Natural History
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Articles in Dec 2006 issue of Natural History
- Get along, little doggies
by Erin Espelie - Don't blame the Sun
by Graciela Flores - Origami Holiday Tree
- The long view
by Peter Brown - Broken refrigerator
by Graciela Flores - Maria Diana: Lieutenant Department of Security and Safety
- Jaws—or lips?
by A. Peter Klimley - Warm-weather friend
by Graciela Flores - Last chance!
- Running man
by Stephan Reebs - Turn, turn, turn: in addition to its daily spin and its annual trip around the Sun, the Earth wobbles—affecting the seasons, the "north star," and human history
by Donald Goldsmith - The museum at your fingertips: www.amnh.org
- No joy in Mudville
by Rebecca Kessler - The jaws that jump: trap-jaw ants have smashed the record for fastest predatory strike on Earth, with mandibles that double as spring launchers
by Adam Summers - Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
- Litter bugs
by Mary Knight - Big bird: the kori bustard, the world's heaviest flyer, depends on the rain on the Namibian plain for its breeding, success
by Tim Osborne - Baked eggs
by Stephan Reebs - Happy birthday, Linnaeus: the great biological classifier celebrates his 300th birthday in 2007, while Buffon, born the same year and Linnaeus's greatest rival, has been forgotten. Are we celebrating the wrong birthday?
by Richard Conniff - Four-winged migration
by Stephan Reebs - And for the coffee table
by Laurence A. Marshall - Enemy at the gates
by Stephan Reebs - The sky in December and January
by Joe Rao - New planets on the block
by Stephan Reebs - Sensory trade-off
by Herb Windolf