Revised edition of: Animal physiology / Richard W. Hill, Michigan State University, Gordon A. Wyse, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Margaret Anderson, Smith College. Fourth edition. [2016].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Animals and environments : function on the ecological stage -- Molecules and cells in animal physiology -- Genomics, proteomics, and related approaches to physiology -- Physiological development and epigenetics -- Transport of solutes and water -- 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 -- Neurons -- Synapses -- Sensory processes -- Nervous system organization and biological clocks -- Endocrine and neuroendocrine physiology -- Reproduction -- Integrating systems at work : animal navigation -- Control of movement : the motor bases of animal behavior -- Muscle -- Movement and muscle at work : plasticity in response to use and disuse -- 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 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.

"Comprehensive, contemporary, and engaging, Animal Physiology provides evolutionary and ecological context to help students make connections across all levels of physiological scale"--