epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Julian P. Hume & Michael Walters [Hume, Julian P. & Walters, Michael]

Martinique House Wren Troglodytes aedon martinicensis (Sclater) Thryothorus martinicensis Sclater 1866, p. 321 (Martinique) Specimens Specimens are in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Chicago; New York; and Tring. Status Probably extinct, the last ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-02 | Author:Kate Davies

Choosing to Feel Grateful It can be difficult to feel grateful when there’s so much bad news. But gratitude is like intrinsic hope—it does not depend on our external circumstances ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Peter Kobel

The mid- to late 1970s made for heady times in the rock scene in New York City. NYU students could slam shut their textbooks and walk a few blocks to ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-04 | Author:Lyanda Haupt

The Hidden Blue Grouse It is difficult to know what to think of grouse. They have large eyes spaced widely on heads that are too small for their fat, oval ...

epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Hennessy

Figure 6.1 José Villa, one of the first two guards of the Galápagos National Park Service, marks a tortoise on Pinzón, late 1960s. Photo taken by Miguel Castro. (Used with ...

epub |eng | | Author:Helen Pilcher

CHAPTER SEVEN Sea-Monkeys and Pizzly Bears In the mid-1960s, an eye-catching advert began to appear in American comic books. It featured a nuclear family of grinning aliens with pronged heads ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...

epub |eng | 2003-10-25 | Author:Meredith, Martin

Elephant Destiny slaughter, they faced a new formidable threat: economic development. Elephant herds were accustomed to roaming freely in search of food and water. For centuries they had used seasonal ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-15 | Author:Christopher Ketcham

* * * — Years ago, during the spring migration of the bison, I camped next to the Madison River at the western edge of Yellowstone National Park. One morning ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-04 | Author:Thor Hanson [Hanson, Thor]

13 Friends I think I could turn and live with animals…. They do not sweat and whine about their condition . . . Not one is respectable or unhappy over ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:Christopher Ketcham

* * * — Years ago, during the spring migration of the bison, I camped next to the Madison River at the western edge of Yellowstone National Park. One morning ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-12 | Author:Michael Punke [Michael Punke]

Harry Yount: In 1880, Yellowstone’s first game warden reported that his job could “not be done by any one man, and I would respectfully urge for the purpose the appointment ...

epub |eng | 1993-05-03 | Author:George B. Schaller [Schaller, George B.]

Provinces and autonomous regions of China mentioned in text In 1958, Mao Zedong demanded a Great Leap Forward in socialist production, his second error. Peasants across the country were urged ...

epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Brooke Bessesen

Social friction, which had been coiling like a viper, struck with ferocity on the evening of March 8, 2017. A La Voz article wrote (translated), “Last night virtually all the ...

epub |eng | 2015-05-20 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

THE SMITHIAN/SPATHIAN EXTINCTION The Smithian and Spathian are the third and fourth stages of the Early Triassic respectively, and their boundary, around 2 million years after the Permo-Triassic boundary, marks ...