Animals
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Brian Switek [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 May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff

At times dolphins may leap just for fun … and sometimes leaps become part of a game of keep-away or tag. Spinner dolphins are named for their spinning leaps. Not ...
( Category: Marine Life May 13,2016 )
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 | 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, 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 | 2014-08-20 | Author:Jack Ballard

The physical traits of wild hoofed mammals are remarkably adapted to the habitats in which they live, including specialized abilities that help them escape predators. Pronghorn are exceptionally fleet of ...
( Category: Wildlife April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Dave Goulson [Goulson, Dave]

CHAPTER ELEVEN Bee Enemies A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders April 23,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell

Chapter 12 The Woodcock Winter As the summer drew to a close I found myself, to my delight, once more without a tutor. Mother had discovered that, as she so ...
( Category: Wildlife April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-21 | Author:Paula Wild [Wild, Paula]

Clarence Hall, shown here with his wife and hounds, had been tracking cougars for thirty years when he was attacked by one in 2000. He used a tip from a ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Darrin Lunde

Theodore Roosevelt (left) on the cowcatcher of a train used by the Smithsonian African Expedition in Kenya. R. J. Cuninghame (center) was Roosevelt’s professional hunting guide, and Dr. Edgar Mearns ...
( Category: Wildlife April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-15 | Author:American Museum of Natural History

The Xerces Blue (Glaucopsyche xerces) These large organizations work with smaller organizations at a local level to implement conservation initiatives. Habitat protection is critically important in maintaining Lepidoptera populations. Habitat ...
( Category: Butterflies April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis

In other words, we’re all in this together: parrots, houseflies, killer whales, spiders, hippos, cassowaries, corals, crabs, dugongs, dingos, flamingos, anacondas, ants, bees, beagles, beetles, beavers, leopards, iguanas, ducks, platypuses, ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks April 11,2016 )