How Animals Work
This book explains how kangaroo rats live in the hot desert where there is no water. It discusses how animals utilize heat exchangers to conserve body heat and moisture. I found it a useful book, because it discusses questions I have pondered and never seen mentioned elsewhere. Why do dogs pant? Why do they pant so rapidly? This is one of a number of everyday questions answered to my satisfaction. It is also a great pleasure to read a book by a well known professor and have him say that it was a student who solved an intriguing puzzle. Too often a professor later becomes confused and believes he was the one who solved the puzzle or the good idea is successfully ignored. This book should be required reading for architecture students in dry climates. These are the subjects to explore, these are the lessons to learn.
[Steve Baer, The Next Whole Earth Catalog, p.167]
【コンテンツ】
1. Respiration and evaporation
2. Panting and heat loss
3. How birds breathe
4. Exercise, energy, and evaporation
5. Countercurrent, a cheap trick
6. Body size and problems of scaling
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出版年:1972年
言語:英語
ページ数:114ページ
サイズ:14cm×21cm×1cm
【コンディション】
表紙・背表紙・裏表紙に傷みがあります。内部は概ね良好です。