Animal Migration Including Bird, Fish, Insect, Lessepsian Migration And Homing

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Animal migration is the traveling of long distances in search of a new habitat. The trigger for the migration may be local... Read more

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Animal migration is the traveling of long distances in search of a new habitat. The trigger for the migration may be local climate, local availability of food, or the season of the year. To be counted as a true migration, and not just a local dispersal or irruption, the movement of the animals should be an annual or seasonal occurrence, such as birds migrating south for the winter. In some insect species, such as the monarch butterfly, the whole migration is not carried out by one individual. Instead the butterflies mate and reproduce on the journey, and successive generations travel the next stage of the migration. This book studies animal migration including drift migration, passenger pigeon, fish stock, and homing pigeon. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. Less