Books in the SpringerBriefs in Animal Sciences series

This handbook gives a comprehensive and copious illustrated description, with original art work, of the most common diseases in laboratory reared insect colonies, comprising Viruses (Baculoviridae, Reoviridae, Poxviridae, Iridoviridae);

This book offers a comprehensive review of the biology of snakes, focusing on Italian species. The book concludes with a chapter on the iconography of historical Italian snakes and their importance in popular science, and one on myths and legends.

This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution of traits associated with predation and predator defense for bats and all of their prey, both invertebrates (e.g.

This SpringerBrief provides a concise summary on the chemistry and function of murine pheromones in reproduction. However, pheromones have many functions and one that perhaps is not well known yet is that they affect the reproductive status of others. Males' pheromones stimulate females' reproductive status and vice versa.

This SpringerBrief answers the question on how birds recognize their predators using multidisciplinary approaches and outlines paths of the future research of predator recognition. The first part of the book provides a comprehensive review of the mechanisms of predator recognition based on classical ethological studies in untrained birds.