1. It takes two to tango: These inhabitants of the sea are best known for their "mating dance." Couples swim together and hold tails -- matching each other's movements. The male curls his tail around her torso, and they tango. She, in a twist-and-turn maneuver, ...
Web Sites "Eating Among Friends" - National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/nationalwildlife/article.cfm?issueID=80&articleId;=1193 Cannibalism among animals may be more prevalent than you think. "This Can't Be Love" - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/science/05cann.html More information on the gruesome mating practices of the praying mantis and its relative, the ...
Web Sites Operation Migration http://www.operationmigration.org/index.html The pioneering migration pilots featured in NATURE's "Flight School." Get updates on the birds, watch video clips, and find out how you can get involved. National Wildlife Federation: Whooping Cranes http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/whoopingcrane/ Learn amazing whooper facts, see how a baby whooper ...
As a young boy, Canadian sculptor William Lishman wanted to be a military pilot. Vision problems grounded that dream, but he did eventually take up flying ultralight aircraft. And in 1988, he made ornithological and aviation history by leading a flock of 12 Canada geese ...
Rural children have who raised ducks or geese have long known about "imprinting" -- or socially bonding to a parent figure. They learned that if they were the first moving object seen by newborn chicks, the young birds would soon follow them around devotedly. Many ...
They are the superhighways of the sky. Biologists call them "flyways," and each spring and fall billions of birds hit these atmospheric roads for their annual migrations, which can stretch thousands of miles. The sandhill and whooping cranes seen on NATURE's Flight School, for instance, ...
Whooping cranes learn survival lessons from human surrogate parents on NATURE's Flight School. At five-feet tall, with a wing span of nearly 8 feet, whooping cranes are among the largest and most beautiful birds of North America. But hunting and other forms of human encroachment ...
Of the 4,000 or so species of mammals, only a handful of animals have ever been thought to mate for life. This short list of animals includes among others: gibbon apes, wolves, coyotes, barn owls, bald eagles, gorillas and barn swallows. But as it turns ...
WEB SITES Photographer Tom Murphy http://www.tmurphywild.com/ Murphy is a modern-day explorer who captures Yellowstone in remarkable photographs. Wintertime activities in Yellowstone National Park http://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/winteract.htm This Web site will help with winter trip-planning to Yellowstone. Yellowstone Association http://www.yellowstoneassociation.org/ A nonprofit organization dedicated to educating visitors by ...
