Animals
epub |eng | | Author:William Crain

6 Resilience When the real estate agent initially showed us our farm, we heard gunshots in the background. “Yes, there is hunting nearby,” she told us. “I don't like to ...
( Category: Animals February 2,2016 )
epub | | | Author:Mark Nolting

Leopards are known for their climbing skills and spend much of their days lounging on tree branches There are 120 tribes in Tanzania. Bantu languages and dialects are spoken by ...
( Category: Wildlife January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Holland, Peter [Holland, Peter]

In the true flies, Diptera, the ancestral hind-wings have been modified into tiny club-shaped ‘halteres’. These are vibrated up and down during flight, out of phase with the flapping of ...
( Category: Zoology January 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Maslin, Mark [Maslin, Mark]

19. The 2003 European heat wave killed an estimated 35,000 people 20. Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures ENSO is an oscillation between three ...
( Category: Climatology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Fredrik Sjoberg [Sjoberg, Fredrik]

Klyuchevskaya rages upward towards the sky. It’s as if she knows herself to be the world’s greatest volcano and therefore longs to reach still higher; as if she were furious ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders December 20,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-19 | Author:Tim Flannery [Flannery, Tim]

CHAPTER 9 Probing towards the Summit Prior to my arrival in Honiara I’d written to David Roe, an archaeologist working in the Solomon Islands who’d excavated a cave north of ...
( Category: Mammals December 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Flottum, Kim [Flottum, Kim]

The Unloading Area Dealing with your honey house begins before you get inside. What sort of unloading area do you have? Leaving supers stacked in the back of the truck ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders December 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:Judy Burris & Wayne Richards

* * * HOST PLANTS Carrot, dill, fennel, parsley, Queen Anne’s lace* * * * EGGS Laid on the leaves, stems, and flowers of their host plants, the Black Swallowtail’s ...
( Category: Plants & Animals December 17,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Sooyong Park

CHAPTER 17 By the Skin of Tiger Teeth BLOODY MARY HAD not left. The footsteps moved away and suddenly stopped. She lay quietly hidden somewhere, spying on me. She would ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers December 16,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Mark Derr [DERR, MARK]

The scene fades and shifts over untold thousands of years through worlds I don’t recognize, although they are of this one, until finally I see a blur— She is the ...
( Category: Dogs & Wolves December 12,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-11-09 | Author:Desmond Morris [Morris, Desmond]

Chapter Four - Exploration ALL mammals have a strong exploratory urge, but for some it is more crucial than others. It depends largely on how specialised they have become during ...
( Category: Mammals December 11,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-04-24 | Author:Wagner, David L. [Wagner, David L.]

RECOGNITION Much like preceding but paler or waxier in color with pale stripe running below spiracles on A1-A10 and black dots on abdomen lacking contrasting pale rings. Yellow abdominal tubercle ...
( Category: Entomology November 25,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Wagner, David L. & Schweitzer, Dale F. & Sullivan, J. Bolling & Reardon, Richard C. [Wagner, David L.]

Long-winged Dagger ACRONICTA LONGA RECOGNITION Bristly with mostly charcoal ground color, attractively decorated with dark, shiny warts over T2–A1, and contrastingly paler warts rearward. Dorsum of abdomen sometimes with subtle ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders November 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Childs, Laura

Many dairy goat breeders choose to bottle-feed the kids on a rigorous schedule to protect the teats of their does. This ten-pound Nubian goat has no trouble feeding from a ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry November 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-03 | Author:Susan Casey

Just after dawn the next morning I drove to Honokohau Harbor, watching the sky turn from navy pink to apricot blue to lavender gold. At the docks, we split into ...
( Category: Marine Biology November 12,2015 )