Nature & Ecology
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Sandi Doughton [Doughton, Sandi]

Nisqually was Carol Davis’s most serene seismic experience. From the chairlift at Crystal Mountain ski area, she noticed something odd about the treetops. “They were dancing, waving back and forth,” ...
( Category: Seismology May 27,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

V Eawl-leet – north Lancashire noun, variant pronunciation of owl-light, meaning ‘twilight, dusk’. Late in the afternoon, as dark was falling, Richard and I left the cottage and walked back ...
( Category: Historic May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:J. A. Mills [Mills, J. A.]

Tiger farming has proven to be a divisive issue and one that has distracted many in the conservation community from the common goal of saving wild tigers. . . . ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Laurel Braitman [Braitman, Laurel]

Early Adopters in the Cuckoo’s Nest One of the first nonhumans to be given psychopharmaceuticals not as a test subject but as a patient was a gorilla named Willie B. ...
( Category: Animal Psychology May 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-22 | Author:John M. Marzluff [Marzluff, John M.]

Evolutionary responses to urbanization are not the sole province of birds and mammals. Insects and amphibians also evolve strategies to urban life. Color changes in response to urban pollution are ...
( Category: Wildlife May 25,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Sy Montgomery [Montgomery, Sy]

When I return to the aquarium, I find the last fish have been evacuated from the GOT. Aquarium engineers pulled the plug on the 200,000-gallon tank at 10 a.m., October ...
( Category: Marine Life May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Deborah Cramer [Cramer, Deborah]

Ten DOES LOSING ONE MORE BIRD MATTER? The knot ghost trail from Texas up through the Great Plains, once populated but now rarely used and fading from memory, is disquieting. ...
( Category: Invertebrates May 25,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard A. Bradley

Calymmaria persica (Hentz, 1847) Plate 33 IDENTIFICATION This spider is pale yellow with dark brown or black markings. The cephalothorax has a thin black rim as well as black spots ...
( Category: Entomology May 23,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-04 | Author:John Weldon

Heavenly Consensus? In addition, a number of leading Christians have concluded that pets will be or are likely to be in Heaven including Billy Graham, W. A. Criswell, J. Vernon ...
( Category: Fauna May 15,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan

LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...
( Category: Oceanography May 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-02 | Author:Jane Goodall & Thane Maynard & Gail Hudson

Northern Bald Ibis or Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) In February 2008, I met Rubio, one of thirty-two northern bald ibis or “waldrapp” that live at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Grunau, ...
( Category: Wildlife May 9,2015 )
epub |eng, eng | 2014-10-03 | Author:William J. Kelly

Chapter 12: Tweets for the Wheezy Who exactly did these Americans think they were—an imperial truth patrol, meddlers of the Zuckerberg age? In summer 2009, China’s government was seething at ...
( Category: Asian May 6,2015 )
epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-03-23 | Author:Thor Hanson [Hanson, Thor]

FIGURE 9.2.Chili pepper (Capsicum sp.). The thousands of varieties of domestic chili peppers descend from four species native to South America. In the wild, their pungency repels seed-killing fungi as ...
( Category: Trees April 26,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1968-08-20 | Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, Edward]

The majority of living things retreat before the stunning glare and heat of midday. A snake or lizard exposed to the noon sun for more than ten minutes would die; ...
( Category: Deserts April 24,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1966-12-31 | Author:Leopold, Aldo; Charles W. Schwartz [Leopold, Aldo; Charles W. Schwartz]

The sign says, ‘You are entering the Green River Soil Conservation District.’ In smaller type is a list of who is cooperating; the letters are too small to be read ...
( Category: Conservation April 23,2015 )