Natural History

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Articles in Oct 2002 issue of Natural History

• On a wing: get ready to join the fall migration. From Panama to the Poconos, a birdwatcher's guide to exciting autumn destinations… - Special Advertising Section
• Plains song: bison and life on the "American serengeti" - Excerpt
  by Dale F. Lott
• Bites of passage - Endpaper - man stung by bala ant while trying to study insect
  by Nathan Welton
• Accounting for taste - Samplings - how food habits of vultures affect their appearance - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• The interpretation of genes: the "expression" of a genome is best understood as a dialogue with an organism's environment. That dialogue, not the genes alone, determines which ant becomes a queen, which fish becomes a male
  by Jennie Dusheck
• Of a right mind to fight - Samplings - lizard behavior - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Trickle-down theory, Andean style: traditional irrigation practices provide a lesson in sharing
  by Paul Trawick
• The big picture - Up Front - how sciences influenced society
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• New NARCS? - Samplings - rats used as detectors of contraband - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Lip-o-suction: with teeth in its lips and its mouth open to 180[degrees], a hungry tadpole turns a scrape into a close shave - Biomechanics
  by Adam Summers
• Meteors and magnitudes - Letters
  by Robert Fleck
• Sounds like trouble - Samplings - how frogs react to fire - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Starry weather: partly cloudy, with a chance of flares? - Out There
  by Charles Liu
• Knock, knock - Letters
  by Priscilla Gadzinski
• Experiment of the month - Samplings - fiddler crab behavior - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• The sky in October
  by Joe Rao
• Spare that cicada killer - Letters
  by Lisa Pasquale
• Sewage treatment - Samplings - aphid behavior - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• A sudden death - The Natural Moment - water hole in Texas - Brief Article - Illustration
  by Judy Rice
• Ninja turtles - Letters
  by Edward Groth, III
• Getting a head in the world: when the naidid worm reproduces, it grows a new front for its back half and a new tail for its front - Findings
  by Alexandra Bely
• Sifting truth from Pelee's ashes: how the real causes of a famous disaster, long misunderstood, became key elements in the modern science of volcanology - Mount Pelee, Martinique
  by Steven Soter
• Tern, tern, tern: since 1969 Helen Hays, the tern lady of Great Gull Island, has helped conserve thousands of seabirds - At The Museum
  by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
• Let there be dark: to keep the cosmos in view, sky watchers must fight to keep the Earth from being enveloped in a fog of artificial light - Universe
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Bookshelf - recommended books - Bibliography
• Museum events in October
• Can nature be declawed? Ecofeminists may be substituting one stereotype for another - Ends & Means
  by Marlene Zuk
• Shifting ground - nature.net - web site about plate tectonics - Brief Article
  by Robert Anderson