Wildlife Feeding And Nutrition (ANIMAL FEEDING AND NUTRITION)

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Research of the past ten years has made it increasingly clear that domestic animals and wild animals differ in their nutritional requirements. Nutritional management, beneficial to domestic animals, may actually be life-threatening to wild ones. This new edition of Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent insights, especially with regard to wildlife nutrition essential to successful management either in the wild or in captivity.
Zoological garden and laboratory personnel, wildlife biologists, ecologists, animal nutritionists, and veterinarians will benefit from this new edition.

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An excellent reference.......2000-06-26

Robbins' "Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition" is an excellent synthesis of ecological physiology as typically practiced by wildlife management professionals. As suggested by the title, the emphasis is on forage, nutrient requirements, energy demands, and production.

Robbins tackles the subject from a physiological, rather than strictly ecological, standpoint. Not surprisingly, ungulates (both wild and domestic) provide most of the resources, although Robbins takes pains to make his discussions as general as possible.

"Wildlife Feeding and Nutrition" is positively packed with literature, charts, figures, tables, and even a few photographs.

This is not a how-to manual for veterinarians and zookeepers, but instead a synthesis of physiological concepts.

All together, a well-written reference. I'm looking forward to the third edition -William Adair, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Utah State University

Diverse feeding responses of five species of bivalve mollusc when exposed to three species of harmful algae.: An article from: Journal of Shellfish Research
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Diverse feeding responses of five species of bivalve mollusc when exposed to three species of harmful algae.: An article from: Journal of Shellfish Research
Helene Hegaret , Gary H. Wikfors , and Sandra E. Shumway
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000WCWRXE
Release Date: 2007-09-20

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Shellfish Research, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 10249 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Diverse feeding responses of five species of bivalve mollusc when exposed to three species of harmful algae.
Author: Helene Hegaret
Publication: Journal of Shellfish Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 26 Issue: 2 Page: 549(11)

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The effect of predation (current and historical) by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on fish abundance near Kodiak Island, Alaska.: An article from: Fishery Bulletin

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The effect of predation (current and historical) by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on fish abundance near Kodiak Island, Alaska.: An article from: Fishery Bulletin
Briana H. Witteveen , Robert J. Foy , and Kate M. Wynne
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000EQ49C0
Release Date: 2006-02-24

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This digital document is an article from Fishery Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 8206 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The effect of predation (current and historical) by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on fish abundance near Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Author: Briana H. Witteveen
Publication: Fishery Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 104 Issue: 1 Page: 10(11)

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Feeding habits of European hake (Merluccius merluccius) in the central Mediterranean Sea. : An article from: Fishery Bulletin

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Feeding habits of European hake (Merluccius merluccius) in the central Mediterranean Sea. : An article from: Fishery Bulletin
Paolo Carpentieri , Francesco Colloca , Massimiliano Cardinale , Andrea Belluscio , and Giandomenico D. Ardizzone
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This digital document is an article from Fishery Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 4260 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Feeding habits of European hake (Merluccius merluccius) in the central Mediterranean Sea.
Author: Paolo Carpentieri
Publication: Fishery Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 103 Issue: 2 Page: 411(6)

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Feeding habits of the dwarf weakfish (Cynoscion nannus) off the coasts of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico.: An article from: Fishery Bulletin

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Feeding habits of the dwarf weakfish (Cynoscion nannus) off the coasts of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico.: An article from: Fishery Bulletin
Alma R. Raymundo-Huizar , Horacio Perez-Espana , Maite Mascaro , and Xavier Chiappa-Carrara
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000AM3XO8
Release Date: 2005-07-26

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This digital document is an article from Fishery Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 5162 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Feeding habits of the dwarf weakfish (Cynoscion nannus) off the coasts of Jalisco and Colima, Mexico.
Author: Alma R. Raymundo-Huizar
Publication: Fishery Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 103 Issue: 2 Page: 453(8)

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A new in situ method for measuring seston uptake by suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs.: An article from: Journal of Shellfish Research

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A new in situ method for measuring seston uptake by suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs.: An article from: Journal of Shellfish Research
Raymond E. Grizzle , Jennifer K. Greene , Mark W. Luckenbach , and Loren D. Coen
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Shellfish Research, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 4688 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A new in situ method for measuring seston uptake by suspension-feeding bivalve molluscs.
Author: Raymond E. Grizzle
Publication: Journal of Shellfish Research (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25 Issue: 2 Page: 643(7)

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Feeding and nutrition of animals in rehabilitation centers: Advanced skills seminar, session V

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Feeding and nutrition of animals in rehabilitation centers: Advanced skills seminar, session V
Murray E Fowler
Manufacturer: International Wildlife Rehabilitation Council
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Rehabilitation of North American wild mammals: Feeding and nutrition

