epub | | 2014-07-08 | Author:Simon Watt

‘… armed with chemical weaponry …’ PART SALAMANDER, PART sausage, this frankfurter-like amphibian is known as an olm. It lives in the cavernous pits below the ground of Slovenia, Croatia, ...

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. . . . ...

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, ...

epub | | 2009-10-06 | Author:Nevada Barr [Barr, Nevada]

A good deed actually paid off, and Anna was enjoying a mildly righteous glow of virtue's own reward. This good deed had begun as the lesser of two evils; to ...

epub | | 2003-09-02 | Author:Nevada Barr [Barr, Nevada]

Lest her sister should precede her through the pearly gates by too great a margin, Anna decided to work on her cirrhosis. Instead of a glass, she bought a bottle. ...

epub | | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nevada Barr [Barr, Nevada]

14 During the boat trip from Ellis to Liberty the date lost out. Or at least was postponed a couple days. Anna wasn't sure why the idea was so off-putting. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:Farley Mowat

Although the execution of the grey whale took place along much of the Atlantic seaboard of what is now the United States, by far the bloodiest destruction was committed in ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...

epub |eng | | Author:Glen Chilton [Glen Chilton ]

EVERYONE IS ENTITLED to a bad day now and then. Once in a while, for reasons completely beyond your control, a day goes wrong from beginning to end. On a ...

epub, mobi |ara, eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Michele Raffin

NINE Mail-Order Bride On those TV reality shows about animal rescue, the abuses are often appallingly clear—emaciated dogs and cats, skeletal horses, all delivered from their suffering by uniformed officers ...

epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Christina Pirello

Day 9 Think and Think Again An Israeli study showed that the polyphenols in red wine reduce fat absorption in the body by as much as 30%. And you don’t ...

epub, mobi |eng | 1972-01-02 | Author:Farley Mowat [Mowat, Farley]

* * * * The guts of the cod. When the Hanns returned to the Pond on Wednesday, they noted changes in the whale’s behaviour and appearance. “She waren’t blowing ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-08 | Author:Scott Leslie [Leslie, Scott]

ARMOURED MISTFROG Happy stories don’t crop up very often in the sobering realm of endangered species. The news reports about threatened animals and plants are almost always dire and typically ...

mobi |eng | 1991-12-14 | Author:Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [Adams, Douglas & Carwardine, Mark]

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 ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-15 | Author:Dan Drollette, Jr. [Drollette, Dan]

Cat Ba golden-headed langur. Depending on who you talk to, there are about sixty or eighty of them left. It was only discovered and named about ten years ago, in ...