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Once They Were Hats: In Search of the Mighty Beaver by Frances Backhouse
epub |ara | 2015-09-30 | Author:Frances Backhouse [Backhouse, Frances]

kl .Seven. ONE MADE BEAVER The beaver dangled from a chain looped around its left foreleg and thrown over a rafter. It was the first thing I noticed as I ...
( Category: Wildlife March 6,2020 )
Camel Crazy by Christina Adams
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Christina Adams

23THE MOST CAMEL-CRAZY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD “Good luck with that.” — FEMALE SOMALI HERDER My body is slowly sweltering in a San Diego apartment, but mentally I’m in Somalia. ...
( Category: Mammals March 4,2020 )
The Strange Case of the Mad Professor by Peter Kobel
epub |eng | 2013-07-01 | Author:Peter Kobel

The mid- to late 1970s made for heady times in the rock scene in New York City. NYU students could slam shut their textbooks and walk a few blocks to ...
( Category: Mammals March 2,2020 )
Last Chain On Billie by Carol Bradley
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-08-28 | Author:Carol Bradley

* * * THIRTEEN SETBACKS IN ILLINOIS One obstacle remained before the Sanctuary could truck the remaining nine Hawthorn elephants to their new home. The state of Tennessee required blood ...
( Category: Mammals March 2,2020 )
A Prickly Affair by Hugh Warwick
epub |eng | 2008-02-29 | Author:Hugh Warwick

And as she watched the grass, she began to notice droppings, hedgehog droppings. These are distinctive: frequently quite shiny as a result of the exoskeletons of the insects they munch ...
( Category: Mammals March 1,2020 )
The Lost Whale by Michael Parfit
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Parfit

CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE May 2004 A few days later, I came back toward the Gold River docks from Mooyah Bay in a wind-conflicted sea, in the strange light made by heavy ...
( Category: Marine Life February 28,2020 )
The Lost Wolves of Japan by Walker Brett L.; Cronon William;
epub |eng | | Author:Walker, Brett L.; Cronon, William;

JAPAN'S WOLFERS Hokkaido's crow and wolf hunters left only traces of their activities in the form of bounty records buried deep in archives. Records from between February 1880 and June ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry February 25,2020 )
Cracking the Genome by Kevin Davies
epub |eng | 2001-07-15 | Author:Kevin Davies

Last but not least, the Whitehead Institute’s Eric Lander bagged his personal favorite chromosome—17, which had been his lucky number since he became fascinated by its unique mathematical properties—and helpfully ...
( Category: Mammals February 24,2020 )
The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Elizabeth Marshall Thomas [Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall]

What was the importance to the lions of the truce between them and the people, and what did the lions have to do to keep the truce? To consider the ...
( Category: Cats, Lions & Tigers February 24,2020 )
Consider the Platypus by Maggie Ryan Sandford & Rodica Prato
epub |eng | 2019-08-26 | Author:Maggie Ryan Sandford & Rodica Prato

Skull of Felis catus. From specimen collector Hubert Ludwig’s book Schul-Naturgeschichte (School of Natural History), 1891. Under it all, though, cat eyes and human eyes have a lot in common. ...
( Category: Wildlife February 22,2020 )
Animal Talk by Penelope Smith
epub |eng | 2008-07-15 | Author:Penelope Smith

A somewhat similar case involved a horse named Maxwell. His people had a problem with his riding stiffly and his resistance to turning, particularly to the left. He told me ...
( Category: ESP February 20,2020 )
Life on the Rocks by Bruce L. Smith
epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Bruce L. Smith

Mountain goat 100,000 Bighorn sheep 67,000 Dall and Stone sheep 115,000 Musk-ox 140,000 Moose 975,000 Elk 1,000,000 Pronghorn antelope 1,000,000 Caribou 4,000,000 Black-tailed and mule deer 7,000,000 White-tailed deer 26,000,000 ...
( Category: Wildlife February 16,2020 )
Whales by Kelsey Oseid
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Kelsey Oseid

TUSKING Male narwhals are sometimes observed crossing tusks with each other above the surface of the water; this behavior is known as “tusking.” In the past, this was believed to ...
( Category: Marine Life February 15,2020 )
Mammal Tracks & Sign by Mark Elbroch
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Elbroch

Muskrat. Muskrats form runs between water sources and leading from burrow systems (in habitats where they do not build lodges) to feeding areas. You can also find them connecting ponds ...
( Category: Mammals February 4,2020 )
The First Domestication: How Wolves and Humans Coevolved by Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Raymond Pierotti & Brandy R. Fogg [Pierotti, Raymond & Fogg, Brandy R.]

HUMANS AS WOLF’S STUDENTS Stories told by Indigenous American peoples about their relationships with wolves suggest that through much of the early stages of the evolution of human hunting practices, ...
( Category: Mammals January 19,2020 )

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