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Rehabilitation of North American wild mammals: Feeding and nutrition
Debbie Marcum
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Salmonid nutrition (Progress reports / Fish Division, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)

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Salmonid nutrition (Progress reports / Fish Division, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)
J. W Westgate
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Salmonid nutrition: Annual progress report (Progress reports / Fish Division, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)

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Salmonid nutrition: Annual progress report (Progress reports / Fish Division, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife)
J. W Westgate
Manufacturer: Fish Division, Oregon Dept. of Fish and Wildlife
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Discover the best places to go in the Oregon Cascades for backcountry skiing and snowboarding. In his new guide, Christopher Van Tilburg explores ungroomed powdery slopes and pristine wilderness descents, with more than half the routes described for intermediate-level backcountry skiers. The 60 routes here feature overall difficulty ratings, elevation and terrain, estimated skiing times, USGS topographical maps, skill levels required, and much more. Van Tilburg includes expert advice on safety, glaciers, and avalanche precautions, and details routes from Mount Hood to Mount Bachelor to Willamette Pass, as well as southwest Washington's Mount St. Helens and Mount Adams.

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review.......2002-05-23

Backcountry ski oregon is a nice guide. The photos are not as good as the ones in oregon descents but it offers a few more routes. Some of the routes are part of ski areas. useful book

Excellent!.......2001-06-10

What makes Van Tilburg's latest guidebook so good has a lot to do with why Van Tilburg was the perfect person to write it. He's not only an expert skier and snowboarder, but he's also an expert mountaineer, canyoneer, and wilderness medicine physician. When he guides you on these classic descents, you are in good hands. He not only shows you the best places to go, but makes sure you have the information to stay safe and get home in one piece. Let's face it -- if we were experts we wouldn't need a guidebook. If we need a guidebook, we need one written by someone with experience and good sense. Van Tilburg is a good man to follow.

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Ordinary mortals and poet scholars alike will find something to love in Koch's down-to-earth approach to making sense of that most head scratching of literary genres. Asserting that "poetry ... is a separate language," he steers clear of the stodgy, hidden-meaning school of deciphering poems (wherein the reader digs through the poem "for some elusive and momentous significance") and takes us instead on a tour through the tonal, rhythmical, and metrical aspects of poetry. Yes, it's about the music: "The sound of words is raised to an importance equal to that of their meaning, and also to the importance of grammar and syntax." But rather than asking us to simply take his word for it, Koch provides lively and insightful examples (including many rarely anthologized poems). For instance, why does "two and two are rather green" have little or no meaning, while "two and two / Are rather blue" smacks of the truth? Why does "I don't know whether or not to commit suicide" plop from the mouth like so much cold oatmeal, while "To be or not to be, that is the question" is so pleasing to the ears? Resonance, says Koch. "Poetry lasts because it gives the ambiguous and ever-changing pleasure of being both a statement and a song."

Moving from poetry's music to its methods (comparisons, personifications, and apostrophe, to name a few), Koch continues to offer up an amusing and edifying array of excerpts and analogies to clarify his point that with poetry, "as with baseball ... one has to understand a little in order to enjoy it...." Insightful, yet never patronizing, Making Your Own Days is for anyone who's ever read a poem and wished it were more "like a newspaper article." Though Koch can't tell us why Wallace Stevens wrote "I placed a jar in Tennessee," or why "So much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow" (William Carlos Williams), he helps us listen to--and savor--that sometimes bewildering conglomeration of words otherwise known as poetry. --Martha Silano

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In Making Your Own Days, celebrated poet Kenneth Koch writes about poetry as no one has written about it before -- and as if no one had written about it before. Full of fresh and exciting insights and experiences, this book makes the somewhat mysterious subject of poetry clear for those who read it and for those who write it -- and for those who would like to read and write it better. Treating poetry not as a special use of language but, in fact, as a separate language -- unlike the one used in prose and conversation -- Koch is able to clarify the nature of poetic inspiration, how poems are written and revised, and what happens in a reader's mind and feelings while reading a poem.

Koch also provides a rich anthology of more than ninety works: lyric poems, excerpts from long poems and poetic plays, poems in English, and poems in translation -- by poets past and present from Homer and Sappho to Lorca, Snyder, and Ashbery. Each selection is accompanied by an illuminating explanatory note designed to complement and clarify the text.

In this book, Kenneth Koch's genius for making poetry clear and for bringing out its real pleasures is everywhere apparent.

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Good book for writers.......2003-05-24

This is excellent for beginning readers and writers of poetry. In the essays at the beginning, Koch is successful at convincing the reader that poetry is not as hard as we make it out to be. If we relax and don't allow ourselves to be intimidated, we can enjoy poetry. The rest of the book is devoted to groups of poems, each by one poet, thereby allowing the reader to get to know writers' styles. At the end of each section is a poetry writing exercise asking the reader to write a poem in the style they have just read. These are excellent exercises for broadening anyone's writing; they have certainly broadend my own writing. The only criticism that I have of the book is that the poets included are mostly men. I would think that it could have been more inclusive of women, especially the confessional poets such as Plath whose style new poets may grasp. Overall, this is a great book for teachers, writers, and readers.

