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A Certain Curve of Horn by John Frederick Walker
epub |eng | 2002-04-01 | Author:John Frederick Walker

THE IDEA OF anyone shooting Angola’s great endangered antelope had made Anne Dodgson livid. “I’d like to post a reward on the Internet for turning in anyone who killed a ...
( Category: Mammals April 2,2016 )
The Wildlife of Southern Africa by Vincent Carruthers
epub |eng | 2008-03-13 | Author:Vincent Carruthers

Dimensions For small mammals, dimensions given are the body length from the tip of the snout to the base of the tail, plus the length of the tail. For large ...
( Category: Wildlife March 14,2016 )
The Hunt for the Golden Mole by Richard Girling
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Girling [Girling, Richard]

Uninvited guest – the lioness brought a sudden end to breakfast Another day, we rumble across the plain to the conservancy’s airstrip. It is heavily grazed and, at ground level, ...
( Category: Conservation March 6,2016 )
Animal Tracking Basics by Tiffany Morgan
epub |eng | 2013-03-21 | Author:Tiffany Morgan

When your twenty minutes of pick tracking are up, wrap up the exercise by writing a reflection paper. What did you notice toward the end of the ten minutes in ...
( Category: Wildlife March 3,2016 )
Listening to Whales by Alexandra Morton
epub |eng | 2012-01-03 | Author:Alexandra Morton [Morton, Alexandra]

Chapter 12 Robin and I needed three things in a home port: whales, mail service, and playmates for Jarret. He was now two, and it didn’t seem fair to raise ...
( Category: Mammals February 12,2016 )
Snail by Peter Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Williams

Emblematic of the Victorian age were the ‘Aurelians’, collectors of butterflies, who held their subject material in such awe that they bestowed its golden splendour on themselves. Snail collectors didn’t ...
( Category: Wildlife February 8,2016 )
Hair by Kurt Stenn
epub |eng | 2015-02-06 | Author:Kurt Stenn

12 WOOL BANKROLLS AN EMPIRE Wool made the fortunes of many who handled it, including Cosimo de’ Medici, the famous Renaissance banker, and Christopher Columbus. Perhaps the most famous weaver ...
( Category: Mammals February 7,2016 )
Emotional Lives of Animals and Children by William Crain
epub |eng | | Author:William Crain

6 Resilience When the real estate agent initially showed us our farm, we heard gunshots in the background. “Yes, there is hunting nearby,” she told us. “I don't like to ...
( Category: Animals February 2,2016 )
The Animal Kingdom: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Holland Peter
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Holland, Peter [Holland, Peter]

In the true flies, Diptera, the ancestral hind-wings have been modified into tiny club-shaped ‘halteres’. These are vibrated up and down during flight, out of phase with the flapping of ...
( Category: Zoology January 5,2016 )
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Maslin Mark
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Maslin, Mark [Maslin, Mark]

19. The 2003 European heat wave killed an estimated 35,000 people 20. Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures ENSO is an oscillation between three ...
( Category: Climatology December 22,2015 )
How the Dog Became the Dog by Mark Derr
epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Mark Derr [DERR, MARK]

The scene fades and shifts over untold thousands of years through worlds I don’t recognize, although they are of this one, until finally I see a blur— She is the ...
( Category: Dogs & Wolves December 12,2015 )
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1967-11-09 | Author:Desmond Morris [Morris, Desmond]

Chapter Four - Exploration ALL mammals have a strong exploratory urge, but for some it is more crucial than others. It depends largely on how specialised they have become during ...
( Category: Mammals December 11,2015 )
The Joy of Keeping Farm Animals by Childs Laura
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Childs, Laura

Many dairy goat breeders choose to bottle-feed the kids on a rigorous schedule to protect the teats of their does. This ten-pound Nubian goat has no trouble feeding from a ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry November 21,2015 )
Tracks and Shadows by Harry W. Greene
epub |eng | | Author:Harry W. Greene

Philippine Negritos with freshly killed reticulated python, twenty-three feet long and twenty-six inches in circumference, at the headwaters of the Koso River in the Sierra Madre, Aurora Province, Luzon, June ...
( Category: Ichthyology October 25,2015 )
Animal Wise by Virginia Morell
epub |eng | 2013-02-26 | Author:Virginia Morell [Morell, Virginia]

WHEN MCCOMB WASN’T TESTING the elephants, she was watching them. She kept a close eye on each family’s dynamics, looking for situations that might inspire an experiment. Sometimes, she told ...
( Category: Mammals October 12,2015 )

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