Useful zoological books for beginners

parlare

Hello, friends!
I want to refresh my knowledge in zoology, because since school I have nearly forgot it. please, advise me interesting and useful books
I do my search myself, and even found a lot of serious scientific books in the free scientific library, for example that:
http://reslib.com/book/Zoology__Miller_S_A__
but I want something else, especially for beginning))
Thank you very much!

Acrimoniously Challenged

When I was doing my undergraduate degree we had a module in first year that you HAD to do called Animal Evolution and Diversity. Anyway, they recommended a book called "Biology" by Campbell and Reece. I bought it but I never really used it so I can't fully comment on how useful the book is. It would be basic enough and, while it covers other topics of biology, it does have a very promising section called "Animal Form and Function".

Maybe it's too basic but you would just have to decide for yourself.
Hope this helps.

beardedmaster

Acrimoniously Challenged wrote: »

When I was doing my undergraduate degree we had a module in first year that you HAD to do called Animal Evolution and Diversity. Anyway, they recommended a book called "Biology" by Campbell and Reece. I bought it but I never really used it so I can't fully comment on how useful the book is. It would be basic enough and, while it covers other topics of biology, it does have a very promising section called "Animal Form and Function".

Maybe it's too basic but you would just have to decide for yourself.
Hope this helps.

Taz Crowe ftw.

Acrimoniously Challenged

beardedmaster wrote: »

Taz Crowe ftw.

Agreed! The only reason that module was even half bearable.

steddyeddy

Acrimoniously Challenged wrote: »

Agreed! The only reason that module was even half bearable.

Ah tom hayden has his moments too!

beardedmaster

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ah tom hayden has his moments too!

Particularly when he's standing infront of the above picture of Darwin... with whom, minus the sideburns, he looks particularly like....

Improbable

I always thought he looked like John Billingsley

Hollzy

I'm almost finished my first year of college now.. I'm doing science and planning to do my moderatorship in zoology. We Use Campbell's Biology as well. It's a great background to many fields in biology so it's a good one to have lying around. If you look in the Biology or Natural History sections in Hodges Figgis, you'll find lots of books at varying levels of complexity. Oh, and you should definitely read 'On the Origin of Species' if you haven't already. Some nice books to flick through include the IUCN Red List 'Species on the Edge of Survival' and I'm very attached to my copy of 'A Field Guide to the Carnivores of the World' by Luke Hunter and Priscilla Barrett. If you want something more advanced, you could try 'Animal Behaviour' by Chris Barnard; I quite like that one.

sandyfordboi

I do plant sciences (fancy way of saying botany) but we had a ecology module this year and our recomended was Begon, M., Townsend, C.R. & Harper, J.L. (2006) Ecology: from Individuals to Ecosystems. Fourth edition. Blackwell Publishing. Its fairly advanced but it is really good at explaining ecological concepts with regards to zoology! Campells is pretty good also just depends what level you want to get too!