International Wildlife articles from January 1995

International Wildlife archives from January 1995

To swim with pelicans.
January 1, 1995... A photographer catches a fish-eye view of the masters of the feeding frenzy WATCHING FROM THE SHORE as brown pelicans dive didn't fully prepare me for what happens beneath the water. There's a hidden frenzy, and this year I managed to see it...

Sliding into elephants.
January 1, 1995......and other workaday events from the life of painter Alan Hunt ALAN HUNT CAN TELL YOU how not to go bird-watching. He and painter Judi Kent Pyrah, now his wife, were jouncing around Kenya in a truck when they came to a river that was drying...

Tracking the Gobi's last wild bears and camels.
January 1, 1995... An American scientist explores a remote Mongolian desert and finds rare animals in a harsh land THE GOBI DESERT--it is a name that enchants, a place that, for naturalists, evokes visions of carnivorous velociraptors and lumbering...

Memories of your embrace. (Pacific giant octopus) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1995... An underwater photographer recalls life and times with the Pacific giant octopus BENEATH THE WATER'S surface, some 17 meters (55 ft.) deep, the afternoon light of a February day muted into twilight. Nevertheless, the blue-green sea around...

Bamboo is back.
January 1, 1995... WHEN INTERIOR DESIGNER Linda Garland left her London home to visit Bali, Indonesia, nearly 20 years ago, she fell in love with the island, the people--and the bamboo. Enthralled with the myriad ways the Balinese used the graceful plant in...