Toward this end, we work with experienced reviewers, editors, and artists to address complex material with lucid text and revealing conceptual diagrams. Clear, rigorous explanations of physiological concepts are a third key goal.
For example, as often as possible, we include drawings and photographs of animals being discussed, to ensure that readers are familiar with the subjects under discussion. Another of our key goals is to use graphics, drawings, and photographs to maximum advantage to communicate knowledge of animal physiology. Instead, we emphasize themes, worldviews, and overarching hypotheses. We have not sought to produce an encyclopedia. While recognizing this, our central goal remains the same as it was in earlier editions. Today that challenge is greater than ever because of the ceaseless escalation in the numbers of available facts. Themes-which collect facts into useful, coherent stories and worldviews-have always been the key challenge in textbook writing. In the contemporary information era, individual facts are easier to find than ever. Preface Our most important goal in this book is to articulate the themes and overarching hypotheses of modern animal physiology. To Sue, Dave, and Chrissie, from RWH To Mary, from GAW To Anita and Andy, from MA H54 2016 | DDC 571.1-dc23 LC record available at Printed in U. Identifiers: LCCN 2016005528 | ISBN 9781605354712 (casebound) Subjects: LCSH: Physiology, Comparative. | Sunderland, Massachusetts : Sinauer Associates, Inc., | Includes bibliographical references and index. Wyse, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Margaret Anderson, Smith College. Hill, Michigan State University, Gordon A. | Anderson, Margaret, 1941Title: Animal physiology / Richard W. FAX: 41 Email: Internet: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Address editorial correspondence and orders to: Sinauer Associates, 23 Plumtree Road, Sunderland, MA 01375 U.S.A. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission from the publisher.
Photo © Fred Ward/Corbis.Īnimal Physiology, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2016 by Sinauer Associates, Inc. Although cheetahs usually hunt by themselves, family groups like this one sometimes hunt together. The wildebeests need evade them for only another minute or two to survive. This source of ATP is fast and abundant, but short-lived. As soon as the cheetahs started sprinting, they started making ATP anaerobically. The running speeds of the two species depend on how fast their muscle cells can produce ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the required energy source for muscular work. Now exercise physiology will determine the outcome. The cheetahs have just sprinted to make a close approach to the wildebeest antelopes they are hunting. Publishers Sunderland, MassachusettsĪbout the Cover “Physiology in action” aptly describes this scene, photographed in the Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania, East Africa.
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