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Poetry and Animals by Onno Oerlemans
epub |eng | | Author:Onno Oerlemans

One have I marked, the happiest guest In all this covert of the blest: Hail to Thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion, Thou, Linnet! In ...
( Category: History & Criticism March 20,2018 )
Last chance to see by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas]

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 19,2018 )
Swimming by Scott Bay
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:Scott Bay [Scott Bay]

Score Your Success 1 point: You can go 10 yards. 3 points: You can go 25 yards. 5 points: You can go 25 yards in 15 or more kicks. 7 ...
( Category: Water Sports March 19,2018 )
The Essential Ian McHarg by Ian L. McHarg
epub |eng | 2013-02-01 | Author:Ian L. McHarg [McHarg, Ian L.]

Significant Physiographic Phenomena and Their Roles The major physiographic divisions reveal the principal roles in the water regimen and should constitute an important generalized basis for identification of natural processes ...
( Category: Architecture March 18,2018 )
Climate and the Oceans by Vallis Geoffrey K.; Vallis Geoffrey K. K.;
epub |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Vallis, Geoffrey K.; Vallis, Geoffrey K. K.;

Figure 5.3. Upper panel: Heat transport in the total atmosphere-ocean system (solid line), in the ocean (dashed line), and in the atmosphere (dotted line). Lower panel: Oceanic heat transport, subdivided ...
( Category: Earth Sciences March 18,2018 )
The Gnu's World by Estes Richard D.;
epub |eng | | Author:Estes, Richard D.;

Top-Down and Bottom-Up Population Control Species whose abundance is limited by predation are said to be under top-down control. Probably most of the small and cover-dependent ungulates fall into this ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 18,2018 )
A Walk In The Woods by Bill Bryson
epub |eng | | Author:Bill Bryson [Bryson, Bill]

Chapter 12 I’d expected Katz to be insufferable in the morning, but in fact he was surprisingly gracious. He called me for coffee and when I emerged, feeling wretched and ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 18,2018 )
The Nature of Southeast Alaska by Richard Carstensen
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Carstensen

Murrelet chick, at twenty-three days old, well camouflaged in its ground nest. Same chick at thirty-five days, just before fledging, in bolder black-and-white ocean colors. Adult female rufous. Tail-fanning is ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )
Frogs of Southern Africa by Louis du Preez ; Vincent Carruthers
epub |eng | 2017-10-10 | Author:Louis du Preez ; Vincent Carruthers

( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )
The Age of the Horse by Susanna Forrest
epub |eng | 2016-03-18 | Author:Susanna Forrest [Forrest, Susanna]

II Horseflesh is dark, with more blood to it than beef or mutton, and, as prehistoric hunters knew and the Botai found when they became horsekeepers, is well supplied with ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 18,2018 )
Inside Animal Hearts and Minds by Belinda Recio
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Belinda Recio

Kanzi In the early 1980s psychologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh started working with bonobos (also known as pygmy chimpanzees). Savage-Rumbaugh addressed many of Terrance’s concerns by using lexigrams—visual symbols that represent words—rather ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 18,2018 )
Crabgrass Crucible by Christopher C. Sellers
epub |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Christopher C. Sellers

Nearby Nature as Privilege and Peril The place where the Lillards lived for several decades after the war, a canyon known as Beverly Glen, lay in the foothills of the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )
Emerald Labyrinth by Eli Greenbaum
epub |eng | | Author:Eli Greenbaum

Local people at a market stop to stare at the author as he takes this photograph in the foothills of the western Ruwenzori Mountains, which are visible in the right ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )
The Great Apes by Chris Herzfeld
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Chris Herzfeld [Herzfeld, Chris]

Rajah the orangutan learned to ride a tricycle in three lessons. (From William T. Hornaday, The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals, 1922) Another orangutan, Dohong, developed faculties of invention ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 18,2018 )
Birds of Java, Sumatra and Bali by Tony Tilford
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Tony Tilford

This dark-looking kingfisher has adapted well to a diet of insects and terrestrial prey, and is not reliant on fishing for its survival. It can often be seen on an ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )

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