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In the Company of Bears by Benjamin Kilham
epub |eng | 2013-10-20 | Author:Benjamin Kilham

In our world things are much more complicated, and perceptions of fairness are a lot less exact. Today, when people think about a contract, we think about a legal document ...
( Category: Wildlife April 10,2016 )
British Sheep Breeds by Susannah Parkin
epub |eng | 2015-04-07 | Author:Susannah Parkin

North Ronaldsay is a small breed, indigenous to the Orkneys. The sheep survive on the seashore, living on a diet consisting entirely of seaweed. Native to the Orkneys, this is ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry April 8,2016 )
Saving the White Lions by Linda Tucker
epub |eng | 2013-05-06 | Author:Linda Tucker [Tucker, Linda]

MIREILLE, JASON, AND I stand on the runway of Lanseria private airport, under the tilted metal hull of a DC3 troop carrier. Mireille is hanging tightly onto my hand. The ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers April 8,2016 )
Being a Beast by Charles Foster
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Charles Foster

4 FIRE Fox The Tube is a syringe, pushing a solution of bodies and electric air into the city’s limbs. When you ooze out of Bethnal Green station, there’s a ...
( Category: Wildlife April 8,2016 )
The Great White Bear by Kieran Mulvaney
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...
( Category: Mammals April 8,2016 )
Astonishing Animals by Tim Flannery
epub |eng | | Author:Tim Flannery

Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) Great-tailed triok (Dactylopsila megalura) SOMETIMES THE environment exerts similar evolutionary pressures on different animals, so that over time they end up looking remarkably similar. A striking case ...
( Category: Zoology April 7,2016 )
The Wolverine Way by Douglas H. Chadwick
epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...
( Category: State & Local April 6,2016 )
Giving Voice to Bear by David Rockwell
epub, mobi |eng | 1991-04-02 | Author:David Rockwell

Tlingit bear hunter’s decorative face painting. Smithsonian Institution. He left and got down there and told his brothers, “This is my sister up there. She wants the head and tail.” ...
( Category: Native American Studies April 3,2016 )
Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg
epub |eng | | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...
( Category: Ornithology April 2,2016 )
A Certain Curve of Horn by John Frederick Walker
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:John Frederick Walker

THE IDEA OF anyone shooting Angola’s great endangered antelope had made Anne Dodgson livid. “I’d like to post a reward on the Internet for turning in anyone who killed a ...
( Category: Mammals April 2,2016 )
North American Amphibians by Green David M.; Weir Linda A.; Casper Gary S
epub |eng | | Author:Green, David M.; Weir, Linda A.; Casper, Gary S.

Family Plethodontidae Batrachoseps altasierrae (Jockusch, Martínez-Solano, Hansen, and Wake 2012)13 Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamander Greenhorn Mountains Slender Salamanders occur in the southern Sierra Nevada in Kern and Tulare counties, California. ...
( Category: Animals March 15,2016 )
In Pursuit of Butterflies by Matthew Oates
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Oates

19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The 1994 butterflying season was launched by a Small Tortoiseshell at Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's former residence west of Sevenoaks in Kent, with shimmering ...
( Category: Butterflies March 14,2016 )
The Wildlife of Southern Africa by Vincent Carruthers
epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Vincent Carruthers

Dimensions For small mammals, dimensions given are the body length from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail, plus the length of the tail. For large ...
( Category: Wildlife March 14,2016 )
Search for the Golden Moon Bear by Sy Montgomery
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Sy Montgomery

— 9 — The Kingdom of a Million Elephants Perhaps in the Pleistocene, the Cardamoms were an upland refuge when the lowlands were too dry,” Gary mused. “It’s hard “ ...
( Category: Bears March 14,2016 )
Ivory's Ghosts by John Frederick Walker
epub |eng | 2009-03-13 | Author:John Frederick Walker

“MOMBASA IS SLOWLY taking over the role of the world’s main ivory centre from London,” proclaimed the Mombasa Times in January of 1961. During 1960–61 virtually all East African ivory, ...
( Category: Mammals March 14,2016 )

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