Field Guides
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Paul D. Taylor,Aaron O'Dea [Taylor, Paul D.]

Losing a skeleton octopus OCTOPUSES ARE PECULIAR CREATURES. With their large eyes and head seemingly capable of accommodating an oversized brain, these molluscs resemble humanoid aliens from a science fiction ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sharon Stiteler [Stiteler, Sharon]

Male ostriches perform a mating dance to attract several females to his harem. Though there will be one dominant female to the harem, he is free to mate with all ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-20 | Author:Noah K. Strycker [Strycker, Noah K.]

seeing red WHEN THE PECKING ORDER BREAKS DOWN Let’s talk chicken. By the end of the twentieth century, domestic chickens outnumbered humans by about four to one on this planet, ...
( Category: Field Guides April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-11 | Author:Nicholas Ashton

CHAPTER 9 Island Britain: 125,000 Years Ago HORATIO NELSON LOOKS DOWN FROM his column on to one of London’s best hidden, but most remarkable sites. Beneath Trafalgar Square lie the ...
( Category: Evolution April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bernd Heinrich

* * * * * * COURTING AND DISPLAYS FINDING AND WINNING a proper mate is an important event, which many animals execute with considerable energy and inventive expertise. In ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology April 4,2018 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-06-04 | Author:Unknown

41 FBI Field Office, New York Howie Baumguard and his new partner, Angelita Fernandez, sat in the conference room waiting for the IT guy to fix the video link to ...
( Category: Field Guides April 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Paul D. Taylor [Taylor, Paul D.]

Losing a skeleton octopus OCTOPUSES ARE PECULIAR CREATURES. With their large eyes and head seemingly capable of accommodating an oversized brain, these molluscs resemble humanoid aliens from a science fiction ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 4,2018 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-03-17 | Author:Mark Cocker [Cocker, Mark]

HUMMINGBIRDS IN PRE-COLUMBIAN MYTH One of the striking things about almost all cultural portrayals of hummingbirds is that they honour this miraculous quality in their lives. The birds are writ ...
( Category: Biological Sciences April 3,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Todd Telander

GULLS, TERNS Least Tern, Sterna antillarum Family Laridae (Gulls, Terns) Size: 9" Season: Summer Habitat: Sandy coastal shores The Least Tern is the smallest North American tern, and the only ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Todd Telander

Northern Alligator Lizard, Elgaria coerulea Family Anguidae (Glass and Alligator Lizards) Size: Up to 12" long Range: Pacific Northwest to coastal California and the Sierra Nevada Habitat: Cool and moist ...
( Category: Biological Sciences March 29,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Biggle, Jacob

<\ 'If l{)qdtfed°near neigkbbrSvwho also have flocks, the-young poults should * be T marked with marking punches in the web of the foot. If the neighbors will agree to have ...
( Category: Field Guides March 25,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Darryl Jones

Changes in Behavior To conclude this selective review of supplementary feeding experiments on tits and chickadees, we turn to the possible influences on perhaps the most malleable and immediate features ...
( Category: Field Guides March 24,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:BirdNote & Ellen Blackstone & Emily Poole

Blakiston’s Fish Owl A SERIES OF DISTINCTIVE low hoots signals the presence of a sumo wrestler of a bird. It’s Blakiston’s Fish Owl—“Blakiston’s” because its existence was recorded by the ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 21,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-03-18 | Author:David Grazian

In a digital age of simulated reality, zoos and their audiences together draw on human imagination and cultural myth to construct the natural world as a collective fantasyland inhabited by ...
( Category: Sociology March 18,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Tony Tilford

This dark-looking kingfisher has adapted well to a diet of insects and terrestrial prey, and is not reliant on fishing for its survival. It can often be seen on an ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 18,2018 )