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Mammal Societies by Clutton-Brock Tim;
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:Clutton-Brock, Tim;

Chapter 11 Association between males 11.1 Introduction On a moonlit night on the Serengeti plains, lions are active. As grazing herds of wildebeest shift uneasily, two young males from a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
Green Water Dragons by Philippe De Vosjoli
epub |eng | 1992-03-14 | Author:Philippe De Vosjoli

A melanistic (left) and a normal colored (right) juvenile water dragon meet nose to nose on a branch. A sailfin lizard (a related species) breaks out of its shell. Egg ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care March 14,2018 )
An Indomitable Beast by Alan Rabinowitz
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Alan Rabinowitz

As a graduate student memorizing the taxonomic nomenclature of mammal families, genera, and species, I was told by my instructors not to worry about subspecies classifications because they were not ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Tim Birkhead [Birkhead, Tim]

In 1989, Jack Dumbacher, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, made a remarkable discovery: he found the world’s first distasteful bird. Jack was studying Raggiana birds of paradise ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
Dogs Who Serve by Lisa Rogak
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Lisa Rogak

For Spc. Aerick Gomez, a signal support specialist with the 313th Joint Movement Control Battalion, it didn’t take long for him to be convinced of Timmy’s therapeutic talents. “Seeing Timmy ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Fast into the Night by Debbie Clarke Moderow
epub |eng | | Author:Debbie Clarke Moderow

In the end Mark completes Copper Basin, but it isn’t pretty. He stops for ten minutes at Tolsona, twenty miles from the finish, to go inside and fix a failing ...
( Category: Specific Groups March 14,2018 )
Giants of the Lost World by Donald R. Prothero
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Donald R. Prothero [Prothero, Donald R.]

Figure 6.2. Reconstruction of the gigantic Paleocene Colombian turtle Carbonemys (courtesy @User: AuntSpray/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA 3.0). Figure 6.3. The shell of the largest turtle that ever lived, Stupendemys, from Venezuela (courtesy ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life by Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher [Durrani, Matin]

Out to bat Night-time in the parklands of an English stately home. A giant London plane tree towers above the sweeping lawns and the moonlight reflects silver from a river. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Critical Critters by Ralph Steadman
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Lord Howe Island Stick Insect Dryococelus australis The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect was believed to have become extinct sometime around 1920 and this was due to the introduction of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion by Matthieu Ricard
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Matthieu Ricard [Ricard, Matthieu]

We should also consider here an argument of Peter Singer’s, the origin of which is to be found in Jeremy Bentham. This is a demonstration that has often been misinterpreted, ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 14,2018 )
The Book of Forest & Thicket by John Eastman
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:John Eastman

Another bark and twig feeder, often settling itself high in the tree for days on end, is the porcupine. Foliage sprays and twig tips littering the snow beneath a tree ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping Geese by Kirsten Lie-Nielsen
azw3 |eng | 2017-09-25 | Author:Kirsten Lie-Nielsen [Lie-Nielsen, Kirsten]

Top left: Author holding two goslings. Bottom left: Spending plenty of time with young goslings will ensure they imprint. Top right: This young African gosling has plenty of attitude. Bottom ...
( Category: Sustainable Living March 14,2018 )
Becoming Nature by Tamarack Song
epub |eng | 2016-03-08 | Author:Tamarack Song

Wolf Tag Years ago in my youth I was privileged to live with a pack of semi-domesticated Wolves. Simbut, which means Silver Wolf in Mohican, was the alpha female. We ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality March 14,2018 )
Yellowstone and the Smithsonian by Diane Smith
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Diane Smith

CHAPTER 7 The Greatest Game Preserve in the Country City of Refuge or a National Zoological Park When the Yellowstone Park was organized it was believed that a permanent place ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
The Royal Treatment by Barbara Royal
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Royal

FINANCES AND YOUR PET DISCUSSING FINANCES IS STRESSFUL for many clients. I make a point of talking about the cost of treatments, or diagnostics. If finances are causing clients to ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )

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