NEW book CICADAS OF THAILAND V.1 + CD (40 audio tracks)

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First time ever published in English language with explicit and comprehensive classification and description of Thai Cicadas! This book is a result of many years of dedicated work. It is also the first book ever about Thai Cicadas, perhaps even about any Cicadas in the world! Cicadas of Thailand, Vol. 1 + 1 audio CD with Cicadas' sounds by Michel Boulard " This first volume work offers and introduction to the exceptional and still little know world of cicadas that is both visual, by means of photographs and drawings accompanied by the text, and aural with the inclusion of a compact disc. The reader is guided through this magical world by a specialist in cicadas by profession and a wildlife photographer by passion... First, however, a clear, in-depth, and rigorous exposition of the nature of cicadas is offered... sounds they produce ... are neither "songs" nor stridulations. On the WWW and sometimes elsew the treatment of cicadas is disastrous: very often, any old rubbish will do... " Quotes from Introduction to this book by author himself.Very unique and rare book of practically the only existing fully detailed description of Cicadas species in Thailand in Englsih language. this book is newly printed and not available yet on international market !!! Author of this book Michel Boulard is Director of the Laboratory of Entomology at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne) and Head of the Department of Natural History in the Paris National Museum.Softbound (paperback), dimentions 150 x210 mm. Published in January 2007 ISBN 9789744800800This book is the first of two volumes on Thai cicadas, the most fascinating and also least known representatives of a family of sonorous insects. Cicadas neither sing, nor stridulate, but tymbolize. The volume reveals the existence and the double life, larval and imaginal, of cicadas encountered during six years of research in Thailand's sub-mountainous forests. The body of the text includes two chapters discussing general characteristics, acoustic and procreative ethnology, and exceptional or enigmatic aspects and behaviour. The text in enriched by drawings and photographs, mostly of living insects. This book is not just another guide with check-list to identify species in your collection - it is an amazing and fantastic work equal only to encyclopedic knowledge! First Part "Cicadas: Definitions and Characterictics" of this book explains following subjects: 1.1 Taxonomic Definition 1.2 Characteristics and Morphological Diversity 1.2.1 Size and Overall Conformation 1.2.2 Layout of Coloration and Habitus 1.3 Biological Features 1.3.1 How do Cicadas feed? 1.3.2 The Double life of Cicadas 1.3.3 Egg Hatching: The First birth 1.3.4 Morphological Characteristics of the Larvae 1.3.5 Behavior of Larvae 1.3.6 Imago Hatching: The Second birth 1.3.6.1 The Cicadan Pseudo- metamorphosis 1.3.6.2 Imagination: Birth through the Thorax by natural "Cesarian" 1.3.7 Special Morpho-anatomical characteristics of the adults 1.3.7.1 Visual Capability 1.3.7.2 Phonogenous Capabilities 1.3.7.2.1 Tymbalic Organ and the name of its sound production 1.3.7.2.2 Protective accessories of the Tymbalic Organ and their Morphological derivatives 1.3.7.3 Auditory capability 1.4 Fundamental role and Enviromental impact of the Tymbalizations Second Part "Thailand's Amazing Cicadas" among other thins mentions: - How cicadas produce sound and all about it;- Butterfky Cicadas and Bird Cicadas;- Territorial claims;- Cicadas' Homoseuality and Cheating death;and some other... read more

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