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...tation to promote sustainable fsheries and aquaculture, protect our marine mammals, conserve and restore habitats, ensure our seafood is safe, and...

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...s for it. Butthatwaswhatthemagicianwanted.Sohemadeother creatures: fish, fowl, mammals, all to no avail—none of them understood him. It was very sad t...

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...ully. We have many things to be proud of. First of all, we are not fish. We are mammals who live in the water. We don t lay eggs like other fish. Y ou...

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...he female reproductive tissue differentiates in the originally neutral gonad of the mammal." Yet, sexual preferences, genitalia and even secondary s... ...blocks? Sociobiologists would have us think so. For instance: the fact that we are mammals is astonishingly often overlooked. Most mammalian famili...

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...legy, a perfection of tragedy, devoted to the loss of a particular furred mammal, but it's not clear if it was an ally or a beloved friend." "So w... ... ■ In a less manipulative part of the world, a group of small, furred mammals sat on one of the tips of the Barkul Range. Islands now, they wou... ... to talk to Lei-kung. His promise to Nü-kua forced him on. "A tiger's a mammal, a hunter; it's got stripes like you." "You mean there's something... ... Rue almost missed what Erh-lang said next. The mention of small furred mammals had struck a memory: an old poem in the tablets, something about a ...

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...Universe in organic seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, shellfish, fish, birds, mammals and brains. This basic design of Splitness is older than Natu... ...ative Change. Nothing in the Universe is unchanging. What we as short-lived mammals deem to be permanent or unchanging is merely due to our relati... ...sent we exist in. That context is the perspective of only one sub-species of mammals living upon one planet, in one solar system, in one galaxy: wh... ...he birth of the Male and Female Universe can be seen in the sexual organs of mammals. The female vulva is shaped exactly like the two curved Unive... ...This is why animals have two pairs of twelve ribs. This is why the spines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a ... ...This is why animals have two pairs of twelve ribs. This is why the spines of mammals contain 24 vertebrae. This is why there are twelve notes on a ... ...alled self-awareness. It is the reason humans act differently from all other mammals. It is the reason why humans developed as they did. It is the... ...le. This genetic wisdom exists in the most intelligent and newest species of mammals who live on the ground and are not predatory killers: musk ox,... ...predatory killers: musk ox, bison, water buffalo. Procreating mature male mammals generally have the shortest life span of their species. One wo...

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...but agree that the synapsid—a common reptile ancestor we share with other mammals—had the first ear bone that resonated sounds to its brain. Synapsi... ...e call subcutaneous fat not found on other apes but also found on aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—aga... ... between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed downwar... ...he larynx. Our larynx is that lump we call our ―Adam‘s apple.‖ Most mammals‘ larynxes sit upright behind the tongue and in the back of the nose...

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...but agree that the synapsid—a common reptile ancestor we share with other mammals—had the first ear bone that resonated sounds to its brain. Synapsi... ...e call subcutaneous fat not found on other apes but also found on aquatic mammals, such as whales, dolphins, and seals.  Our lack of body hair—aga... ... between the fingers.  Voluntary breath control, such as the kind marine mammals and birds possess.  A hooded nose with nostrils pointed downwar... ...f the larynx. Our larynx is that lump we call our ―Adam‘s apple.‖ Most mammals‘ larynxes sit upright behind the tongue and in the back of the nose...

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...ng and thinking, mentally creating and committing one's creation to a medium. All mammals exhibit the same REM/EEG patterns and may, therefore, be... ...he female reproductive tissue differentiates in the originally neutral gonad of the mammal." Yet, sexual preferences, genitalia and even secondary ... ...blocks? Sociobiologists would have us think so. For instance: the fact that we are mammals is astonishingly often overlooked. Most mammalian famili...

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...ng and thinking, mentally creating and committing one's creation to a medium. All mammals exhibit the same REM/EEG patterns and may, therefore, be... ...he female reproductive tissue differentiates in the originally neutral gonad of the mammal." Yet, sexual preferences, genitalia and even secondary ... ...blocks? Sociobiologists would have us think so. For instance: the fact that we are mammals is astonishingly often overlooked. Most mammalian famili...

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...follow each other off a cliff? Is the ultimate control of population in our mammalian genes?” NATURAL DISASTERS —“Commander, even if we don’t ma... ...f when a neighbor kid would feed mice to his snake. Why feed a higher level mammal to a lower level reptile?” “These are some of the same ...

