National Geographic USA - 10.2019
Wildlife personnel pull a dead giraffe from a poacher’s snare in Amboseli, Kenya. A single animal can yield 650 pounds of valu- ...
Act ual^ si ze^ of^ third^ vertebra Feeding Fighting Surveying 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Scapula Weight 2,600 lbsHeight17 ft Life span 14 ft ...
Metacarpal Metacarpal Ulna Ulna Humerus Humerus Radius Stomach chambers Intestine 0.7 pound 6-7 pounds80-100 beats per minute 60 ...
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Kenyan wildlife experts approach a reticulated giraffe that has been tranquilized in the Loisaba Wildlife Con- servancy. They’ll ...
Workers load a West African giraffe into a trailer. Later it will be moved 500 miles to Niger’s northeast Gadabedji Biosphere Re ...
get together for a period of time before dissolv- ing. Other species with fission-fusion societies, such as elephants and chimpa ...
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In Chad’s Zakouma National Park, Kordofan giraffes rub necks— possibly a prelude to fighting or some other form of communica- ti ...
A Kenyan student mod- els a mask during a visit to her school by the Twiga Walinzi—Giraffe Guards—a conserva- tion team whose wo ...
for twice-a-day feeds beneath gao trees and a three-hour nap for the crew, we finally arrive at Gadabedji, where we’re greeted b ...
WHERE FISH ARE STUCK IN TIME VANISHING: A SPECIAL ISSUE BY RICHARD CONNIFF PHOTOGRAPHS BY CRAIG CUTLER A LOUISIANA BIOLOGIST’S H ...
Three common half- beaks (Hyporhamphus unifasciatus), caught in the Gulf of Mexico in 1954, reflect the depth of the collection ...
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Collection manager Justin Mann cradles an Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus. Dams that block breed- ing grounds threaten t ...
IS A HORROR MOVIE director’s dream of a nat- ural history collection. You find it by driving 10 miles southeast of New Orleans, ...
for Suttkus, on the contrary, was that everything in his net ended up in a jar. Other biologists frowned. Overcollecting at the ...
Zebra moray eel, Gymnomuraena zebra 2. American pocket shark, Mollisquama mississippiensis n. sp. Largehead hairtail, Trichiuru ...
These are harelip suck- ers (Moxostoma lace- rum), a species that is now extinct. Scientists say the fish was starved out of exi ...
Ocellated synodontis, Synodontis ocellifer 2. Mississippi paddlefish, Polyodon spathula 3. Leopard moray eel, Enchelycore parda ...
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