Feeding is invoked in some way in almost all the encounters and associations between different species. The choice of food is immense: plants grow in a multitude of forms, from seaweeds to cactuses and from grasses to forest trees: animal prey is available from tiny krill in the oceans to antelopes on the plains. As almost every species is accessible to another with the right feeding strategy, there is a continual evolutionary jostling between eater and eaten for the advantage over the other.Among both plants and animals elaborate strategies have evolved for exploring the surrounding life as food. The feeding behavior of predators is based on a search and strike strategy. In contrast, grazers live surrounded by their food and are relatively immobile. Such animals as impalas and grasshoppers, whose persistent feeding make them ready prey, have evolved means of avoiding the notice of predators or methods of speedy escape. Plants that digest animal tissue have evolved complex and devious means to attract prey.The variations in style of these feeding encounters and the precision involved in some of the feeding mechanisms are the themes of Feeding Strategy.

Survival in the Wild: Feeding Strategy

Science & Math

Halliday, Tim

Owen, Jennifer

Owen, D. F.

Biological Sciences

Oxford University Press

Feeding is invoked in some way in almost all the encounters and associations between different species. The choice of food is immense: plants grow in a multitude of forms, from seaweeds to cactuses and from grasses to forest trees: animal prey is available from tiny krill in the oceans to antelopes on the plains. As almost every species is accessible to another with the right feeding strategy, there is a continual evolutionary jostling between eater and eaten for the advantage over the other. Among both plants and animals elaborate strategies have evolved for exploring the surrounding life as food. The feeding behavior of predators is based on a search and strike strategy. In contrast, grazers live surrounded by their food and are relatively immobile. Such animals as impalas and grasshoppers, whose persistent feeding make them ready prey, have evolved means of avoiding the notice of predators or methods of speedy escape. Plants that digest animal tissue have evolved complex and devious means to attract prey. The variations in style of these feeding encounters and the precision involved in some of the feeding mechanisms are the themes of Feeding Strategy.

Feeding Strategy (Phoenix Series)

University of Chicago Press

The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years

Many suburban gardens are recognised as being rich in wildlife. Published accounts of their natural history, however, are largely antecdotal with little quantitative basis. This is therefore a unique documentation of the wildlife that existed in the author's Leicestershire garden over a fifteen year period between 1972 and 1986. In total, the diversity, abundance and yearly fluctuations of 1757 species of animal and 422 species of plant were recorded. After an introduction to urban wildlife, gardens and the natural history of Leicestershire, the author describes her garden and the techniques employed for trapping, collection and recording of the species. In discussion of the results from this fifteen year study, the author views the suburban garden as an ecological habitat. One of the most important conclusions reached by Dr Owen is that with increasing despoliation of the countryside, gardens will have considerable significance for conservation. This is an essential book for any professional or amateur ecologist interested in the ecological communities that exist within the suburban garden.

Cambridge University Press

Describes some of the more remarkable insects, how they attack and defend themselves, travel, reproduce themselves and live with humans, other animals and each other.

Mysteries and Marvels of Insect Life (Mysteries & Marvels Books)

Children's Books

Jackson, Ian

Harris, Alan

Shackell, John

Animals

Usborne Pub Ltd

Describes some of the more remarkable insects, how they attack and defend themselves, travel, reproduce themselves and live with humans, other animals and each other

Mysteries and Marvels of Insect Life

EDC Pub.]

Wildlife of a Garden: A Thirty-year Study

RHS Media

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Survival in the Wild: Feeding Strategy

Feeding Strategy (Phoenix Series)

The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years

The Ecology of a Garden: The First Fifteen Years

Mysteries and Marvels of Insect Life (Mysteries & Marvels Books)

Mysteries and Marvels of Insect Life

Wildlife of a Garden: A Thirty-year Study