Mammals
epub |eng | 2008-02-29 | Author:Hugh Warwick

And as she watched the grass, she began to notice droppings, hedgehog droppings. These are distinctive: frequently quite shiny as a result of the exoskeletons of the insects they munch ...
( Category: Mammals March 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Parfit

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE May 2004 A few days later, I came back toward the Gold River docks from Mooyah Bay in a wind-conflicted sea, in the strange light made by heavy ...
( Category: Marine Life February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walker, Brett L.; Cronon, William;

JAPAN'S WOLFERS Hokkaido's crow and wolf hunters left only traces of their activities in the form of bounty records buried deep in archives. Records from between February 1880 and June ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Kevin Davies

Last but not least, the Whitehead Institute’s Eric Lander bagged his personal favorite chromosome—17, which had been his lucky number since he became fascinated by its unique mathematical properties—and helpfully ...
( Category: Mammals February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Elizabeth Marshall Thomas [Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall]

What was the importance to the lions of the truce between them and the people, and what did the lions have to do to keep the truce? To consider the ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Maggie Ryan Sandford & Rodica Prato

Skull of Felis catus. From specimen collector Hubert Ludwig’s book Schul-Naturgeschichte (School of Natural History), 1891. Under it all, though, cat eyes and human eyes have a lot in common. ...
( Category: Wildlife February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Penelope Smith

A somewhat similar case involved a horse named Maxwell. His people had a problem with his riding stiffly and his resistance to turning, particularly to the left. He told me ...
( Category: ESP February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Bruce L. Smith

Mountain goat 100,000 Bighorn sheep 67,000 Dall and Stone sheep 115,000 Musk-ox 140,000 Moose 975,000 Elk 1,000,000 Pronghorn antelope 1,000,000 Caribou 4,000,000 Black-tailed and mule deer 7,000,000 White-tailed deer 26,000,000 ...
( Category: Wildlife February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Kelsey Oseid

TUSKING Male narwhals are sometimes observed crossing tusks with each other above the surface of the water; this behavior is known as “tusking.” In the past, this was believed to ...
( Category: Marine Life February 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Elbroch

Muskrat. Muskrats form runs between water sources and leading from burrow systems (in habitats where they do not build lodges) to feeding areas. You can also find them connecting ponds ...
( Category: Mammals February 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg [Pierotti, Raymond & Fogg, Brandy R.]

HUMANS AS WOLF’S STUDENTS Stories told by Indigenous American peoples about their relationships with wolves suggest that through much of the early stages of the evolution of human hunting practices, ...
( Category: Mammals January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Françoise Malby-Anthony

* * * I named the calf Tom in honour of my gentle chef, whose presence of mind in investigating a strange noise had saved the little one’s life. We ...
( Category: Wildlife December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-08 | Author:Roland W Kays & Don E Wilson [Kays, Roland W & Wilson, Don E]

CACTUS DEERMOUSE Peromyscus eremicus 169–218mm, 92–117mm, 18–40g Medium-sized mouse with long, soft, silky pelage and large ears. Body is pale gray washed with reddish brown above and whitish on the ...
( Category: Mammals December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Adele Brand

FOX COMMUNICATION IS rarely aimed at us, and yet we have absorbed it into our cultural arts, created mythology about it, worried about it sufficiently to create deterrents, and even ...
( Category: Mammals October 28,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-10-25 | Author:Meredith, Martin

Elephant Destiny slaughter, they faced a new formidable threat: economic development. Elephant herds were accustomed to roaming freely in search of food and water. For centuries they had used seasonal ...
( Category: Mammals October 26,2019 )