Animals
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-03-13 | Author:Lorenz, Konrad [Lorenz, Konrad]

Curiously enough, this border-line between black and white showed considerable variations in individuals and even on both sides of one animal's body. I welcomed this, since it enabled me to ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication July 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Don E. Wilson [Wilson, Don E.]

Naked-Backed Bats The family Mormoopidae has only two genera and is limited to the New World (see photo E, Mormoops megalophylla, in the gallery). One genus, Pteronotus, has several species, ...
( Category: Mammals July 18,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-11 | Author:Jones, Richard [Jones, Richard]

Mason bee Osmia tricornis Mason wasp Odynerus antilope Modern cement mortar is quick setting, very tough and has high compressive strength, but traditional lime mortar is a more forgiving, porous ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders July 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-28 | Author:Jeremy Wade [Wade, Jeremy]

12 THE WISH YOU WERE DEAD FISH The tail is whipped forwards in a curve with the sting pointing to the area of body contact. The sting easily penetrates rubber ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks June 16,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-31 | Author:Carl Safina [Safina, Carl]

But why did dogs start looking less like wolves and more like dogs? That happened on its own, too. Turns out—and no one could have predicted this, and no one ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 15,2015 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-01-01 | Author:Desmond Morris

Chapter Four: EXPLORATION All mammals have a strong exploratory urge, but for some it is more crucial than others. It depends largely on how specialized they have become during the ...
( Category: Mammals June 14,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

Fruit and flower scarabs. All but one of these cetoniines are from East Africa; the South American rhinoceros beetle, Dynastes hercules (lower left), is shown in four views, male and ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:C. Marina Marchese

CHAPTER 10 Honeybees in Autumn: Preparing for Winter It was a lazy August afternoon during my first season of beekeeping. The kind of day where the sun seemed bear down ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders June 13,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mark W. Moffett

13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-06-21 | Author:Simon Mays [Mays, Simon]

( Category: Mammals June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

A just-hatched broad-winged hawk on a freshly inserted green fern frond. No greens are added during the month-long incubation, but after the young hatch, the greens are brought almost daily ...
( Category: Entomology June 12,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-18 | Author:Suzanne Clothier

context of our role as guardians and caretakers, persuasion may fail. In some situations, compulsion or coercion may be justified, especially if the consequences of a failure to respond or ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-02-15 | Author:Jeffrey A. Lockwood

A NEW KIND OF METAMORPHOSIS In his twenty-nine-page paper, Uvarov undertook what is called a taxonomic revision. In biology, the naming of species and their proper assignment to a particular ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson

Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
( Category: Wildlife June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:Lloyd, John & Mitchinson, John [Lloyd, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication June 11,2015 )