International Wildlife articles from January 1996

International Wildlife archives from January 1996

Journey into the cold unknown. (expedition to the Antarctic seas)
January 1, 1996... Our writer joins the first winter expedition ever into Antarctica's Amundsen and Ross Seas Like a Magic Galleon sailing over a frozen white landscape, a ship longer than a football field glides through eerie ice fields that stretch to the...

Charisma! (charisma in animals)
January 1, 1996... That certain special something - why some species have it and what it means for saving them The polar bear has it. So do the giant panda and blue whale. Even the great white shark has a certain je ne sais qoi. Call it animal magnetism. Just...

Some call them feathered rats. (pigeons)
January 1, 1996... But a Montreal researcher is discovering complexity and beauty in the world of the Urban Pigeon We've all met those intrepid scientists (if only in magazine stories and TV documentaries) who study rare animals in the world's far corners,...

A cabbage grows in Langa. (greening of the Langa township in South Africa)
January 1, 1996... If you want to prove you can bring greenery to South Africa's black townships, why not start with the worst location you can find? When Thobeka Thamage chose the worst South African black township slum she could find - Langa, 25 kilometers (16...

Single, lonely parrot seeks companionship. (preservation of the Spix's macaw)
January 1, 1996... male Spix's macaw, South American, mostly blue, last of his kind. Wants female for connubial bliss, nesting. Open to blind dates arranged by scientists and bird collectors. Late one afternoon in Curaca, a sunbaked village in the northeast...