The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
spread just about everywhere, and garlic mustard, also from Europe, and broadleaf plantains, yet another ...
the same, and this goes not just for other parts of the United States but all around the world. DAISIE, a ...
From the standpoint of the world’s biota, global travel represents a radically new phenomenon and, at the same ...
bottom of the hill, instead of strapping on snowshoes, we all piled onto snowmobiles. The trail zigged up ...
conditions at Aeolus were so harsh that the bats didn’t even make it out of the cave before dropping ...
ago, they had domesticated dogs, which they brought with them across the Bering land bridge. The Polyn ...
It attributed the accelerating pace to the increased quantities of goods being transported and also to the in ...
day, the solutions would slowly start to diffuse. The chemicals would recombine. Some new compounds ...
very different this time around but no less macabre. Over the course of the year, the piles of ...
opening in the slats. She noted that lucis reproduce very slowly—females produce only one pup per year—so even ...
The same corner of Guano Hall photographed in, from left to right: the winter of 2009 (with hibernatin ...
CHAPTER XI THE RHINO GETS AN ULTRASOUND Dicerorhinus sumatrensis The first view I got of Suci was her prodigi ...
the last ice age, ranged from Scotland to South Korea. E. O. Wilson, who once spent an evening at the ...
THE Sumatran rhino was once found from the foothills of the Himalayas, in what’s now Bhutan and nor ...
enclosure, but obviously unless they were brought together, they couldn’t mate. Roth threw hersel ...
Suci at the Cincinnati Zoo. The three captive-bred rhinos born in Cincinnati and the fourth in Way Kambas clea ...
Africa, the population of black rhinos approached a million; it has since been reduced to around five thousa ...
and filled with what look like prison cells. When I arrived, at around 7:30 AM, it was feeding time, ...
Very big animals are, of course, very big for a reason. Already at birth, Suci weighed seventy pounds. Had she b ...
had a dwarf elephant and a dwarf hippopotamus. Madagascar was home to three species of pygmy hippos, a fam ...
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