Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2016-05-19 | Author:Cheri Register

Mary Meighen and an unidentified child at the Meighen home in LeRoy, Minnesota, about 1890. Minnesota Historical Society Collections. Meighen’s promise not to marry before he could afford a respectable ...
( Category: State & Local May 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Brendan McDonough

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN One morning, we got a call to southern Arizona. A fire was burning out of control in what we call the wildland-urban interface, the point at which the ...
( Category: State & Local May 19,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Bridgewater, Alan & Bridgewater, Gill

Adult feeding on a worm ATTRACTING BIRDS The best way of attracting birds to your garden is not to fill it full of peanut feeders, fat balls, nesting boxes and ...
( Category: Gardening May 14,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-01-19 | Author:Bridgewater, Alan & Bridgewater, Gill [Bridgewater, Alan]

Adult feeding on a worm ATTRACTING BIRDS The best way of attracting birds to your garden is not to fill it full of peanut feeders, fat balls, nesting boxes and ...
( Category: Gardening May 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff

At times dolphins may leap just for fun … and sometimes leaps become part of a game of keep-away or tag. Spinner dolphins are named for their spinning leaps. Not ...
( Category: Marine Life May 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Caroline Fraser

Kenya and “the Government’s Cattle” Kenya is divided by the Great Rift Valley, a wide plain formed thirty million years ago when tectonic plates collided and then heaved apart. To ...
( Category: Environmental May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-11 | Author:Mark E. Hauber

Once the sexually dichromatic female and male have established their nesting territory, they must find a suitable mud or sand bank into which they can carve a brand new nest ...
( Category: Ornithology May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Phil Schermeister [Geographic, National]

Antelope jackrabbit Information How to Get There From Tucson, AZ, 13 miles southeast of the park, take Speedway Blvd. west to Gates Pass Rd. and go north on Kinney Rd. ...
( Category: General May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Mabey

In December 1990 Daniel L. McKinley, an emeritus professor of biology from New York, wrote to Charles Nelson about some tipitiwitchet evidence he’d unearthed while working on a biography of ...
( Category: Plants May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ellis [Ellis, Richard]

The Caribbean reef squid, Sepioteuthis sepioidea, switches on the iridescence. Photograph © John Muhilly / SeaPics.com In their 1983 study of chromatic components in cephalopods, Cloney and Brocco wrote that ...
( Category: Marine Life May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Dan Eatherley

Raymond Ditmars extracts venom from a cottonmouth pitviper (Agkistrodon piscivorus), c. 1935. “It’s part of my job,” he once said. (© Wildlife Conservation Society) ONE Sunday afternoon in July 1893 ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians May 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-29 | Author:Gerald Durrell [Durrell, Gerald]

Terrible Toads and a Bushel of Birds By the time we had been in the Chaco two months, our collection had reached such proportions that it took us all our ...
( Category: Zoology May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-05 | Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Once again, a professional philosopher refuses to engage his heart at the same time as his head, and leaves behind his imaginative faculty, the very thing that is supposed to ...
( Category: Food Science May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Douglas Brinkley

CHAPTER FIFTEEN “I HOPE THE SON-OF-A-BITCH WHO LOGGED THAT IS ROASTING IN HELL” I Not all of Franklin Roosevelt’s American adventures in 1937 were on the open sea or in ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2000-05-05 | Author:J. R. McNeill

TABLE 8.1 GLOBAL FISH CATCH, 1800–1996 The aggregate figures conceal a persistent pattern. Numerous important fisheries collapsed in the twentieth century, generally the most valuable ones. The catch of the ...
( Category: Ecology May 6,2016 )