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Animal Weapons by Douglas J. Emlen
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas J. Emlen

Submarines were the ultimate “sneaks” in naval warfare. Small and invisible, they could sink even the largest of battleships. By 1914, it was clear even to the British that despite ...
( Category: Zoology March 22,2015 )
Saving Simon by Jon Katz
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Jon Katz [Katz, Jon]

Thanks for talking to me. I appreciate it. I want you to know that Simon is well and I will take good care of him. I suspect you did the ...
( Category: Mammals March 22,2015 )
This Birding Life by Stephen Moss
epub |eng | 2014-03-21 | Author:Stephen Moss

Teatime on Tobago MARCH 1998 Visiting the island of Tobago is rather like going back 30 years or so. The people are well-dressed and courteous, the beaches are unspoilt and ...
( Category: Wildlife March 22,2015 )
Rat Island by William Stolzenburg
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...
( Category: Wildlife March 21,2015 )
The Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Chapman, Marina & Barrett-Lee, Lynne [Chapman, Marina]

18 Over the following weeks, I existed in a strange sort of purgatory, suspended in a place where I felt completely alone. I was no longer one of the monkey ...
( Category: Apes & Monkeys March 21,2015 )
The Cygnus Mystery by Andrew Collins
epub |eng | 2012-01-15 | Author:Andrew Collins

CHAPTER THIRTEEN In Search of Sokar According to the eminent British Egyptologist Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857–1934), the curator of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum for thirty years ...
( Category: Fossils March 21,2015 )
Sex on Earth by Jules Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Jules Howard [Howard, Jules]

I can still see them now, weeks later, in my mind’s eye. I can even see their maggot-like movements, and the circular frame of the microscope lens around them. The ...
( Category: Zoology March 8,2015 )
Beyond Nostalgia by Winton Tom
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Winton, Tom [Winton, Tom]

"OK, you hippy pieces of shit," growled the biggest one, the one who first grabbed me inside Ungy's. He was right in my face, reeking of salami or garlic or ...
( Category: Horses March 4,2015 )
The Company of Wolves by Peter Steinhart
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-14 | Author:Peter Steinhart [Steinhart, Peter]

Things seemed to be going well. But in January 1989, at a meeting in Atlanta of the red-wolf recovery team, David Mech raised the old question of hybridization. Says Phillips, ...
( Category: Mammals March 4,2015 )
Over the Farmer's Gate by Roger Evans
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Roger Evans [Roger Evans]

ON PREVIOUS occasions I have mentioned milk prices. Well, they are finally turning the corner. We haven’t exactly found the end of the rainbow but it now seems likely that ...
( Category: Fauna March 4,2015 )
The Philosopher and the Wolf by Rowlands Mark
epub |eng | 2010-03-31 | Author:Rowlands, Mark [Rowlands, Mark]

4 The first thing the theory of the social contract shows is our peculiarly human – or, more accurately, simian – obsession with power. The theory has a glaring consequence: ...
( Category: Dogs & Wolves March 3,2015 )
River Monsters: True Stories of the Ones that Didn't Get Away by Wade Jeremy
mobi |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Wade, Jeremy [Wade, Jeremy]

CHAPTER 11 RIVER STINGRAY The tail is whipped forwards in a curve with the sting pointing to the area of body contact. The sting easily penetrates rubber boots and is ...
( Category: Fish & Sharks February 15,2015 )
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Smil Vaclav
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Smil, Vaclav [Smil, Vaclav]

Twenty Millennia of Phytomass Change Given the lasting uncertainties in quantifying the aboveground phytomass in today’s ecosystems (leaving aside even greater errors in estimating the belowground biomass and its productivity), ...
( Category: Environmental February 13,2015 )
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Bee Health by Richard E. Bonney & Malcolm T. Sanford
mobi |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Richard E. Bonney & Malcolm T. Sanford

The Apicultural Calendar Beekeeper and bee activities follow what is called the apicultural calendar, usually divided into “active” and “inactive” times for the colony. In temperate lands, the four seasons ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders February 12,2015 )
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees by Richard E. Bonney
epub |eng | 2010-02-11 | Author:Richard E. Bonney

After swarming, the population may slowly decline as the intensity of conditions abates. At the end of this yearly cycle, the bees achieve a steady state of population for maintenance, ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders February 12,2015 )

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