epub |eng | 2014-03-25 | Author:Campbell, Iain; Woods, Sam; Leseberg, Nick

2 EASTERN GROUND PARROT Pezoporus wallicus 29–33cm/11.5–13in A long-tailed green parrot usually seen flying low over heath after being flushed. The back is green mottled with black and yellow, the ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-22 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

The West Indies CUBA AND HISPANIOLA. The two largest islands of the Greater Antilles contain an exuberant fauna and flora that form the bulk of the biodiversity of all the ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Olivia Laing

It was hard to square that statement with the things I’d seen: folder after folder attesting to creative decisions, to choices made and problems solved, though if I’d never read ...

epub |eng | | Author:William McDonough

Soil Not Oil Chapter 4 Food as a battery—that is what we would like you now to consider. But before we get to the full expression of that proposal, we ...

epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Oates

19 High adventures in the mid-1990s The 1994 butterflying season was launched by a Small Tortoiseshell at Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's former residence west of Sevenoaks in Kent, with shimmering ...

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 ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Sy Montgomery

— 9 — The Kingdom of a Million Elephants Perhaps in the Pleistocene, the Cardamoms were an upland refuge when the lowlands were too dry,” Gary mused. “It’s hard “ ...

epub |eng | 2009-03-13 | Author:John Frederick Walker

“MOMBASA IS SLOWLY taking over the role of the world’s main ivory centre from London,” proclaimed the Mombasa Times in January of 1961. During 1960–61 virtually all East African ivory, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kunzig

Rosacea flaccida, a siphonophore that grows to about 10 feet long, lets down its tentacles to form a large “fishing net” . No one really knows what the right conditions ...

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, ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:McAllister, Ian; Paquet, Paul C.; Darimont, Chris

Salmon Forests FALL THE RAIN pounded down on the roof of my boat; it sounded like a gorilla banging away up there. At the same time, the storm-force gusts hit ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-18 | Author:Sandy Gall [Gall, Sandy]

13 The Protection-Money Racket We don’t trust what they say any more. Pushtun elder, Kandahar, quoted in the New York Times, 26 March 2010 Kandahar is Afghanistan’s second city, the ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-06 | Author:Matt Wilkinson

THE SPICE OF LIFE Up to now we’ve assumed that once activated, the repeated appendage developmental modules pay no attention to the GPS coordinates given by the Wnt/BMP gradients. But ...

epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass [Bass, Rick]

In the morning, the nifty little refrigerator is broken, doubtless the result of Andreas’s mad cannon-ride run down off the red mountain, so Dennis and I are forced to eat ...

epub |eng | | Author:Franz Schmithüsen,Bastian Kaiser,Albin Schmidhauser,Stephan Mellinghoff,Karoline Perchthaler,Alfred W. Kammerhofer & Bastian Kaiser & Albin Schmidhauser & Stephan Mellinghoff & Karoline Perchthaler & Alfred W. Kammerhofer [Franz Schmithüsen]

Source: Picot et al. 2005: 142, ©; 2005 Schäffer-Poeschel Verlag für Wirtschaft, Steuern, Recht in Stuttgart. their effects may be explained have direct implications for transaction costs. In turn, transaction ...