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Alex & Me - How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process by Irene Pepperberg
mobi |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Irene Pepperberg

Not too long before we left Chicago, Alex gave me a terrible scare. In early September 1990, I returned from a short trip and found a message from a student ...
( Category: Animal Psychology April 5,2015 )
To the River by Olivia Laing
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olivia Laing

After the sun had dropped and I’d soaped myself thoroughly beneath a lukewarm shower I began to revive. I ate a curry in an empty restaurant and drank a beer ...
( Category: European April 5,2015 )
The Once and Future World by J.B. MacKinnon
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-24 | Author:J.B. MacKinnon

* Vegetarianism was in fashion in 1620s Netherlands, and one Snyders scholar has argued that this may have influenced the artist’s sympathetic portrayal of fish, which he often shows twisted ...
( Category: Ecology April 5,2015 )
Breasts by Florence Williams
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-05-22 | Author:Florence Williams

• 9 • HOLY CRAP: HERMAN, HAMLET, AND THE ALL-IMPORTANT HUMAN GUT O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like ...
( Category: Obstetrics & Gynecology April 5,2015 )
Touching the Wild by Joe Hutto
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Joe Hutto

Bubba in prime condition the day he was killed by a mountain lion. Bubba, the next day. Boar, alone at last. Having somehow made it my business to observe these ...
( Category: Mammals April 5,2015 )
The Final Frontiersman by James Campbell
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-19 | Author:James Campbell

CHAPTER 7 Back-to-Nature Boys In 1975, when Heimo Korth left Wisconsin, leaving behind everything and everybody he knew, he was answering a universally familiar call—the yearning to escape home. When ...
( Category: State & Local April 5,2015 )
The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning by Bair Julene
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-06 | Author:Bair, Julene [Bair, Julene]

7 IT TOOK ME A YEAR AND A HALF, BUT I FINALLY GOT MY OPPORTUNITY TO RESTORE NIGHT TO OUR FARM. An electrician came out to raise the wire between ...
( Category: Environmental April 5,2015 )
Raising Cattle for Dairy and Beef by Kim Pezza
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Kim Pezza [Pezza, Kim]

Some animals may appear weak, while others may only have chronic diarrhea. The animal usually will not exhibit any signs of fever. Although there seems to be no cure for ...
( Category: Fauna March 30,2015 )
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011 by Mary Roach
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Mary Roach [Roach, Mary]

It wasn't Folkman's triumph that Bahcall kept coming back to, however. It was his struggle. Folkman's great insight at the Naval Medical Center occurred in 1960. O'Reilly's breakthrough experiment occurred ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 23,2015 )
Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Montgomery Ben
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Montgomery, Ben [Montgomery, Ben]

Mary Snow’s story about Emma ran in Sports Illustrated on August 15—the day Emma would face death—under a black-and-white photograph of her on the trail. The headline was: PAT ON ...
( Category: Women March 22,2015 )
Animal Weapons by Douglas J. Emlen
epub |eng | | Author:Douglas J. Emlen

Submarines were the ultimate “sneaks” in naval warfare. Small and invisible, they could sink even the largest of battleships. By 1914, it was clear even to the British that despite ...
( Category: Zoology March 22,2015 )
Rat Island by William Stolzenburg
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...
( Category: Wildlife March 21,2015 )
Life at the Zoo by Phillip T. Robinson
epub |eng | 2011-12-22 | Author:Phillip T. Robinson

Tapeworm life cycle in a zoo bear Wild animals frequently recover from a wide variety of infections and injuries during their lifetimes, although any serious injury can make an individual ...
( Category: Zoology March 21,2015 )
In the Loyal Mountains by Rick Bass
epub |eng | | Author:Rick Bass

The Legend of Pig-Eye WE USED TO GO to bars, the really seedy ones, to find our fights. It excited Don. He loved going into the dark old dives, ducking ...
( Category: Short Stories March 21,2015 )
Wandering Home by Bill McKibben
epub |eng | 2005-03-20 | Author:Bill McKibben [McKibben, Bill]

This idea of a reconciliation between the wild and the pastoral is not something I’ve just worked out. In the last decade or so, conservationists have become more and more ...
( Category: General March 21,2015 )

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