This new edition will do much to instruct and delight students of animal physiology. Possibly this could be emphasized in a later edition by including some questions at the end of each chapter. The information is presented in a lucid and interesting manner with a quantitative analysis of the data always in the foreground. As most readers are aware, Animal Physiology is very readable, clear and didactic. One answer would be for Professor Schmidt-Nielsen to write a companion volume (with an endocrinologist co-author) on endocrinology and reproduction. Movement, information and integration (nervous and hormonal) have been expanded and take a further 180 pages, though hormonal control only has 30 pages of this. The accent of the book is still mainly on respiration, circulation, temperature control, metabolism, osmoregulation and excretion. The third edition of this well known text book with its emphasis on adaptation and he environment has been brought up to date. Lactation: physiology, nutrition and breast-feeding-edited by M. 261 263, 1985 Pergam.,~n Press L~I, Printed in Great BritainīOOK REVIEWS Animal physiology-by K.
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