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...lassifying the various types of animals from the single celled amoebas to mammals, and since humans were doing the classifying we decided that we we... ...or they would have been killed at the animal shelter. What about feeding mammals to reptiles in zoos -- ―The human protests for animals ex... ...to people? If not, at which phylum do we draw the line? Worms, jellyfish, mammals, fish, flatworms, insects, birds, reptiles?‖ —―You‘re right. ... ...great whites? For most of the animal rights people it definitely includes mammals like: monkeys, whales and seals, cats and dogs.‖ 308 From a se... ...ts in our homes and funeral parlors? ―Do we limit any rights to only mammals, so we can cruelly keep catching fish and shooting birds? Should w... ... can cruelly keep catching fish and shooting birds? Should we limit it to mammals whose adult weight is over ten pounds so we can eliminate rats and... ...or do we widen our definition of ‗person‘ to include some of the genus of mammals into personhood?‖ —―But Wanda you haven‘t considered the sou...

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...ng and thinking, mentally creating and committing one's creation to a medium. All mammals exhibit the same REM/EEG patterns and may, therefore, be...

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...aker. "If you must know, it's a kitten..." "A cat?" "Yes, duh. Carnivorous mammal, Felis Catus, long domesticated and made into pets by man." "I don't...

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...n bait to their fields, usually poisoned grain. Mice, rats and other small mammals dying of the poison are devoured by snakes, small mammals and birds...

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...m a mouse. But we do not condemn the scientist who notes that they are both “mammals”—a socially constructed category—so long as he has a reason for f... ...atisfying proofs are existence proofs. A platypus is an existence proof that mammals can lay eggs. The Internet is an existence proof of the remarkabl... ... article in Nature, “A universal RNAi-based logic evaluator that operates in mammalian cells.” 12 The scientists describe their task in terms that sho... ...alled “Boolean algebra”— “or,” “and,” “not,” and so on—implemented in living mammalian cells. These inscriptions of Boolean algebra in cells and DNA s...

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...be enjoyable in such remoteness. There was pain in it but like any adaptive mammal choosing one lesser pain to the greater one (in his case choosing ...

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...Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological abnormalities but also 24 articulated human skeletons without any apparent defect. His friend, Dr. Wharton, is puzzled by the collection, but he humors Challoner's eccentricities and tends to h...

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...he Governor Higginson had to do neither more nor less than with an aquatic mammal, unknown till then, which threw up from its blow-holes columns of wa... ...hey thought themselves justi- fied in estimating the minimum length of the mammal at more than three hundred and fifty feet, as the Shannon and Helvet... ..., Ned, you, a whaler by profession, familiarised with all the great marine mammalia—you ought to be the last to doubt under such circumstances!” “That... ... conviction resting on the logic of facts. I believe in the existence of a mammal power fully organised, belonging to the branch of vertebrata, like t... ...g. I concluded definitely that it belonged to the vertebrate branch, class mammalia. The crew waited impatiently for their chief’s orders. The latter,... ...body, and not the soft substance that forms the bodies of the great marine mammalia. But this hard body might be a bony covering, like that of the ant... ...d the lustre of its coat would certainly fetch £80. I admired this curious mammal, with its rounded head ornamented with short 87 Jules Verne ears, i... ...was now 224 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea divided with large troops of sea-mammals, looking at us with their soft eyes. There were several kinds of se... ...re, I can aver that earth and ice were lost to sight by the numbers of sea-mammals covering them, and I involuntarily sought for old Proteus, the myth...

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... bling floating islands. Over the dimly lighted strand there trod the huge mammals of the first ages of the world, the leptotherium (slender beast), f... ...even farther still into the ages before the creation of living beings. The mammals dis- appear, then the birds vanish, then the reptiles of the sec- o... ...after the molluscs, the crustaceans and le fishes, preceded the animals of mammalian race upon the earth. The world then belonged to reptiles. Those m... ...d on which we were treading. On the loose *The glyptodon and armadillo are mammalian; the tortoise is a chelonian, a reptile, distinct classes of the ... ...g more remarkable than the bones of the mammoth 173 Jules Verne and other mammals of the post-tertiary period. But in the presence of this specimen t... ... ture had here provided vegetable nourishment, why should not the terrible mammals be there too? I perceived in the broad clearings left by fallen tre...

