Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2024-08-10 | Author:Elizabeth Rosner

. . . Is there code-switching in the animal world? “Marine scientists have observed that the melodies that orcas and humpback whales send through the sea have been changing rapidly ...
( Category: Anatomy October 18,2024 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-02 | Author:Carol Pasternak

The monarch’s bitter taste does not deter dragonflies. The monarch’s distinctive orange and black coloring serves as a signal to potential predators, warning them of the butterfly’s unpleasant taste. Mating ...
( Category: Butterflies September 28,2024 )
epub |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Quammen, David [Quammen, David]

PROVIDE, PROVIDE The Gaia Hypothesis and Global Evolution An Englishman named J. E. Lovelock believes that he may have discovered the largest of all living creatures. This thing he has ...
( Category: Wildlife September 23,2024 )
epub |eng | 2024-09-15 | Author:Cara Giaimo & Joshua Foer [Giaimo, Cara & Foer ,Joshua]

By curving north toward the sun, the halfmens ensure that their short-lived leaves and developing flowers get as much of the winter light as possible. The sunshine also makes their ...
( Category: Wildlife September 19,2024 )
pdf | | 2016-10-25 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Biological Sciences September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-16 | Author:Switek, Brian [Switek, Brian]

Seven Dinosaur Feathers Sometimes I get a little selfish about dinosaur skeletons. As thrilled as I am that museum dinosaur exhibits are so well attended, the stampeding hordes of schoolchildren ...
( Category: Dinosaurs September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Stamets, Paul [Stamets, Paul]

A DIVERSE COMMUNITY The mushroom community is made up of different threads. There are those who relate to mushrooms as mindblowers, those who love to forage, and those who love ...
( Category: Mushrooms September 17,2024 )
epub |eng | 2022-12-06 | Author:Imbler, Sabrina [Imbler, Sabrina]

Lately I have been fixated on a butterflyfish. It lived sometime in the 1970s just south of Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. It swam in the company of ...
( Category: Marine Biology September 16,2024 )
pdf | | 2008-11-21 | Author:Unknown

( Category: Anatomy September 15,2024 )
epub |eng | 2021-11-04 | Author:Dawkins, Richard [Dawkins, Richard]

© Shutterstock. Contributor: Hand with card (Maisei Raman) CHAPTER 8 POWERED FLIGHT IN ANIMALS CHAPTER 8 POWERED FLIGHT IN ANIMALS Animal flight is more complicated and difficult to understand than ...
( Category: Ornithology September 12,2024 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-28 | Author:Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine [Grandin, Temple & Johnson, Catherine]

HANDLING FEAR AGGRESSION Not all dogs who bite are dominant. Shy biters bite people because they’re afraid, not because they are dominant. German shepherds who bite are usually shy biters. ...
( Category: Mammals September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2002-10-08 | Author:Goodall, Jane & Bekoff, Marc [Goodall, Jane & Bekoff, Marc]

INTERVENTION—OR HELPING? Often during our long-term study at Gombe, which began in 1960, we have cured, or tried to cure, sick chimpanzees and baboons. We routinely administered antibiotics when the ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys September 9,2024 )
epub |eng | 2023-08-01 | Author:Flannery, Tim [Flannery, Tim]

CHAPTER 7 The Sweating Teeth of Malta Fossilised teeth of the megalodon seem to have piqued the interest of the ancient Roman philosopher and natural historian Pliny the Elder, who ...
( Category: Dinosaurs September 9,2024 )