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Catalogue of the tortoises, crocodiles, and amphisbænians, in the collection of the British Museum.
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Year: 1844 Publisher: London : Printed by order of the Trustees,

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Biology and evolution of crocodylians
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ISBN: 1486300677 9781486300679 9781486300662 1486300669 9780801454103 0801454107 1486300685 9781486300686 Year: 2015 Publisher: Ithaca Clayton South, VIC

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Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians is a comprehensive review of current knowledge about the world's largest and most famous living reptiles.Gordon Grigg's authoritative and accessible text and David Kirshner's stunning interpretive artwork and colour photographs combine expertly in this contemporary celebration of crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials. This book showcases the skills and capabilities that allow crocodylians to live how and where they do. It covers the biology and ecology of the extant species, conservation issues, crocodylian-human interaction and the evolutionary his


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Reproductive biology of the crocodylia
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ISBN: 9780128218075 012821807X 9780128218013 0128218010 Year: 2022 Publisher: London : Elsevier Inc.,

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Checklist of Host-Parasite Interactions of the Order Crocodylia
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ISBN: 0520957369 1299863310 9781299863316 9780520957367 9780520098893 Year: 2013 Publisher: Berkeley

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Records of parasitism in crocodilians date back to the early 1800's, distributed among various types of published and unpublished materials. Analyzing parasite-host specificity, geographic distribution, and taxonomy can provide otherwise cryptic details about crocodilian ecology and evolution, as well as their local food web dynamics. This information is critical for improved conservation tactics for both crocodilians and their habitat. As climate change, anthropogenic conflict, and environmental pollution endanger crocodilian ecosystems, there is a need for organized information on crocodile, alligator, caiman, and gharial infectious diseases. This volume meets this need by delivering the first checklist of crocodilians and their parasites for researchers and scholars in biology, herpetology, and ecology in order to further the knowledge and study of crocodilian-parasite dynamics and improve our understanding of human impacts on ecosystems.


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How to grieve : an ancient guide to the lost art of consolation
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ISBN: 0691220336 9780691220338 Year: 2022 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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"At the age of 33, Tullia Ciceronis died from complications due to childbirth. Her father, the consul Marcus Tullius Cicero, was utterly distraught, as his contemporary letters and passages in the Tusculan Disputations make clear. And in an effort to grieve, Cicero did something new in world history: for the first time, he wrote a consolation speech-not for others, as had always been done, but for himself. This was his coping strategy, and it prefigures the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and so many other thinkers throughout history who write letters to themselves. Cicero's Consolation was lost in antiquity. In the Renaissance, a philologist named Charles (Carlo) Sigoni recreated the speech. He gathered all the extant quotations and, on the analogy of restoring missing pieces of sculpture or lost paintings, he drew on everything he could find in Cicero to write a new speech that effectively recreated the lost one. And for a while, it worked. For centuries many great scholars believed Sigoni really had discovered the speech, rather than recreated it. Alas, subsequent scholarship has proven the opposite. Signoni very probably did write it. But the authorship question is less important than the contents. The speech shows that Sigoni knew all the conventions of the Consolation genre, and the historical events of Tullia's life, at least as well as any scholar then or now. It is a masterpiece: a fascinating read in Classical Latin, and it deserves a wide audience"--

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Consolation. --- Tullia, --- Cicero, Marcus Tullius. --- Consolatio. --- Adolescence. --- Agamedes. --- Aquifer. --- Atheism. --- Bou Craa. --- Carbon cycle. --- Cenozoic. --- Cetacea. --- Chaldea. --- Chemical reaction. --- Christian mortalism. --- Climate change. --- Crantor (mythology). --- Critical thinking. --- Crocodilia. --- Crop circle. --- Crying. --- Deep sea. --- Drinking water. --- Ectotherm. --- Electricity. --- Fauna. --- Fertilisation. --- Fertilizer. --- Fossil fuel. --- Fresh water. --- Generosity. --- Genre. --- Gnaeus (praenomen). --- Grandparent. --- Greatness. --- Greenhouse gas. --- Grief. --- Groundwater flow. --- Groundwater. --- Herodotus. --- Historical fiction. --- Homily. --- Hydrophiinae. --- Ichthyosaur. --- In Death. --- Inner peace. --- Integument. --- Lactation. --- Late Triassic. --- Literature. --- Mammal. --- Man alone (stock character). --- Marine biology. --- Marine mammal. --- Marine reptile. --- Mesozoic. --- Metabolism. --- Microstructure. --- Mining (military). --- Misery (novel). --- Misfortune (folk tale). --- Mosasaur. --- Neglect. --- Ogallala Aquifer. --- Oral tradition. --- Our Children. --- Pelagic zone. --- Petrarch. --- Phosphorus. --- Photosynthesis. --- Plesiosauria. --- Praetor. --- Predation. --- Priam. --- Proboscidea. --- Proverb. --- Rain. --- Reptile. --- Salt. --- Screaming. --- Sea turtle. --- Seawater. --- Sirenia. --- Skeleton. --- Soft tissue. --- Soil salinity. --- Soil. --- Stoicism. --- Surface water. --- Technology. --- Terence. --- Tetrapod. --- The Masses. --- The Stages of Life. --- Theramenes. --- Thermoregulation. --- Treatise. --- Tributary. --- Tullia Ciceronis. --- Vertebral column. --- Volition (psychology). --- Water bird. --- Water supply. --- Water use.

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