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- 1From:Natural History (Vol. 131, Issue 2)On an annual birding trip to Monhegan Island--a chunk of rock ten miles off the Maine mainland and less than a square mile in area--a friend of mine was fortunate early in the day to see a stunning, male scarlet tanager...
- 2From:The EconomistBirds feast on bugs, not the other way around. But that role-reversal is what Mahmood Kolnegari of the Avaye Dornaye Khakestari Institute, in Iran, and Connor Panter of the University of Nottingham, in Britain, saw when...
- 3From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 10)This past summer, deep in the hardwood forests of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Matt Johnstone was in his cabin when he saw a chipmunk writhing on the ground outside. It was an individual that he had seen many times...
- 4From:Spectator (Vol. 350, Issue 10127)Iown a grass farm in the Chilterns which provides grazing for horses and haymaking. It also provides habitat for hares, skylarks, lapwings and field voles (the staple diet of my resident pair of barn owls) - which is why...
- 5From:The EconomistAnyone seen a shark around here? A new study attempts to work out how well disguise works in nature C AMOUFLAGE IS THE by-product of an evolutionary arms race between one group--the predators--that want to eat...
- 6From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 8)Biological control of invasive vertebrates has often involved importing predators that have coevolved to prey upon the invasive species. But a team of researchers at Cornell University and in the UK and Ireland has found...
- 7From:New York State Conservationist (Vol. 76, Issue 6)As I was looking out my kitchen window in early January, I saw an eastern bluebird perched on a fence, scanning the bare ground for insects. I quickly retrieved my binoculars so I could get a better view of him--what a...
- 8From:Mother Earth News (Issue 312)Our gardens are home to many natural predators, from the familiar ladybugs and spiders to the less-familiar rove beetles and parasitic wasps. These natural predators, or "beneficials," are your gardens first line of...
- 9From:Natural History (Vol. 130, Issue 3)In 1988, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) contracted with the non-profit, Northwest Ecological Research Institute (NERI) in Portland, OR, to conduct a one-year study of western and mountain blue-birds (Sialia...
- 10From:Subtropics (Issue 32)Author's note: Many works were consulted while researching these poems. A constant support and companion has been Hugh Thomas's magisterial and often darkly comic The Spanish Civil War. Details regarding the...
- 11From:Maclean's (Vol. 134, Issue 11)It's a late summer day in the British Columbia Rockies. The skies are clear and the air is crisp on the eastern shoulder of Mount Burgess. It's near the top of a mountain pass, along a 13-km trail frequented by human...
- 12From:DVM 360 (Vol. 52, Issue 4)About 6 million domestic and feral cats live in Australia, and collectively they kill an incredible 1.7 billion native animals each year. Cats have played a major role in most of the nation's mammal extinctions--34...
- 13From:Whole Dog Journal (Vol. 23, Issue 3)When you think about it, it's a bit of a miracle that animals who would be predator and prey in many environments are often able to live peacefully together in our homes. How does this happen? Sometimes it just...
- 14From:Earth Island Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 1)AT 4 A.M., BEFORE THE SUN STARTED TO RISE over the Amazon rainforest, Veronica Iriarte stepped into her aluminum skiff and started the motor, battling unsuccessfully with a swarm of hungry mosquitoes. She stopped to...
- 15From:Earth Island Journal (Vol. 34, Issue 1)Imagine making the long journey to Northern Europe all the way from Africa, hunting around for a place to build a home in hopes of raising young ones, finding a nice cozy spot, and settling in, only to have the irate...
- 16From:Natural History (Vol. 127, Issue 1)In mid-May 2017, the still leaf-bare sugar maples shone a delicate light yellow, as flower buds burst open to dangle millions of tiny blooms on thread-thin stalks. Contrary to presumptions of annual flowering of most...
- 17From:The Economist (Vol. 427, Issue 9096)Charge! It depends on whether you are a pilot whale or a dolphin THAT the best form of defence is attack is an old maxim. In reality, it is frequently untrue; running away is a far better option. But it seems to...
- 18From:Natural History (Vol. 126, Issue 5)The carnivorous Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula, uses its specialized leaves as snap traps to feed upon arthropods. But, as a flowering plant, it also relies on invertebrates for pollination. A new study provides the...
- 19From:Natural History (Vol. 126, Issue 5)Research on venom--a mixture of toxins used by many species to defend against predators or to subdue prey--has been largely focused on the adult stage of development, even though many species undergo dramatic...
- 20From:USA Today (Vol. 146, Issue 2874)If there is an upshot to the appearance of invasive species, it is that they might provide an additional food source for the native animals whose territory they are invading. However, an analysis of scientific studies...