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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-12 | Author:Anthes, Emily [Anthes, Emily]

7. Robo Revolution In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an unusual field agent: a cat. In an hour-long procedure, a veterinary surgeon transformed the furry feline into an ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Alexandra Horowitz

Dogs' easy mastery of new procedures and concepts presumably stops prior to grasping what a quark is. What they learn is neither academic nor scholastic. Still, most of what we ...

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 ...

mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Temple Grandin; Catherine Johnson

1. Communicate your results outside the research community. It's important to publish your research in peer-reviewed journals so knowledge doesn't get lost. But just publishing in journals isn't enough. Researchers ...

mobi |eng | 2004-02-15 | Author:Ron Chernow

CHAPTER 21 The Enthusiast When Rockefeller receded from the business world in the mid-1890s, the average American was earning less than ten dollars per week. Rockefeller’s average income—a stupefying $10 ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Thomas Suddendorf [Suddendorf, Thomas]

NINE Right and Wrong Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. —CHARLES DARWIN I GREW UP ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Andrew E. Derocher

A large black nose, some teeth, and a blur of white will be the last thing that thousands of seals see. In the Canadian Arctic, polar bears explored up to ...

epub |eng | 2013-08-05 | Author:Daniel Loxton

Figure 5.24 The creature reported by officers of the HMS Daedalus in 1848. The Daedalus case became an enduring part of the cryptozoological canon after it attracted a detailed public ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-09 | Author:Shuker, Karl P.N. [Shuker, Karl P.N.]

The discovery of Bennett’s cassowary was followed by the documentation of other, similarly undersized, wattle-less types, initially treated as distinct species. These included Westermann’s cassowary C. westermanni (Jobi Island) and ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-24 | Author:Gail Damerow

Indian Game \ British term for the Cornish breed. industrial \ See: breed INCUBATOR BASICS Incubators come in a broad range of sizes from small ones that hold only three ...