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Reef Madness by David Dobbs
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
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 )
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1993-01-01 | Author:Matt Ridley

The Rewards of Violence If reproduction has been the reward and goal of power and wealth, then it is little wonder that it has also been a frequent cause, and ...
( Category: Organic 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 )
Summer World: A Season of Bounty by Bernd Heinrich
mobi |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Bernd Heinrich

12 New England Longhorns 23 July 2005. TODAY I FOUND SEVERAL FOOT-LONG LIVE oak twigs on the ground under the tree I had planted about fifteen years ago next to ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger by Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman
mobi |eng | 2006-04-11 | Author:Margaret Mittelbach; Michael Crewdson; Alexis Rockman

After what seemed like hours of silence (but was actually exactly twenty-three minutes), a voice suddenly rose from the darkness. “I wasn't really into those beets on the sandwiches,” Chris ...
( Category: Wildlife March 25,2014 )
The Whale by Philip Hoare
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-11 | Author:Philip Hoare

NEGRO SLAVERY ABOLISHED 1 AUGUST MDCCCXXXIV –although it faces another building, one that belies the city’s claim to manumission. Passing through the double doors with their polished brass fingerplates, I ...
( Category: Marine Life March 25,2014 )
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee by Hattie Ellis
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-25 | Author:Hattie Ellis

How to track down wild honeybees in eighteenth-century America. On the other hand, Patrick Campbell, in his Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the years 1791 ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas D. Seeley
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-20 | Author:Thomas D. Seeley

Heinrich discovered many marvelous things about temperature regulation in honeybee swarms, all of which are key to understanding how a swarm prepares to fly to its new home. First, he ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett
mobi |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Mark W. Moffett

13 abduction in the afternoon A week into my stay at California’s Sagehen Creek, I was lounging among the grass tufts next to a Polyergus breviceps ant nest with Faerthen ...
( Category: Insects & Spiders March 25,2014 )
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:John Vaillant

Yuri Trush appreciated and respected these qualities in the tiger. While investigating the site of the Markov attack, and while writing his report that weekend, he had made a sincere ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 25,2014 )
The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal by Henry Nicholls
mobi |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Henry Nicholls

26. Zoologist Devra Kleiman at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo with Ling-Ling in 1982. In time, behaviour and vocalisations would also give an indirect measure of how comfortable the animals felt ...
( Category: Mammals March 25,2014 )
Winter World by Heinrich Bernd
mobi |eng | 2007-07-16 | Author:Heinrich, Bernd [Heinrich, Bernd]

14 INSECTS: FROM THE DIVERSITY TO THE LIMITS It seems astounding to us that some frogs can survive months being frozen, or that a bird as small as a kinglet ...
( 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 )
Dark Banquet by Bill Schutt
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-14 | Author:Bill Schutt

Besides their ability to draw off accumulating blood at surgical reattachment or transfer sites, researchers are currently exploring the possibility that leech “saliva” contains a virtual cornucopia of pharmacologically active ...
( Category: Fauna March 25,2014 )

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