Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Fundamentals of physiology -- Animals and environments : function on the ecological stage -- Molecules and cells in animal physiology -- Transport of solutes and water -- Food, energy, and temperature -- Nutrition, feeding, and digestion -- Energy metabolism -- Aerobic and anaerobic forms of metabolism -- The energetics of aerobic activity -- Thermal relations -- Food, energy, and temperature at work : the lives of mammals in frigid places -- Integrating systems -- Neural and endocrine control, nervous systems, and biological clocks -- Neurons -- Synapses -- Sensory processes -- Endocrine and neuroendocrine physiology -- Reproduction -- Integrating systems at work : animal navigation -- Muscle and movement -- Muscle -- Control of movement : the motor bases of animal behavior -- Muscle and movement at work : muscle in human health and disease -- Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and internal transport -- Introduction to oxygen and carbon dioxide physiology -- External respiration : the physiology of breathing -- Transport of oxygen and carbon dioxide in body fluids (with an introduction to acid-base physiology) -- Circulation -- Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and internal transport at work : diving by marine mammals -- Water, salts, and excretion -- Water and salt physiology : introduction and mechanisms -- Water and salt physiology of animals in their environments -- Kidneys and excretion (with notes on nitrogen excretion) -- Water, salts, and excretion at work : mammals of deserts and dry savannas
