epub |eng | 2011-05-17 | Author:Diane Ackerman [Ackerman, Diane]

One morning, though the seas were galloping and high, we stood on the promontory in back of the house, binoculars pressed to our eyes, searching the horizon for whales. Actually, ...

mobi |eng | 2002-04-08 | Author:Edward O. Wilson [Wilson, Edward O.]

When observation and theory collide, scientists turn to carefully designed experiments for resolution. Their motivation is especially high in the case of biological systems, which are typically far too complex ...

epub |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Dan Flores [Dan Flores]

A DREAM OF BISON 6 In the fall of 1886, William T. Hornaday, taxidermist at the National Museum in Washington, stepped off a train in Miles City, Montana, to undertake ...

epub |eng | 2005-09-16 | Author:David R. Boyd [Boyd, David R.]

Chapter 8 A River Becomes a Legal Person Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au. I am the river, and the river is me. Māori expression Until recently, ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:McLeish, Todd

The Sound is an urban estuary that contains 18 trillion gallons of water covering an area of 1,320 square miles to an average depth of 64 feet and drains a ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Giggs, Rebecca;

Being animals that variously inhabit the pitch-black and low-light seas, animals that sometimes hunt using the bio-sonic tings of echolocation, and which are thought to create, and maintain, their social ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-15 | Author:April C. Smith

Figure 15-3. Wavy, folded layers of mica schist bordered by the lighter Sauratown quartzite. Photo by Jesse Anderson. Ecology of Pilot Mountain Walking around Pilot Mountain, you are surrounded by ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Grant Fowlds

CHAPTER TWENTY: Hooves for Horns For those who love the outdoors, there is nothing more enthralling than trekking in the backcountry on horseback. It’s cemented into wilderness folklore, where horses ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-18 | Author:Michael Ashcroft

CHAPTER 7 AFTER SIMBA Operation Simba was an undoubted success in its own right. To have saved just one out of a possible 12,000 captive-bred lions from certain death felt ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-02 | Author:Rebecca E. Hirsch [Hirsch, Rebecca E.]

Too Fat to Fly? If Nosema bombi was indeed the culprit, how exactly was it causing bumblebee declines? Jamie Strange has been trying to answer this question. He has been ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-27 | Author:Rebecca Giggs

Being animals that variously inhabit the pitch-black and low-light seas, animals that sometimes hunt using the bio-sonic tings of echolocation, and which are thought to create, and maintain, their social ...

epub |eng | 2018-05-29 | Author:William McShea [McShea, William]

IUCN: LC BL: 98–120 cm CITES: NL TL: 17–20 cm CPS: NL WT: 17–40 kg CRL: NT Distribution The northern red muntjac is the most widespread muntjac species in Asia ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-14 | Author:Charles Bergman [Bergman, Charles]

Cape Town, South Africa 33.9249° S, 18.4241° E ABOUT TWO DOZEN adult penguins darted around the swimming pool. Two young penguins looked at us through the window of a pet ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-12 | Author:Peter Singer [Singer, Peter]

Making History Shelley organized a major press conference at the Plaza Hotel, at which Bergerac would hand over the initial check to a representativeof the university. The day of the ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Joshua Hammer

* * * The morning of June 11 dawned cold and clear in Kuujjuaq. The pilot guided the fully loaded helicopter west out of the Inuit village, leaving all traces ...