How Animals Work

by Knut Schmidt-Nielsen

Book Overview

An elegant analysis of how animals work and function. Professor Schmidt-Nielsen's incisive account gives a clear understanding of comparative physiology in relation to body size, form and function, energy supply, and environment. The author is concerned with principles. For example, he explains how difficult it may be to lose heat and water from the respiratory tract. This leads to a consideration of the mechanism of panting as a means of heat loss...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521096928
• ISBN13: 9780521096928
• Release Date: June 1972
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent but very over-priced for a small paperback

One of the best introductions to the thoughtful analysis of physiological adaptations of animals. Extremely well-written for a general audience as well as rigorously grounded in fundamental chemistry and physics with surprising tales for those new to this discipline. It is an extremely small paperback; buy it used for one-tenth the price.

An absolute must for anyone who wants to understand animals

There are many people in the world who don't realize that Animal Physiology is the most intensely interesting thing that anybody could ever study. This book will make sure that you are not one of those people.

Outstanding work on environmental physiology.

This is one of the best, if not the best, introduction to the understanding of environmental physiology. Schmidt-Nielsen takes the stance that the adaptation of animals to their environment profoundly decides the nature of their physiology and behavior. Steve Popkes, Boston, MA