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The Inner Life of Cats: The Science and Secrets of Our Mysterious Feline Companions by McNamee Thomas
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-28 | Author:McNamee, Thomas [McNamee, Thomas]

We conducted a survey of opinions about outdoor cats and their management with two contrasting stakeholder groups, cat colony caretakers (CCCs) and bird conservation professionals (BCPs) across the United States. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 19,2017 )
Cadillac Desert by REISNER; MARC
epub |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:REISNER; MARC [MARC, REISNER;]

It was a formidable argument, and it forced the Bureau of Reclamation to redirect its creative energies toward convincing the Bureau of the Budget that it wasn’t really so. In ...
( Category: Studying & Workbooks November 18,2017 )
The Oyster War by Summer Brennan
epub |eng | | Author:Summer Brennan [Brennan, Summer]

PART III THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE A scientist is never certain. —RICHARD FEYNMAN When the facts are on your side, pound the facts. When the law is on your side, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 18,2017 )
Dolphin Chronicles by Carol J. Howard
epub |eng | 1995-09-15 | Author:Carol J. Howard [Howard, Carol J.]

7 Echolocation and Eyecups The arrival of the Lags had set back both our general training and our echolocation research with Echo and Misha. By January of 1989, once all ...
( Category: Pets & Animal Care November 18,2017 )
Nature's Nether Regions by Menno Schilthuizen
epub |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Menno Schilthuizen

Resisting rape. The clockwise-coiled vagina of a female mallard duck (A) blocks entry by the counterclockwise penis (B), unless the female relaxes her vaginal muscles. Not Harpactea sadistica. When a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 18,2017 )
Walking on Lava by The Dark Mountain Project
epub |eng | 2017-06-28 | Author:The Dark Mountain Project

Small Gods MARTIN SHAW Issue 7, Spring 2015 We hear it everywhere these days. Time for a new story. Some enthusiastic sweep of narrative that becomes, overnight, the myth of ...
( Category: Social Sciences November 18,2017 )
Into Africa by Craig Packer
epub |eng | | Author:Craig Packer

THURSDAY, 14 NOVEMBER At 9:00 A.M., cousin Rasul arrives at the Mawenzi Hotel in a Toyota pickup truck. We make our way down India Street, toward Morogoro Road, to the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 17,2017 )
Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris by Christopher Kemp
epub |eng | 2012-11-17 | Author:Christopher Kemp

* * * This is how it happens. A man has managed somehow to clamber atop the whale. He sits in the morning sun, proudly astride its slippery silver flank. ...
( Category: Chemistry November 17,2017 )
Where Honeybees Thrive: Stories from the Field (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures) by Heather Swan
azw3 |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:Heather Swan [Swan, Heather]

Despite the conclusion of beekeepers across the globe, based on their field research, that neonicotinoid insecticides were likely contributing to increased bee mortality, some chemical company representatives, scientists and government ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 15,2017 )
Book of Animal Ignorance by John Mitchinson
epub |eng | 2008-09-01 | Author:John Mitchinson [Mitchinson, John]

LONG-DISTANCE KILLER Can run at 35 mph for 3 miles. Spotted hyenas are Africa’s dominant predator, responsible for a quarter of all game animals killed. Lions are their only rivals, ...
( Category: Humor November 15,2017 )
Shark by David Owen
epub |eng | 2016-05-14 | Author:David Owen

Despite being a common and easily studied shark, found in good numbers around most of Australia’s enormous coastline, as recently as March 2008 two new wobbegong species were discovered, bringing ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 15,2017 )
Tasmanian Devil by David Owen
epub |eng | 2011-07-01 | Author:David Owen

In the 1960s naturalist Jack Bauer spent long periods in the Tasmanian bush observing the devil. One night encounter took place near Damper Inn on the Port Davey track in ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 15,2017 )
Tales of the Angler's Eldorado: New Zeland by Zane Grey
azw3 |eng | 2000-10-24 | Author:Zane Grey [Grey, Zane]

ILLUSTRATING THE THREE TYPES OF BILL. LEFT—BROADBILL SWORDFISH. CENTER—BLACK MARLIN. RIGHT—STRIPED MARLIN PLATE LXXII TACKLE AND BAIT PLATE LXXIII Captain Mitchell took to drifting with live bait, and I followed ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing November 15,2017 )
Rise of the Necrofauna by Britt Wray
epub |eng | 2017-11-15 | Author:Britt Wray

PASSENGER PIGEON Passenger pigeons ate a great many things, though it was observed that the fruits of hard-mast trees were their favorite food. However, that might have just been a ...
( Category: Biological Sciences November 15,2017 )
A Gathering of Wonders by Joseph Wallace
epub |eng | 2000-11-15 | Author:Joseph Wallace

Named for early gem expert George Kunz, the Kunz Axe is a stunning reminder of Mexico’s mysterious and long-vanished Olmec peoples. One of the first important Museum dinosaur finds, Ornitholestes ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology November 15,2017 )

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