Biological Sciences
epub |eng | 2015-07-09 | Author:Gerardo Ceballos

Asian elephants are the only elephants that can be easily tamed for work and entertainment. Like their African cousins, they are threatened by fragmentation of habitat—leading to hunting for ivory, ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-08 | Author:Davis, Barbara L. [Davis, Barbara L.]

Nesting and Mating Behaviors The Yellow-billed Cuckoo arrives in its breeding territory in early June and builds a frail, platform-type nest of sticks occasionally sparsely lined with grasses and leaves. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Olsen, Lars-Henrik [Olsen, Lars-Henrik]

Pine Marten scat. JH; inset, ED. Pine Marten tracks are similar to those of Beech Marten, but since Pine Martens have more hair on their feet, the prints in snow ...
( Category: Hunting & Fishing July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Ian Newton [Newton, Ian]

Greater fecundity is one way in which a migratory population could gain a competitive advantage over resident occupants in a shared wintering area where resources are limited. Even if the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Connie W. Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Judith J. Warren, Thomas R. Clancy & Roy L. Simpson

Community health status indicators http://​wwwn.​cdc.​gov/​CommunityHealth/​ Health profiles of every state and county and the District of Columbia. A set of primary and associated indicators that affect health outcomes and population ...
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-01-16 | Author:V. S. Ramachandran [Ramachandran, V. S.]

RECALL THE SIMPLE bouba-kiki experiment. Could it hold the key to understanding how the first words evolved among a band of ancestral hominins in the African savanna between one and ...
( Category: Evolution July 9,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Warwick

We wanted to vindicate a hedgehog’s search for justice in a much more inclusive theory of ethics and morality . . . Someone who lives well when he senses and ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 8,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-24 | Author:Kelly Lund

Hide me in the high places. Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado Arapahoe National Forest, Colorado Forest Grove, Oregon White River National Forest, Colorado Twin Lakes, Colorado The ancient art ...
( Category: Photography & Video July 8,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-07 | Author:Charles Sheldon [Sheldon, Charles]

As I was descending, I saw across the valley two white specks on the north-west slope of Mount Gray, and my glasses revealed two sheep feeding high among the rocks. ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology July 5,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Turner

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION THEORY Ecological modernization (EM) is a process by which societies address environmental change issues. Ecological modernization theory (EMT) is a theory of social change, i.e., an effort to ...
( Category: Earth Sciences July 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-03 | Author:Jon Willis

Down, Down, Down to Business Galileo carried with it a descent probe designed to separate from the main spacecraft and make a supersonic plunge into the unknown depths of the ...
( Category: Astronomy & Space Science July 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-08 | Author:Brooke Borel [Borel, Brooke]

SEVEN Money The Wild West of the Bed Bug Economy On the stage of a cavernous ballroom on the fifth floor of the Las Vegas Red Rock Resort, a balding ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 1,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Graham Jones

He rushed to the keepers’ lodge, telling the driver to follow him in his car with the devil. The keepers emerged and were amazed by what they saw sitting in ...
( Category: Winter Sports June 29,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-19 | Author:Kristin Lawless

7 Our “Safe” Exposure to Toxic Chemicals How the Regulatory Agencies Are Failing to Protect Our Health There was a big news story in July 2017 in the Well section ...
( Category: Engineering June 27,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-02 | Author:Jonas Salk

Though the present period of crisis confronts us with the danger of self-extinction, it also presents us with an opportunity for development that could aid long-term survival of the human ...
( Category: Architecture June 26,2018 )