Good book for writers.......2003-05-24

This is an excellent book for beginning readers and writers of poetry. Koch introduces the reader to poetry as an art form that can be accessible if one does not make it too hard; he makes poetry less intimidating, more comfortable. He tries to explain how we can understand it without feeling stupid. Then, he groups poems by poet so that the reader can get to know each poet's style. Finally, each section is followed by an exercise directing the reader to write in a given poet's style. I have found the exercises thought provoking; they have broadened my own writing. My only criticism is that most of the great poets represented are men. The same could certainly be done and very successfully with more women poets, especially the confessional poets such as Plath. Overall, a great book for teachers, for writers, and for those who would like to know more about poetry but who need some convincing.

4.7 stars : Something of a gem!.......2003-04-04

Am daunted, in the task of writing a review, by the fact that the previous reviewers all got it exactly right! The late Kenneth Koch (1925-2002), whimsical poet, teacher, and enthusiast for the evangel of poetry here gives us a book ideally suited for any poet or reader from high-schooler to nonagenarian.

The first 135 pages of the book are something of an instruction manual, or an explanation of why poetry seems so strange at first. He patiently explains the obvious : sound matters as much as sense; words have musical value; there is a "poetry language" -- or perhaps several poetry languages? -- that we discover through reading anything & everything in sight. He comes up with the happy comparison of poetry as language being put through a synthesizer!

He speaks of the need to build up a "poetry base" through much exposure to the poems of the past and present; he "opens up" the Wallace Stevens poem "Anecdote of the Jar" and makes enchanting a poem that irritated me on previous readings; he makes apposite remarks on revision and inspiration ...

The latter half of the book is a neat -- but not quite comprehensive, as Koch himself admits -- anthology of poetry from across the globe, & encompassing three millennia. From Li Po (Li Bai) to Lorca, from Sappho to Snyder, from Ovid to O'Hara. Senghor and Cesaire are alongside Ashbery and Wallace Stevens. Marvell and Shakespeare, Whitman and Hopkins and several in between, before and after. Most of the poems are suffixed by a comment by Koch of less than a page (except for Keats's "Bright Star" which he allows to shine by itself!). Especially good, I thought, his brief note on the sonnet by George Herbert, "Prayer," which I have been trying of late to memorize.

Excellent reading for the train, the waiting room, the bed, or whatever region of the house you call your workshop or study!!

For writing, not just reading poetry........2003-01-31

A superb introduction to the world of poetry. For my money, it does the best job of describing exactly what poetry is and how it's different from other forms of writing. Poetry is a language within a language and the essential element of this language is music. Meter and rhyme, similies and metaphors, these and other tools available to a poet are all about creating music and music is what makes a poem sing. All writing advice boils down to read a lot and write a lot. This book makes both tasks easier.

Modern poetry in accessible form.......2002-11-22

This poem brings a sophisticated contemporary sensibility to poetry in a wholly non-threatening way. Koch writes in a way a child could understand, yet his choice of poetic texts is refreshing. None of the standard Sandburg and Frost stuff that turns intelligent children (and adults) off from poetry.

There are some great comments about little-known poets like Joseph Ceravolo.

Making Your Own Days. The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry.
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Making Your Own Days. The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry.
KENNETH. KOCH
Manufacturer: New York: Scribner,
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000UBBV4S

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Calligraphy is often regarded as the purest manifestation of an artist's inner character and level of cultivation, as well as the expression of his soul, thoughts, and feelings. This lovely book presents some fifty-eight Japanese works, almost all calligraphy, from the remarkable collection formed over the last forty years by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, literary scholars who became enraptured by the Japanese art of the brush.

Spanning more than a thousand years from the Nara period (710-794) through the nineteenth century, the material includes sublime early sutras, or transcriptions of the Buddha's discourses; an extraordinary mandala that is perhaps the finest example of its kind in the West; seminal works by such renowned figures as My¯oe, K¯oetsu, Mus¯o, Konoe, and Daishin; engaging letters and poems that illuminate courtly life; and powerful graphic statements by Zen monk-artists.

The opening essay by Sylvan Barnet and William Burto, which is directed to a non-Japanese reader, gives an illuminating look at the ways in which Japanese calligraphy can be appreciated. Miyeko Murase's introduction provides a rich commentary on the Japanese calligraphic scripts and scribes and an insightful overview of the society and world in which this art flourished.

This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 1, 2002, to March 2, 2003.

Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
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Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection
Miyeko Murase
Manufacturer: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSD0E6

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