epub |eng | 2018-03-03 | Author:Carin Bondar

11 OPPORTUNISTIC ORPHANS AND MAGNANIMOUS MOMS Moms can employ a number of strategies to ensure that their young are adequately fed during their first few months of life, and many ...

epub |eng | | Author:Stanley Coren

Figure 11-1 Basic tail positions: The top figure represents a relaxed, alert dog. Moving down the left column shows that the tail raises with increasing dominance or aggressive threat, while ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 1978-12-31 | Author:David Attenborough

So feathers did not evolve initially for flight and do not define birds. The birds inherited them from feathered ancestors. And this leads to the realisation that all dinosaurs were ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-25 | Author:Rupert Sheldrake [Sheldrake, Rupert]

For every case like this that is reported in the newspapers, dozens must remain unpublicized. On our database we have ninety-five unpublished stories of homing dogs and sixty-one of homing ...

epub |eng | 2008-05-12 | Author:Kathleen M. Dudzinski & Toni Frohoff

At times dolphins may leap just for fun … and sometimes leaps become part of a game of keep-away or tag. Spinner dolphins are named for their spinning leaps. Not ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-20 | Author:Benjamin Kilham

In our world things are much more complicated, and perceptions of fairness are a lot less exact. Today, when people think about a contract, we think about a legal document ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Kieran Mulvaney [Mulvaney, Kieran]

The bear, at least in de Veer's telling, bit the man's head to pieces and began to suck out his blood as the rest of those ashore, approximately twenty in ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Douglas H. Chadwick

After the country melted out, Copeland flew once a week to get radio locations. “Then we’d go in on the ground to try to follow the animals,” he explained. “The ...

epub |eng | 2014-02-23 | Author:G. A. Bradshaw

10 Speaking in Tongues As she approached his enclosure, her body stiffened and a cold sweat broke out. Massa would agitate and vocalize with his trunk swaying. It took every ...

epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Rachel Smolker [Smolker, Rachel]

Andrew and I were out surveying dolphin groups. We came across the male triplet Trips, Bite, and Cetus, with Yogi, a female, and the males Realnotch, Hi, and Patches. Booboo, ...

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 ...

epub |eng | | Author:Wendy Williams

The ethereal reindeer and horse of El Castillo Cave (Courtesy of Paul Bahn) We can tell from this art that, although horse population numbers were dropping, horses continued to be ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-18 | Author:Carol Cartaino

Urban and suburban coyotes cross many roads every day and night, and they do not always survive the experience. Courtesy of Colorado Division of Wildlife (Michael Seraphin) Is it true ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-09 | Author:Don E. Wilson [Wilson, Don E.]

Naked-Backed Bats The family Mormoopidae has only two genera and is limited to the New World (see photo E, Mormoops megalophylla, in the gallery). One genus, Pteronotus, has several species, ...

epub, mobi, azw |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Mark Essig [Essig, Mark]

Since the colonial period, Americans had been famous for consuming vast amounts of beef and pork, especially by comparison with the meat-starved peasantry of Europe. Statistics for early America are ...