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Leaving the Wild by Gavin Ehringer
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Gavin Ehringer

FOURTEEN FANCY CATS Time spent with cats is never wasted. —French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette Denver County Fair’s motto is “fairly weird.” It’s an apt description. The fair is less Ringling ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
Thoreau's Animals by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Henry David Thoreau

JULY 3, 1854 The clams are so thick on the bottom at Hubbard’s bathing place that standing up to my neck in water I brought my feet together and lifted ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 14,2018 )
An Indomitable Beast by Alan Rabinowitz
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Alan Rabinowitz

As a graduate student memorizing the taxonomic nomenclature of mammal families, genera, and species, I was told by my instructors not to worry about subspecies classifications because they were not ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Winter Birds by Lars Jonsson
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Lars Jonsson

When, in connection with this book, I resumed my acquaintance with some species which are absent in the Gotland fauna, the Marsh Tit was found to be less common in ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Tim Birkhead [Birkhead, Tim]

In 1989, Jack Dumbacher, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, made a remarkable discovery: he found the world’s first distasteful bird. Jack was studying Raggiana birds of paradise ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
Dogs Who Serve by Lisa Rogak
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:Lisa Rogak

For Spc. Aerick Gomez, a signal support specialist with the 313th Joint Movement Control Battalion, it didn’t take long for him to be convinced of Timmy’s therapeutic talents. “Seeing Timmy ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Giants of the Lost World by Donald R. Prothero
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Donald R. Prothero [Prothero, Donald R.]

Figure 6.2. Reconstruction of the gigantic Paleocene Colombian turtle Carbonemys (courtesy @User: AuntSpray/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA 3.0). Figure 6.3. The shell of the largest turtle that ever lived, Stupendemys, from Venezuela (courtesy ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
The Blackbird Diaries by Karen Lloyd
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:Karen Lloyd [Lloyd, Karen]

* * * 11 Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze, Vintage, 2010. Eight The World Aglow July 1 Waiting by the slipway in Tobermory. Dr Conor Ryan of the Hebridean Whale ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life by Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-06 | Author:Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher [Durrani, Matin]

Out to bat Night-time in the parklands of an English stately home. A giant London plane tree towers above the sweeping lawns and the moonlight reflects silver from a river. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Blue Planet II by James Honeyborne & Mark Brownlow
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-19 | Author:James Honeyborne & Mark Brownlow [Honeyborne, James]

Humpbacks to the Rescue! In Monterey Bay, a colony of California sea lions is on the move. They are going hunting. An adult needs to eat 5–6 per cent of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
Critical Critters by Ralph Steadman
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Lord Howe Island Stick Insect Dryococelus australis The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect was believed to have become extinct sometime around 1920 and this was due to the introduction of ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )
A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion by Matthieu Ricard
azw3 |eng | 2016-10-04 | Author:Matthieu Ricard [Ricard, Matthieu]

We should also consider here an argument of Peter Singer’s, the origin of which is to be found in Jeremy Bentham. This is a demonstration that has often been misinterpreted, ...
( Category: Religious Studies March 14,2018 )
Wild Articulations by Timothy Neale
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Timothy Neale

This apparently contradictory formation, in which extensive conservation agreement-making occurred alongside intense division over a conservation law, is a product of the legal evolution of land rights generally. During this ...
( Category: Politics & Government March 14,2018 )
The Book of Forest & Thicket by John Eastman
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-06-11 | Author:John Eastman

Another bark and twig feeder, often settling itself high in the tree for days on end, is the porcupine. Foliage sprays and twig tips littering the snow beneath a tree ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 14,2018 )
Yellowstone and the Smithsonian by Diane Smith
epub |eng | 2017-01-09 | Author:Diane Smith

CHAPTER 7 The Greatest Game Preserve in the Country City of Refuge or a National Zoological Park When the Yellowstone Park was organized it was believed that a permanent place ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 14,2018 )

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