A book about how animals use their bodies and how they behave and why. Each chapter looks at a separate stage in the life of animals and how they all have to solve a particular set of problems if they are to survive and eventually pass on their genes to the next generation. The crab with stinging boxing gloves, the mother bat finding her baby among 10 million others, the cleaner-fish whose customers queue up in the sea, the lion who kills the cubs of a rival, the navigating ant and the viper that is a caterpillar - all ...
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A book about how animals use their bodies and how they behave and why. Each chapter looks at a separate stage in the life of animals and how they all have to solve a particular set of problems if they are to survive and eventually pass on their genes to the next generation. The crab with stinging boxing gloves, the mother bat finding her baby among 10 million others, the cleaner-fish whose customers queue up in the sea, the lion who kills the cubs of a rival, the navigating ant and the viper that is a caterpillar - all behave as they do for the same ultimate reason.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in Very good jacket. VGC plus/VGC. Collins/BBC, 1990. First edition-first printing. Red hardback (gilt lettering to the spine, small dent and nick on the edges of the cover) in VGC plus, with Dj (small tear on the edges of the front Dj cover, a couple of small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Illustrated with many colour photos. Nice and clean pages but with small marks inside the half-title page, previous owners label inside the edges of the front endpaper. The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. Price un-clipped.320pp including index. Heavy book (approx. 1.1 Kg).
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Near fine in Very good jacket. Near fine/VGC. Collins/BBC, 1990. First edition-first printing. Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine, small dent on the edges of the cover) in near fine condition, with Dj(small stain mark inside the edges of the back Dj cover, two nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover) in VGC. Illustrated with many colour photos. Nice and clean pages with two ink marks on the outer edges, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. Price clipped.320pp including index. Heavy book(approx. 1.1 Kg).
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Fine. Fine condition. Collins/BBC Books, 1992. First paperback edition-first printing. Large format paperback(two small scratches and nick on the edges of the cover and spine) in fine condition. Illustrated with many colour photos, map. The book is new with two small creases and nick on the edges of the pages.320pp including index. Heavy book (approx 1.1 Kg).
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Good. Previous owner was a smoker. Textblock has tanning. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches. Book content is in good readable condition. Glued binding. 320 p. (132 colour illustrations).
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Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
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A hardback volume in Very Good or better condition, very slight tanning to page margins otherwise Fine, in a Very Good dustjacket. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
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A hardback volume in Very Good condition, in a dustjacket with very large tear at lower front spine-tape repaired inside. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
