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News Of The Wild - ground squirrels' warning system, other news - Brief Article
KISSING (AND DISSING) COUSINS KISSING (AND DISSING) COUSINS It's the classic case of self-sacrifice for one's kin. When a predator approaches,...
National Wildlife, 08/01/02 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
SWAMPING LOUISIANA - As the state's coastal wetlands disappear, at the rate of a football field every half hour, both wildlife and human lives are threatened
SPEEDING ACROSS the seemingly endless marsh of south Louisiana's Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge, an airboat flushes flock after flock of great and...
National Wildlife, 04/01/02 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
Watching Birds—in the Field and on the Web - National Audubon Society: Christmas Bird Count, and other birdwatching events - Brief Article
On a sunny Saturday last May, a group of bicyclists pulled off a gravel trail into a clearing on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Washington,...
National Wildlife, 10/01/01 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
Mysteries of the Twilight Zone - Once dismissed as a biological wasteland, the deep sea teems with surprising life forms, most of them unknown to science - two-mile-deep canyon off Monterey, California
A COLORLESS, FACELESS animal that lives rooted to a rock wall and, like a Venus's-fly trap, eats by snapping its "mouth" around passing prey. A...
National Wildlife, 10/01/01 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
NATURAL PASSIONS - Mounting evidence suggests that animals feel a wide array of humanlike emotions, from happiness, sadness and anger to perhaps even love and embarrassment
AS A BIOLOGIST working for the Amboseli Elephant Research Project in Kenya, Joyce Poole has seen plenty of fascinating behaviors since she began...
International Wildlife, 09/01/01 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
By Watching What Animals Eat, Experts May Find New Medicines for People
Among some of western Tanzania's WaTongwe people, roots from the mulengelele plant are the treatment of choice for worms and other intestinal...
National Wildlife, 10/01/00 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
Flowering Finds In Our Own Backyards - researchers continue to find new plant species in US
Despite conventional wisdom that all plants in the United States have been identified, researchers continue to find new species Despite...
National Wildlife, 12/01/99 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
How Many Species Exist?
Scientists estimate that there are from 3 million to 100 million or more species on Earth, but the exact number is unknown. Taxonomists have named...
National Wildlife, 12/01/98 by Laura Tangley · More from publication -
last frontier forests, The
Most people know by now that deforestation, especially in the tropics, is a serious problem. We have lost almost half-roughly 3 billion hectares-of...
Issues in Science and Technology, 01/01/97 by Dirk Bryant; Daniel Nielson; Laura Tangley · More from publication
