1989). Females of related groups of snakes have some of the same methyl ketones as well as variations of the com- Linzey: Ve...

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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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