Animals
epub |eng | 1967-12-31 | Author:Niko Tinbergen [Tinbergen, Niko]

CHAPTER EIGHT DEFENCE BY COLOUR While we were busy with our studies of camouflage, we were of course, aware of the fact that many animals are not camouflaged at all, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Maggie Ryan Sandford & Rodica Prato

Skull of Felis catus. From specimen collector Hubert Ludwig’s book Schul-Naturgeschichte (School of Natural History), 1891. Under it all, though, cat eyes and human eyes have a lot in common. ...
( Category: Wildlife February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jana Harris

TWELVE Colette’s hind legs straightened completely. In fact, they straightened too much and now resembled fence posts where they were supposed to sweep up in little crescents at the hock. ...
( Category: Wildlife February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-21 | Author:Christine Hemp

Chapter 22. Body Memory MY INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS WITH BUDDY addressed things important to us both. I needed connection, and he needed clarity. To get that connection, I found that the ...
( Category: Neurology February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Stephen Moss [Moss, Stephen]

Ants Among the world’s most advanced and successful social insects, living in vast, highly organized colonies with one or more queens at the center, surrounded by willing workers. One of ...
( Category: Natural History February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Penelope Smith

A somewhat similar case involved a horse named Maxwell. His people had a problem with his riding stiffly and his resistance to turning, particularly to the left. He told me ...
( Category: ESP February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-15 | Author:David Cruise & Alison Griffiths

-TEN - Out of Cold Storage VELMA’S SPIRITS LIFTED dramatically in the months that Marguerite Henry rummaged around in the Bronn family history and Velma’s early memories. Henry’s probing functioned ...
( Category: Horses February 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-14 | Author:Matthew T. Carrano & Kirk R. Johnson & Jay Matternes

Strangely Spiked Skulls Syndoceras was a type of protoceratid, a now-extinct group of hoofed mammals with bony horns like those of today’s pronghorn and cattle. The forked nose horn was ...
( Category: Plants & Animals February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:Mark Goldstein

Chapter 15 GIGI The frenzy and fanfare around celebrity births have become commonplace these days, with social media and even traditional broadcasts announcing the sight of “baby bumps” and then ...
( Category: Animal Rights February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Bob Goldsack

The fire engine ride was very popular with youngsters as it drove around the upper concourse in 1964. The fire engine was built from an old Crosley automobile. (Courtesy Lucielle ...
( Category: Zoology February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ceiridwen Terrill

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Noah’s Ark They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. —Clint Eastwood Thelma and Argos slept in Crystal’s spare bedroom with Ryan and ...
( Category: Dogs & Wolves February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-15 | Author:David B Weishampel & Coralia-Maria Jianu [Weishampel, David B & Jianu, Coralia-Maria]

CONTINGENCY AND THE TRANSYLVANIAN DINOSAURS If anywhere in the world should reveal the power of contingency, it would be somewhere like Transylvania in the Cretaceous, where historical possibilities and pathways ...
( Category: Fossils February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:William J Long [Long, William J]

OF all the wild birds that still haunt our remaining solitudes, the ruffed grouse—the pa'tridge of our younger days—is perhaps the wildest, the most alert, the most suggestive of the ...
( Category: Wildlife February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Bruce L. Smith

Mountain goat 100,000 Bighorn sheep 67,000 Dall and Stone sheep 115,000 Musk-ox 140,000 Moose 975,000 Elk 1,000,000 Pronghorn antelope 1,000,000 Caribou 4,000,000 Black-tailed and mule deer 7,000,000 White-tailed deer 26,000,000 ...
( Category: Wildlife February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-28 | Author:Gina Rippon [Rippon, Gina]

Not those bloody monkeys again Newborns can’t reach or grasp for anything. They are hostage to the toys that their caregivers give them. These caregivers will probably have their own ...
( Category: Neurology February 15,2020 )