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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Elizabeth Kolbert]

A typical example of the species-area relationship, showing the shape of the curve. For the purposes of thinking about extinction, the species-area relationship is key. One (admittedly simplified) way of ...
( Category: Natural History April 13,2014 )
Zoo Story by Thomas French
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Thomas French

That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category: Wildlife March 27,2014 )
African Silences by Peter Matthiessen
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]

Toward midmorning, Jonah and I head west across the Garamba River, on a four-hundred-mile flight to Bangassou, in the Central African Republic. We have left the rivers that flow toward ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 26,2014 )
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen

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 ...
( Category: Endangered Species March 25,2014 )
Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives by Thomas French
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:Thomas French

That spring taught them all a new definition of hectic. The construction crews hurried to finish Safari Africa before the grand opening, and giraffes and zebras and warthogs were being ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink by Jane Goodall; Thane Maynard; Gail Hudson
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, ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Track of the Cat by Nevada Barr
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-06-03 | Author:Nevada Barr

CHAPTER 13 Widespread but not deadly was how the doctor at the Carlsbad Hospital had described Anna’s injuries. Her collarbone was cracked, her abdomen badly bruised, she had a slight ...
( Category: Murder March 25,2014 )
Last chance to see-- by Douglas Adams; Mark Carwardine
mobi, epub | | 1991-12-13 | 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 ...
( Category: Endangered Species March 25,2014 )
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams
mobi, epub | | 1991-01-29 | Author:Douglas Adams

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 ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )

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