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Rift Valley Shuffle
January 1, 1999... Lake-hopping flamingos in Kenya dance to the beat of microscopic algae The lesser flamingos of East Africa have always been a capricious bunch. Even in the best of times, a million or more of these pink waders will abandon one of the region's...
Soldiers in the Gorilla War
January 1, 1999... Norbert Mushenzi and the rangers of Virunga National Park brave war and hunger in defense of Congo's rare primates Norbert Mushenzi stood in eerie silence near the ransacked buildings of Virunga National Park's district office at Djomba. From...
Five Days with Fat Hoods
January 1, 1999... In a race for survivial, newborn hooded seals gorge on the richest milk on Earth A nursery of hooded seals is a risky, evanescent place: a white layer of drifting ice pushed by heavy winds of the northern seas. Storms buckle and break the...
Taming the Mekong, Killing the Past
January 1, 1999... Will backers of more than 200 proposed hydro projects in Southeast Asia learn any lessons from the flawed Pak Mun Dam in Thailand? A full moon sinks, and night still obscures the flanking jungled cliffs. But already boats glide like phantoms...
World's Biggest Fish
January 1, 1999... Why tourists and researchers are flocking to Western Australia to swim with school-bus-sized whale sharks My god, look at the size of that one," shouts skipper Mark Small. An enormous gray shadow as big as a bus passes silently by the bow of...
From Gorillas to Sharks: Firsthand Adventures (2).(writers' and photograhers' works on animal behavior)(Brief Article)
January 1, 1999... Reporting on animal behavior or on the big issues facing a troubled species often demands that our writers and photographers journey to remote and sometimes dangerous places. The payoff for being on scene: special insights that help bring a...