Table of Contents

1 Nervous System.- 2 Sense Organs.- The Avian Eye and Vision.- The Avian Ear and Hearing.- The Chemical Senses in Birds.- 3 Muscle.- 4 Immunophysiology.- 5 Body Fluids: Blood.- Blood Coagulation.- 6 Heart and Circulation: Anatomy, Hemodynamics, Blood Pressure, Blood Flow.- 7 Heart: Contraction, Conduction, and Electrocardiography.- 8 Respiration.- 9 Regulation of Body Temperature.- 10 Energy Metabolism.- 11 Alimentary Canal: Anatomy, Regulation of Feeding, and Motility.- 12 Alimentary Canal: Secretion and Digestion, Special Digestive Functions, and Absorption.- 13 Carbohydrate Metabolism.- 14 Protein Metabolism.- 15 Lipid Metabolism.- 16 Kidneys, Extrarenal Salt Excretion, and Urine.- 17 Pituitary Gland.- 18 Reproduction in the Female.- 19 Reproduction in the Male.- 20 Thyroids.- 21 Parathyroids and Ultimobranchial Glands.- 22 Adrenals.- 23 Pancreas and Pineal.- Pancreas.- Pineal.

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