Naked is the best disguise. Jeanette Winterson The Uroplatus genus contains 14 species that are endemic to Madagascar. As with many genera on Madagascar – it represents a stunning range of ecological expansion and biodiversity. Having been isolated from mainland Africa for over 60 million years, speciation has had time to peg the meter in Madagascar. This […]
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I saw him, quite by chance, among The Crowding leaves. He didn’t lift His head as he pored over his wood-text. Ashamed of the binocular intrusion, Like breath on eggs or love pressed too far, I’m trying to pretend I never saw him. –The Nuthatch, Bernard O’Donoghue This is a small, energetic songbird that can
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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
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Mount Rainier contains the most luxuriant and the most extravagantly beautiful of all the alpine gardens I ever beheld in all my mountain-top wanderings. John Muir, 1889. Western anemone is a perennial herb with a tap-rooted, woody stem and base found in the subalpine and alpine zone of the western US and Canada. It stands erect
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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
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