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Engineering Animals Engineering Animals h o w l i f e w o r k s Mark Denny Alan McFadzean the belknap press of harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England 2011 Copyright © 2011 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Denny, Mark, 1953– Engineering animals : how life works / Mark Denny and Alan McFadzean. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-674-04854-6 (alk. paper) 1. Physiology. 2. Animals—Adaptation. 3. Animal ecophysiology. I. McFadzean, Alan, 1958– II. Title. QP31.2.D46 2011 591.7—dc22 2010051355 Mark dedicates this book to a mammal, Jane Denny, with love Alan dedicates this book to his pack: Anita, Kirsty, and Gordon Contents Prologue 1 part one: Structure and Movement Go with the Flow 7 Structural Engineering: Th e Bare Bones 35 A Moving Experience 58 A Mind of Its Own 81 Built for Life 106 Simple Complexity: Emergent Behavior 130 part two: Remote Sensing A Chemical Universe 155 Sound Ideas 178 viii contents Animal Sonar 203 Seeing the Light 236 Th ere and Back Again: Animal Navigation 263 Talk to the Animals 289 Epilogue 313 Notes 317 Further Reading 347 References 351 Acknowledgments 371 Index 373 Engineering Animals
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