How Not to Be Eaten (eBook)

The Insects Fight Back

Dr. Gilbert Waldbauer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
240 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95246-1 (ISBN)

Infos

All animals must eat. But who eats who, and why, or why not? Because insects outnumber and collectively outweigh all other animals combined, they comprise the largest amount of animal food available for potential consumption. How do they avoid being eaten? From masterful disguises to physical and chemical lures and traps, predatory insects have devised ingenious and bizarre methods of finding food. Equally ingenious are the means of hiding, mimicry, escape, and defense waged by prospective prey in order to stay alive. This absorbing book demonstrates that the relationship between the eaten and the eater is a central-perhaps the central-aspect of what goes on in the community of organisms. By explaining the many ways in which insects avoid becoming a meal for a predator, and the ways in which predators evade their defensive strategies, Gilbert Waldbauer conveys an essential understanding of the unrelenting coevolutionary forces at work in the world around us.

Inhalt

Prologue
Acknowledgments

1. Insects in the Web of Life
2. The Eaters of Insects
3. Fleeing and Staying under Cover
4. Hiding in Plain Sight
5. Bird Dropping Mimicry and Other Disguises
6. Flash Colors and Eyespots
7. Safety in Numbers
8. Defensive Weapons and Warning Signals
9. The Predators’ Countermeasures
10. Protection by Deception

Epilogue
Selected References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.2.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Tiere / Tierhaltung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Animal food • books about bugs • books for kids and adults • books for my grandson • bug camouflage • bug defensive mechanisms • Bugs • Camouflage • coevolutionary • Community • cool bugs • Defense Mechanisms • distraction for kids • easy to read • eat • Ecology • engaging • Entomology • Evolution • explained • Food Chain • food chain explained • food chain of bugs • fun books • fun facts • fun facts about bugs • gifts for kids • great for reluctant readers • how bugs survive • informative books • Insects • Invertebrates • invertebrates zoology • kids books • Kingdom • learning while reading • man vs beast • Math • Organisms • Predator • predator and prey • Prey • relationships • Science • science and math • survival techniques • survival techniques of bugs • what eats bugs • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95246-4 / 0520952464
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95246-1 / 9780520952461