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Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman

After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
The Whale by Philip Hoare
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Philip Hoare

NEGRO SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1 AUGUST MDCCCXXXIV –although it faces another building, one that belies the city’s claim to manumission. Passing through the double doors with their polished brass fingerplates, I ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Hattie Ellis

How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Thomas D. Seeley

Heinrich discovered many marvelous things about temperature regulation in honeybee swarms, all of which are key to understanding how a swarm prepares to fly to its new home. First, he ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett
mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | 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: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Vaillant

Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal by Henry Nicholls
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Henry Nicholls

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )
Winter World by Heinrich Bernd
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

14 INSECTS: FROM THE DIVERSITY TO THE LIMITS It seems astounding to us that some frogs can survive months being frozen, or that a bird as small as a kinglet ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink by Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson
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 March 25,2014 )
Dark Banquet by Bill Schutt
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Bill Schutt

Besides their ability to draw off accumulating blood at surgical reattachment or transfer sites, researchers are currently exploring the possibility that leech “saliva” contains a virtual cornucopia of pharmacologically active ...
( Category: Fauna March 25,2014 )
Adam's Task by Vicki Hearne; Donald Mccaig
mobi |eng | 1986-08-12 | Author:Vicki Hearne; Donald Mccaig

One day a letter came from a British publisher asking him to do a book whose working title would be “Through the War” and whose purpose would be to once ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry March 25,2014 )
Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-03-02 | Author:Jeremy Narby

TRANSFORMERS AND TRANSFORMATION kept cropping up during this investigation. My hunch is that part of nature’s essence is to transform itself, to evolve. The beings of this world seem driven ...
( Category: Shamanism March 25,2014 )
Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-23 | Author:Hugh Raffles

Now everyone was talking. There was no doubt that the second wave was even more devastating than the first. The Agricultural Service sprayed the hatchlings, but the survivors ate the ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Lost Woods by Rachel Carson
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-18 | Author:Rachel Carson

18 [1953] The Edge of the Sea THIS PAPER, given the same title as her forthcoming book, was presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Symposium, “The ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World by Marlene Zuk
mobi |eng | 2011-07-20 | Author:Marlene Zuk

Boys Will Be Girls Will Be Boys, Naturally PEOPLE sometimes conclude from this kind of work that the damselflies, or Gillespie's spiders, or any of the other insects and their ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 25,2014 )

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