epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Leigh Calvez [Calvez, Leigh]

Now we in the Pacific Northwest are faced with a complicated dilemma. Some biologists have proposed the systematic removal of the invasive Barred Owl from the land we have set ...

epub |eng | | Author:Hemanta Mishra & Jim Ottaway

12 SCIENCE AND SHAMANISM “Drinking from one end and pissing from the other,” I muttered. “Farting and shitting in between.” I wanted to relieve the tension. We had a long, ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Stephen J. O'Brien

Ten The Way We Were Nothing in biology makes sense except in light of evolution. —THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY The Old Testament, as interpreted by the esteemed seventeenth-century archbishop James Ussher, tells ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-22 | Author:Ashley Dawson

Rewilding also promises to rework environmental space. Looking forward to the calamitous impact of climate change, biologists have proposed radical new doctrines with the ominous-sounding names assisted colonization and ecological ...

epub |eng | 2015-07-22 | Author:M. R. O'Connor

6 Metaphysical Rhinos Ceratotherium simum cottoni In early 2008, stem cell researcher Jeanne Loring decided to take her staff on a field trip to the San Diego Zoo. Loring had ...

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

In the morning, the nifty little refrigerator is broken, doubtless the result of Andreas’s mad cannon-ride run down off the red mountain, so Dennis and I are forced to eat ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-01 | Author:Ralph Steadman

Giant Ibis Thaumatibis gigantea Another once-abundant bird, the Giant Ibis, of which there are only about 230 mature individuals remaining, is found in northern Cambodia, southern Laos, and there has ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-22 | Author:Sooyong Park

CHAPTER 17 By the Skin of Tiger Teeth BLOODY MARY HAD not left. The footsteps moved away and suddenly stopped. She lay quietly hidden somewhere, spying on me. She would ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-11 | Author:Jon Mooallem

PART THREE BIRDS 11. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS By the late 1940s, there were only about thirty whooping cranes left on Earth, and, for better or worse, America was about to level ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Don E. Wilson [Wilson, Don E.]

Naked-Backed Bats The family Mormoopidae has only two genera and is limited to the New World (see photo E, Mormoops megalophylla, in the gallery). One genus, Pteronotus, has several species, ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1991-12-14 | Author:Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine

Blind Panic Assumptions are the things you don't know you're making, which is why it is so disorienting the first time you take the plug out of a wash basin ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | 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, ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-15 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

"We hailed them and told them to liold off so we could get clear of the Pond. George, he yelled down to we they had orders for to finish off ...