Product Description

This dictionary is a comprehensive reference work on all aspects of the study of animals. Fully revised for this edition, with over 5000 entries, it provides wide coverage of topics including animal behaviour, ecology, physiology, genetics, cytology, evolution, and Earth history. There is taxonomic coverage of arthropods, other invertebrates, fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals. The text has been revised to incorporate the discovery of "extremophiles" - organisms living in environments formerly considered impossibly hostile - and the toxonomic reclassification that this has entailed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1047618 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

Review
a fine compendium of unquestionable use ... Make sure you have an Allaby handy Nature

About the Author
Michael Allaby is a well-known writer on science and the environment. He is General Editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Natural History.

Customer Reviews

Very useful!
I like all these Oxford science dictionaries. Mine are v dog-eared from constant grabbing from my side when reading through heavy textbooks. They're great because the entries can be extensive without being too long-winded. Well cross-referenced too. Once you look up one thing you'll end up looking up far more!

Brilliant dictionary....certainly not comrehensive
This is a wonderful dictionary, and I will sometimes end up reading it like a book! I gave it 4 stars however basically because there do appear to be quite a few words which are completely absent where their presence would have been appreciated. However it is great, it will not be the last zoology dictionary you ever need to buy, but despite that it is worth the purchase.

Oxford Dictionary of Zoology
I am a first year student doing a science degree and am not overly impressed with this book. Doesn't appear to be very compehensive. Have had to refer back to the old faithful 'Henderson's Dictionary of Biology' for quite a few zoological words that should be in it but are not.