Biological Sciences
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Mabey

In December 1990 Daniel L. McKinley, an emeritus professor of biology from New York, wrote to Charles Nelson about some tipitiwitchet evidence he’d unearthed while working on a biography of ...
( Category: Plants May 11,2016 )
epub, azw |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Jessica Riskin [Riskin, Jessica]

9 Outside In Cyberneticists reenacted and so updated the old struggle between the intelligent-egg and the dead-sparrow models of the science of living beings. Cybernetics was a new field of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Dan Eatherley

Raymond Ditmars extracts venom from a cottonmouth pitviper (Agkistrodon piscivorus), c. 1935. “It’s part of my job,” he once said. (© Wildlife Conservation Society) ONE Sunday afternoon in July 1893 ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-24 | Author:Donald R. Prothero

SEE IT FOR YOURSELF! The skeleton of Kronosaurus queenslandicus is still the centerpiece of the main hall of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Australia, ...
( Category: Dinosaurs May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Terrible Toads and a Bushel of Birds By the time we had been in the Chaco two months, our collection had reached such proportions that it took us all our ...
( Category: Zoology May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-05-05 | Author:J. R. McNeill

TABLE 8.1 GLOBAL FISH CATCH, 1800–1996 The aggregate figures conceal a persistent pattern. Numerous important fisheries collapsed in the twentieth century, generally the most valuable ones. The catch of the ...
( Category: Ecology May 6,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-05-05 | Author:Linda Chalker-Scott

Plant cells contain dissolved substances that keep cellular water from freezing, encouraging ice to form between the cells instead. How do evergreen leaves combat this frozen doom? You know the ...
( Category: Botany May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Mary Taylor Young

Legal Status: Nongame. Prairie Lizard/Fence Lizard Sceloporus consobrinus Field ID: Gray and brown, spiny-scaled lizard. Pale stripes on sides of back and black bars along the stripes. Color and patterns ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Appleby

Hostility Levels of hostility within the related groups are low but intrusion by unrelated individuals poses a potential risk to offspring, increases the demand on essential resources and is poorly ...
( Category: Animal Psychology May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-05 | Author:Donald Kroodsma

Daytime caroling songs Dawn song with carols and hissellys EASTERN BLUEBIRD (Sialia sialis) Summer Year-round Winter HABITAT: Open areas with sparse ground vegetation, often using nest boxes: farmlands, orchards, clear-cuts, ...
( Category: Ornithology May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-04 | Author:Charlie Cochet [Cochet, Charlie]

TODAY WAS definitely not a day to be sore. From the moment they reached Sparta, Sparks had them training. There had been sparring, cardio, weight lifting, jiujitsu, and now more ...
( Category: Adventure May 4,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-24 | Author:Frans de Waal [de Waal, Frans]

Triadic Awareness Siamangs—large black members of the gibbon family—swing high up in the tallest trees of the Asian jungle. Every morning, the male and female burst into spectacular duets. Their ...
( Category: Fauna May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Marteel-Parrish, Anne E.; Abraham, Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM

Aspartame was discovered by accident by Jim Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle in 1965. Jim Schlatter was working on drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers when he spilled ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Jennifer L. Verdolin

YOU’RE MINE . . . ALL MINE Moving away from harassment and force, we still are in the land of less-than-desirable male mating strategies, at least from the perspective of ...
( Category: Sexuality May 1,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:J. M. Coetzee

Marjorie Garber “We are here tonight,” he informed the audience, “to listen to a lecture.” Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim THE TANNER LECTURES sponsored by the Princeton University Center for Human ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication April 30,2016 )