Mammals

In return the Indians would receive two glass beads for every loaf of cassava bread they supplied; two lace points for two hutia, the large rodents Christopher’s crew had eaten on Colba during his second voyage; maize, or other items they supplied.  –Christopher Columbus Across the Ocean, Janet and Geoff Benge. This is one of […]

There is nothing more exciting than finding a new thing nobody knows. You won’t believe it, but everything hasn’t already been discovered.”  Patricia Wright. his is a medium sized lemur native to a small area on the island of Madagascar.  It is diurnal, most active during the day with discrete rest periods between mid-morning and

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are

In a frigid land that we humans often fear to tread,Lies an ecosystem that almost anyone would dread.Throughout this region, where gale force winds blow,Lives a tiny creature hidden against the blinding snow. —Glen Bergen, The Arctic Fox As is implied by its common name, this is a fox of the northern climes with a

Possessed of keen sight and scent, and strong limbs, he dwells secure amid the loftiest summits, leaping unscathed from crag to crag, up and down the fronts of giddy precipices, crossing foaming torrents and slopes of frozen snow, exposed to the wildest storms, yet maintaining a brave, warm life, and developing from generation to generation