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The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions?Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior.Pigeons, for instance-when understood as marvels of engineering-are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.

Physiology. --- Animals --- Animal ecophysiology. --- Animal ecological physiology --- Animal physiological ecology --- Physiological animal ecology --- Animal ecology --- Ecophysiology --- Physiology --- Animal adaptation --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Animal physiology --- Biology --- Anatomy --- Adaptation.

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This book summarises the newest information on seasonal adaptation in animals. Topics include animal hibernation, daily torpor, thermoregulation, heat production, metabolic depression, biochemical adaptations, neurophysiology and energy balance. The contributors to this book present interdisciplinary research at multiple levels ranging from the molecular to the ecophysiological, as well as evolutionary approaches. The chapters of this book provide original data not published elsewhere, which makes it the most up-to-date, comprehensive source of information on these fields. The book’s subchapters correspond to presentations given at the 14th International Hibernation Symposium in August 2012 in Austria. This is a very successful series of symposia (held every four years since 1959) that attracts leading researchers in the field. Like the past symposia, this meeting – and consequently the book – is aimed not only at hibernation but at covering the full range of animal adaptations to seasonal environments. For the next four years, this book will serve as the cutting-edge reference work for graduate students and scientists active in this field of physiology and ecology.

Animal ecology. --- Animal Physiology. --- Animals -- Adaptation. --- Biochemistry. --- Body temperature -- Regulation. --- Cytology. --- Acclimatization --- Body temperature --- Metabolism --- Animals --- Adaptation (Physiology) --- Adaptation, Physiological --- Eukaryota --- Homeostasis --- Body Temperature --- Physiological Processes --- Metabolic Phenomena --- Physiological Phenomena --- Adaptation, Biological --- Phenomena and Processes --- Organisms --- Biological Processes --- Biological Phenomena --- Body Temperature Regulation --- Hibernation --- Human Anatomy & Physiology --- Zoology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Physiology --- Animal Behavior --- Ecology --- Regulation --- Adaptation --- Climatic factors --- Life sciences. --- Regulation. --- Adaptation. --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Animal adaptation --- Control of metabolism --- Metabolic control --- Metabolic regulation --- Regulation of metabolism --- Regulation of body temperature --- Temperature adaptation --- Thermoregulation --- Veterinary medicine. --- Cell biology. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Animal physiology. --- Life Sciences. --- Animal Ecology. --- Animal Biochemistry. --- Cell Biology. --- Veterinary Medicine. --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Science --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Biological control systems --- Evolution (Biology). --- Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science. --- Animal evolution --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Farriery --- Large animal medicine --- Large animal veterinary medicine --- Livestock medicine --- Veterinary science --- Medicine --- Animal health --- Domestic animals --- Livestock --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Animal physiology --- Anatomy --- Cell biology --- Cellular biology --- Cells --- Cytologists --- Diseases --- Losses --- Composition