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...- ginning to end. Diplomatists are children compared with these classes of mammals; they have time before them, an element which is lacking to those p...

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...Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals of North America in the form of an entertaining story, including plenty of detail but omitting long scientific names. There is an emphasis on conservation. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)...

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... creatures. Included in these essays are Burrough's personal observations of squirrels, rabbits, mink, and chipmunks, as well as numerous other small mammals. Highly recommended for anyone, both young and old, with an interest in nature and wildlife. (summary by Laura Caldwell)...

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...e learn about microscopy, and the intricate workings of the human body and mind. The major part, however, is devoted to the Natural History of birds, mammals, and insects. (Summary adapted from the first volume by Availle.)...

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...habitants of oceanic islands — Absence of Batra- chians and of terrestrial Mammals — On the rela- tion of the inhabitants of islands to those of the n... ...uliar to it! When we bear in mind that Britain has now hardly one peculiar mammal, and France but few distinct from those of Germany and conversely, a... ...it be remembered how powerful the influence of a single introduced tree or mammal has been shown to be. But in the case of an island, or of a country ... ...Waterhouse and others have remarked, our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent mammals, could successfully compete with these well-pronounced orders. In t... ... successfully compete with these well-pronounced orders. In the Australian mammals, we see the process of diversification in an early and incomplete s... ...I think it can hardly be accidental, that if we pick out the two orders of mammalia which are most abnormal in their dermal coverings, viz. Cetacea (w... ...ed species. Thus, the bat’s wing is a most abnormal structure in the class mammalia; but the rule would not here apply, because there is a whole group... ... are adapted to live on the land, and seeing that we have flying birds and mammals, flying insects of the most diversified types, and formerly had fly... ...-feeding male turkey is likewise naked. The sutures in the skulls of young mammals have been advanced as a beauti- ful adaptation for aiding parturiti...

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...rs. There should be a series of Coming of Ages for every indi- vidual. The mammals have their first coming of age when they are weaned; and it is note... ...rent has to be performed resolutely, with claws and teeth; for your little mammal does not want to be weaned, and yields only to a pretty rough assert... ... The Family, The Domestic Hearth, and so on, are no more specific than The Mammals, or The Man In The Street; and the pious generalizations founded so...

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...eard nothing but laughter and a promise to flay him (sic), though the poor mammal, compelled to swallow such a mass, was vainly shedding tears. An u... ...ey pity the crocodile!” “What of it? They have pity even for a beast, a mammal. We must be up to Europe, mustn’t we? They have a very warm feel ...

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... need. Mangrove was on ev- ery board of directors, solid citizen and model mammal. Unfortunately, Mangrove was keenly aware of just how good a dolphin...

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... need. Mangrove was on ev- ery board of directors, solid citizen and model mammal. Unfortunately, Mangrove was keenly aware of just how good a dolphin...

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...iso. 4 The V oyage of the Beagle Beagle includes an account of the Fossil Mammalia, by Professor Owen; of the Living Mammalia, by Mr. Waterhouse; of ... ...and many rep- tiles, including nine species of snakes. Of the indig- enous mammalia, the only one now left of any size, which is common, is the Cervus... ...icas,’ 1857), this district, and he believes that the bones of the extinct mammals were washed out of the underlying Pampean de- posit, and subsequent... ...isted on by Mr. Lyell, namely, that the “lon- gevity of the species in the mammalia is upon the whole inferior to that of the testacea.”* The great si... ...e are compelled to conclude, against anterior probability,* that among the mammalia there exists no close relation between the bulk of the species, an... ...ook back to the tertiary epochs, to find a con- dition of things among the mammalia, resembling that now existing at the Cape of Good Hope. Those tert... ... surprised at the marvellous fact. I have already mentioned nearly all the mammalia common in this country. Of armadilloes three spe- cies occur namel... ...Equus curvidens. Certainly it is a marvellous fact in the his- tory of the Mammalia, that in South America a native horse should have lived and disapp... ...f North and South America. The South American character of the West Indian mammals* seems to indicate that this archipelago was formerly united to the...

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...d at first no more than one of several varieties of clambering frugivorous mammals, a little distinguished by a disposition to help his clumsy walking...

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...o touched that she cried. “Ilusha, darling, he’s the one who loves his mammal” she said tenderly, and at once began wheeling the cannon to and fro...