Life in a Shell : : A Physiologist's View of a Turtle / / Donald C. Jackson.
Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observa...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 11 halftones, 12 line illustrations |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t 1. The Turtle's Shell -- |t 2. Buoyancy -- |t 3. The Breathing Turtle -- |t 4. Tortuguero -- |t 5. Overwintering without Breathing -- |t 6. Living without Oxygen -- |t 7. The Heart of a Turtle -- |t 8. Life in the Slow Lane -- |t Epilogue -- |t References -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Index |
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520 | |a Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years, turtles have seen dinosaurs come and go, mammals emerge, and humankind expand its dominion. Is it any wonder the persistent reptile bested the hare? In this engaging book physiologist Donald Jackson shares a lifetime of observation of this curious creature, allowing us a look under the shell of an animal at once so familiar and so strange. Here we discover how the turtle's proverbial slowness helps it survive a long, cold winter under ice. How the shell not only serves as a protective home but also influences such essential functions as buoyancy control, breathing, and surviving remarkably long periods without oxygen, and how many other physiological features help define this unique animal. Jackson offers insight into what exactly it's like to live inside a shell-to carry the heavy carapace on land and in water, to breathe without an expandable ribcage, to have sex with all that body armor intervening. Along the way we also learn something about the process of scientific discovery-how the answer to one question leads to new questions, how a chance observation can change the direction of study, and above all how new research always builds on the previous work of others. A clear and informative exposition of physiological concepts using the turtle as a model organism, the book is as interesting for what it tells us about scientific investigation as it is for its deep and detailed understanding of how the enduring turtle "works." | ||
530 | |a Issued also in print. | ||
538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) | |
650 | 0 | |a Physiology, Comparative. | |
650 | 0 | |a Physiology. | |
650 | 0 | |a Turtles |x Physiology. | |
650 | 4 | |a SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (see also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology). | |
650 | 4 | |a SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology. | |
650 | 4 | |a SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology. | |
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