Mysterious animal physiology

  • Wydawnictwo: SGGW
  • Dostępność: Wysyłka w 24 godziny
  • Autor: Tomasz K. Motyl
  • Wydawca, rok wydania: SGGW, 2021
  • Liczba stron : 148
  • Oprawa i wymiary: twarda, 145 x 205 mm
  • ISBN: 978-83-7583-977-7
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  • 28,90 zł
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From the Author
Electrical potential as a manifestation of cell life
Death determining the life
Autophagy as a cell survival tool
Sensory brain maps
Ammon’s horn – memory creator
Can the brain regenerate?
What do animals dream about?
Simulant opossum
Dogs detect cancers
Elephants hear from afar
Seeing the world in colors
Glowing wolf eyes
Hormone of darkness
Automatic heart
Why sperm whales do not suffer from decompression sickness?
Specifics of bird respiration
Why is the blood red?
Hemoglobin – blood gas transporter
To eat or not to eat?
Energy of food – condition of survival
Leptin – obesity hormone
Live bioreactors
Newspaper fed goats
Selenium – the lunar element
Why do small animals live shorter?
Why do deer antlers grow so fast?
Repair cells of the skeletal muscle
“Bodybuilders” in the animal world
Adapting a horse to the effort
Wintertime sleepers
Newly born piglets are shivering
Dog with hanging tongue
Hot hogs
Cold legs of penguins
These wonderful coolers
Life saving water
“Kissing” hormones
What is the maternal diagnosis of pregnancy?
Prolonged pregnancy
Biological birth clock
The mammary gland – larder of the newborn mammal
This wonderful first food