In the spring of 1498, seamen sailing with Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama on his historic voyage from Europe to India were astonished to discover a flock of large swimming birds leaping like porpoises from the deep waters off Southern Africa. The remarkable creatures, one ...
Scientific researchers are not the only people who have had trouble moving through the rainforest. Bernard Walton, a BBC producer, spent many months trekking through Gabon while making Mask of the Mandrill. "It can be quite horrendous, especially when it is raining a lot," Walton ...
Not much is known about how mandrills behave in the wild, says Dr. Alan Dixson, a zoologist at Cambridge University and scientific advisor to the NATURE program Mask of the Mandrill. With their vivid blue and red facial and rump accents, mandrills are the most ...
Pig: any of the animals in the genus Sus. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Artiodactyla Family: | Suidae Subfamily: | Suinae Genus: | Sus Pigs include domestic pigs and their ancestor, the common Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa), ...
NATURE's The Joy of Pigs explores the extraordinary variety and success of these often misunderstood mammals. Pigs may be in vogue today among filmmakers and Beverly Hills society matrons, who stroll around with potbellied porkers while shopping on Rodeo Drive. But this ubiquitous animal has ...
Some octopi are extremely dangerous. Snakes are not the only creatures that use venom to capture their dinners and ward off enemies. As you see in Victims of Venom, scorpions, shrews, spiders, insects, salamanders, and even some types of plants also use poisonous venoms. Many ...
There are not many people in the world who know more about snakes and snake venom than Bill Haast does. After all, Haast, director of the Miami Serpentarium, has been bitten by venomous snakes more than 160 times -- and lived to tell the tale. ...
Web Sites The Jane Goodall Institute http://www.janegoodall.org Includes basic biographical information on Jane Goodall and chimp-related links. Discover Chimpanzees http://www.discoverchimpanzees.org The home page of the Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies. Primate Image Collection http://www.primate.wisc.edu/pin/images/chimps.html Chimpanzee images from the Audiovisual Archive Wisconsin Regional Primate ...
When Jane Goodall arrived there in 1960, Tanzania's Gombe Stream National Park was just one parcel of forest amidst a vast sea of trees. Today, however, as shown in JANE GOODALL'S WILD CHIMPANZEES, it is a small green island engulfed by farms, fields, and villages. ...
