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Amazing Arachnids by Cowles Jillian
epub |eng | 2018-03-14 | Author:Cowles, Jillian.

The male pholcid spider (Physocyclus) has tiny ridges on his chelicerae. During courtship, he rubs these ridges with a hardened area of his pedipalp, thus stridulating and so signaling to ...
( Category: Entomology March 20,2020 )
The Dodo and the Solitaire by Jolyon C. Parish
epub |eng | | Author:Jolyon C. Parish

After dinner it was arranged that we should start in boats at midnight, the tide then serving, for the caves on the south-west side of the island. We eventually got ...
( Category: Ornithology March 19,2020 )
The John A. Livingston Reader by John Livingston
epub |eng | 2007-01-22 | Author:John Livingston [Livingston, John A.]

FOUR The NUMBERS GAME Whether there is “purpose” in life is questionable, but there are definite trends. Biologically, the trend is toward diversity and variety, in order that the stable ...
( Category: Conservation March 19,2020 )
Heaven's Breath by Lyall Watson
epub |eng | 2019-08-13 | Author:Lyall Watson

PART FOUR Wind and Body We are air conditioned. Every adult has around two square metres of skin in contact with surrounding air. And, in turn, surrounds a roomful of ...
( Category: Weather March 19,2020 )
Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City by Leslie Day
epub |eng | 2007-03-18 | Author:Leslie Day

Plate 24 DIAMONDBACK TERRAPIN • Since human disturbance can prevent females from nesting, the best way to view terrapins is with binoculars from 150 feet. Eastern Painted Turtle: Chrysemys picta ...
( Category: Wildlife March 19,2020 )
The Honey Factory by Jürgen Tautz
epub |eng | | Author:Jürgen Tautz

How bees find their way to the dancers The recruitment of foragers is an intricate behavioural chain that begins in the dark hive. It is here that scouts and foragers ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 19,2020 )
Venom by Brendan James Murray
epub |eng | 2017-07-11 | Author:Brendan James Murray

Chapter 18 Pro scientia mori By the time Budden arrived at Cairns Base Hospital at eleven o’clock, the emergency ward had been readied in preparation for a case of severe ...
( Category: Reptiles & Amphibians March 17,2020 )
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

CELL-MAKING INSTINCT OF THE HIVE-BEE. I will not here enter on minute details on this subject, but will merely give an outline of the conclusions at which I have arrived. ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 17,2020 )
The Pig by Lutwyche Richard;
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Lutwyche, Richard;

FARMYARD CONFESSIONS In the Middle Ages, a number of trials took place involving animals condemned for crimes and misdeeds. The pig featured prominently in these, although creatures as small as ...
( Category: Mammals March 16,2020 )
Innumerable Insects by Michael S. Engel
epub |eng | | Author:Michael S. Engel

Flies are among the most ecologically varied of all insects, and some—such as the stalk-eyed flies (family Diopsidae), figured here among their relatives—are textbook examples of exaggerated male ornamentation resulting ...
( Category: Entomology March 16,2020 )
Next Species by Michael Tennesen
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Tennesen

11 PREDATORS WILL SCRAMBLE OVER THE LAST 600 million years, during most of the extinction events, predators were the last to go. During the Cretaceous extinction, which knocked out the ...
( Category: Natural History March 15,2020 )
Wild Catalina Island by Carlos de la Rosa Frank Hein
epub |eng | 2018-12-12 | Author:Carlos de la Rosa, Frank Hein

When plates collide! This close-up shows the forces that ultimately led to the formation of Catalina and the Channel Islands. Courtesy of Gary Jacobson . Alone at sea, Catalina emerged ...
( Category: Conservation March 15,2020 )
RSPB Spotlight Sparrows by Amy-Jane Beer
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Amy-Jane Beer

Perfectly at home – House Sparrows seldom nest more than a few metres from human settlements, and actively prefer buildings in which people still live. Tree Sparrow nest sites The ...
( Category: Ornithology March 14,2020 )
Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle by Charles Darwin
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

page 265 Recapitulation. —I will recapitulate the principal facts with regard to the climate, ice-action, and organic productions of the southern hemisphere, transposing the places in imagination to Europe, with ...
( Category: Natural History March 13,2020 )
Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads by Asma Stephen T
epub |eng | 2001-03-10 | Author:Asma, Stephen T.

I wandered a bit more through Cuvier’s collection and eventually found Heidi staring at a shockingly bright orange-and-red orangutan specimen. The glass case was part of the “Respiratory” series, and ...
( Category: Natural History March 11,2020 )

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