economic zoology

Text, illustrations and photographs show Minecraft fans how the game's critters compare to the real-life animals they know, while also encouraging readers to explore computer programming as a way to create Minecraft mods.

Presents nearly three hundred alphabetized, cross-referenced articles on animal biology, ecology, and behavior, as well as interactions between animals and humans, including biographical entries and providing color photos, informative sidebars, word definitions in page margins, and bibliographies.

Explores how and why plants and animals enter ecosystems to which they are not native, as well as the consequences of these invasions for other animals, plants, and humans.

Marine scientist Ellen Prager discusses a range of the unique creatures that live in the world's oceans, including arrow worms, lobsters, octopuses, the sea cucumber, the hagfish, and others, and describing the ways these creatures interact as predators, as prey, and while mating.

Explores how and why plants and animals enter ecosystems to which they are not native, as well as the consequences of these invasions for other animals, plants, and humans.