Animals
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Kelsey Oseid

TUSKING Male narwhals are sometimes observed crossing tusks with each other above the surface of the water; this behavior is known as “tusking.” In the past, this was believed to ...
( Category: Marine Life February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-21 | Author:Gary Ferguson

Today we stand without a single enduring creative or scientific tradition or institution, not art or music or writing, nor philosophy or psychology or medicine, that doesn’t still express remnants ...
( Category: Wildlife February 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-21 | Author:Julian Norton [Norton, Julian]

12 Back in Thirsk The opportunity to buy into a veterinary practice is an exciting prospect, but also a daunting one. It brings with it a huge financial burden and ...
( Category: Dogs February 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Elbroch

Muskrat. Muskrats form runs between water sources and leading from burrow systems (in habitats where they do not build lodges) to feeding areas. You can also find them connecting ponds ...
( Category: Mammals February 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Louise Callaghan [Callaghan, Louise]

29 Abu Laith THE MAN FROM YEMEN WOULD KILL HIM, MARWAN KNEW, easy as breathing. He had a patchy beard dyed bright yellow with henna, and straggly black hair on ...
( Category: Zoology January 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-06 | Author:Ingrid Newkirk & Gene Stone

SPREAD THE WORD There are many different ways to educate people about the mistreatment of animals for research and testing and the alternatives that are better for us all. The ...
( Category: Animal Rights January 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-04 | Author:Louise Callaghan

29 Abu Laith The man from Yemen would kill him, Marwan knew, easy as breathing. He had a patchy beard dyed bright yellow with henna, and straggly black hair on ...
( Category: Zoology January 24,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:David Attenborough

So feathers did not evolve initially for flight and do not define birds. The birds inherited them from feathered ancestors. And this leads to the realisation that all dinosaurs were ...
( Category: Wildlife January 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-15 | Author:Olivier Rieppel [Rieppel, Olivier]

A German Jew in America Richard Benedict Goldschmidt came, as he himself put it, “from an old German-Jewish family” (Stern, 1967:172; for a review of Goldschmidt’s life and work, see ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Norman, David; [Norman, David;]

29. Deinonychus. A reconstruction from bone to flesh. Perhaps it too had a filamentous covering? Ornithischian dinosaurs All ornithischians are thought to have been herbivorous and, rather like modern-day mammals, ...
( Category: Dinosaurs January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg [Pierotti, Raymond & Fogg, Brandy R.]

HUMANS AS WOLF’S STUDENTS Stories told by Indigenous American peoples about their relationships with wolves suggest that through much of the early stages of the evolution of human hunting practices, ...
( Category: Mammals January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Thomson, Keith; [Thomson, Keith;]

Chapter 6 Bringing fossils to life Palaeontology is rarely a glamorous saga of digging up whole skeletons or entire communities preserved intact in a nice soft rock; most often it ...
( Category: Ichthyology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-06 | Author:Onno Oerlemans

One have I marked, the happiest guest In all this covert of the blest: Hail to Thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion, Thou, Linnet! In ...
( Category: Medieval January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-02 | Author:Jean-Marc Drouin & Anne Trager

POLLINATION: A SECRET OF NATURE? The Greeks, who probably inherited such techniques from the Babylonians, already knew that when cultivating date palms, to ensure a good harvest of dates, one ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Jonny Keeling & Alexander Scott

The krill crisis Antarctic krill are shrimp-like crustaceans about six centimetres long, but what they lack in size, they more than make up for in numbers. It is estimated that ...
( Category: Plants & Animals January 19,2020 )