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Saturday, 26 November 2011
The Secret Life of the Monito del Monte
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There are something like a hundred species of marsupial in South America; hardly an insignificant amount. As I've mentioned before , t...
Thursday, 24 November 2011
News in Brief #2
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Columbian ground squirrel The Wooing Ways of Ground Squirrels Male animals will go a long way to ensure that they become the father f...
Sunday, 20 November 2011
When Whales Walked the Land
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Protocetus , a close relative of the new species The Eocene, the second epoch of the Age of Mammals, was a time of many strange creature...
Sunday, 13 November 2011
Weasels on the Riverbank: Mink
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European mink While most are still terrestrial, the long sinuous bodies of weasels are easily adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Within th...
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Why Marsupials Can't Fly
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A sugar glider is as close as it gets... One of the significant features in the early evolution of mammals was the development of a diff...
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Sunday, 30 October 2011
On the Origin of Tigers
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South China tiger, perhaps the most primitive living subspecies The tiger ( Panthera tigris ) is surely one of the most iconic of all m...
Sunday, 23 October 2011
The Mother Elk's Dilemma
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A male elk Giving birth and looking after newborn young are particularly dangerous times for the large hoofed herbivores. That isn't...
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