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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death by Susana Monso; Princeton University Press, 264 pp., $29.95 Tahlequah gave birth to a daughter in July 2018. The infant lived for only half [...]

Welcome to the 2023 Fall Preview. Here are 10 nonfiction favorites, representing an array of subjects, arranged by publication date. Let's start with one of my favorite New Yorker writers, [...]

This article discusses the decline of pollinators, including hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies. It highlights the importance of these creatures in our ecosystems and the potential consequences of their disappearance. The article also provides interesting cultural perspectives on hummingbirds, such as their symbolism in Native American and Celtic lore. It emphasizes the unique characteristics of hummingbirds, including their ability to hover and their incredible speed. Overall, the article raises awareness about the threats facing pollinators and the need for conservation efforts. [Extracted from the article]

WHY PEACOCKS?An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent BirdBy Sean Flynn Immanuel Kant wrote that only humans are capable of appreciating beauty -- a claim refuted soundly [...]

THE BIRD WAY: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think BY JENNIFER ACKERMAN Penguin Press, 368 pp., $28 GABRIELLE NEVITT GREW up enthralled with birds. [...]

MAMA'S LAST HUG Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us About Ourselves By Frans de Waal The two old friends hadn't seen each other lately. Now one of them was [...]

Standing on his hind legs, Stripe, a 250-pound moon bear with yellowish eyes, is looking Gary Galbreath in the face through the partially closed window of the Jeep's passenger seat--a […]

At a time when discussions of politics threaten to break out at any dinner party, a new book by the American Museum of Natural History researcher Bill Schutt provides a [...]

High-tech detectives unlock the mysteries of ocean migrants. A. Peter Klimley, a researcher from California's Bodega Marine Laboratory, pulled on his face mask, gulped a breath of air, and dived […]

An investigation of cats' whereabouts during the night reveals that cats may have a more active nightlife than their owners think. The disappearance of cats at night sometimes results to being transferred to another house, being hunted by wild animals or meeting an accident in the street.

We wake in the morning to the growling howls of monkeys. Deep and distant, their voices carry over the rainforest canopy, through treetops scented vanilla with orchids, past branches clothed [...]

When they began their study of sperm whales 14 years ago, researchers Lindy Weilgart and Hal Whitehead were astonished by what happened the first time they tried to enter the […]

Hundreds of turtles are in residence here - turtles recovering from illness or injury, turtles relinquished by previous owners and awaiting new homes, native baby turtles who hatched out late or too small, turtles who were born deformed or are permanently disabled and will live here forever. There are turtles with soft shells; turtles with necks longer than their bodies; turtles with heads so big they can't retract them; turtles whose shells glow in the dark. Emblazoned with the Turtle Rescue League logo, and with stickers urging fellow motorists to stop for turtles on the road, the cars serve as emergency vehicles for transporting injured turtles to the thousand-square-foot turtle hospital that occupies the basement - and that may house, at any one time, between two hundred and a thousand turtles. But then Alexxia deftly flips her over on her back, lays the turtle in her warm, dry hospital box, and places a plush turtle stuffie on her bottom shell. [Extracted from the article]

The proprietors of the Chesuncook Lake House, Bert and Maggie McBurnie, account for half the population of Chesuncook Village, ME. The Lake House offers exquisite accommodations in the heart of northern Maine, where guests find all the isolation and wildlife they need.

In the wild, far-away forests of Borneo, there may be more 'people' than you think! Look up! Up past the vine-covered trunks of the trees, up past the ferns that [...]

THE WHALE In Search of the Giants of the Sea By Philip Hoare Ecco/HarperCollins 453 pp. | $27.99 W hen I saw my first wild whale--a humpback visible from the [...]

Have you seen any dinosaurs today? Bet you have--right outside your window! You might even have a dinosaur feeder in your backyard. At Thanksgiving, perhaps you ate roast dinosaur. Maybe […]

Up in Warner, New Hampshire, David Carroll is waiting. "It's like the night before Christmas," says the swamp-loving author and illustrator. He keeps his radio tuned to the weather and […]

For just a few weeks each year, thousands of snakes slither in search of mates. For most of the year, the limestone sinks that pock the aspen prairie at the […]

The ice once stretched all the way from the Arctic to Pennsylvania, from Washington State across to New Jersey. During the Pleistocene, winter was really long: it lasted most of […]

Man-eating tigers prowl the forests of India. Yet the people there worship them, all because of the big cats' special powers. Dusk was bringing an end to a warm May […]

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Biologists were perplexed. The two rabbit species looked nearly identical and seemed to inhabit identical habitats. But one--the eastern cottontail, an introduced interloper--was pushing out the native species, the New […]

In his poem "Conversational Insects," H. I. Phillips has a confession to make: I long to interview the little Insects, and get the drift of what they re driving at: […]

Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Baja to Siberia. By Dick Russell. 622 pages. Simon & Schuster. $35 hardcover. Off the coast of Vancouver, a policeman phoned a marine [...]

You're traveling to a world that is full of water. In the Amazon River basin, the wet season lasts half the year. During the rainiest part of the wet season, […]

An up-close look at these velvet-furred stars of the underground. Spring, summer, or fall, you're sure to recognize a literary celebrity in our midst. With a velvety coat, whiskered snout, […]

As a nation reveals its wildlife secrets, it faces daunting challenges to conservation. As we pull over at the market--a street fragrant with French bread and roasting swallows, crammed with […]

IT is said that for every creature on this Earth there is a purpose," began the lead article of the newsletter of the New England Pumpkin Growers Association. But editor […]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water ... At the edge of the pond, where the mud is soft and warm, where tadpoles and […]

Realm of the Pink Dolphin The days are full of water. The wet season has drowned the village soccer fields and banana groves and manioc gardens, even flooded some of […]