International Wildlife articles from July 1994

International Wildlife archives from July 1994

Wild leopards we have known.
July 1, 1994... Two wildlife photographers recount the weeks they spent with a leopard named Half Tail in one of Kenya's premier parks THE MORNING IS COOL and ominously dark in western Kenya. Since daybreak my wife and I have been closely watching one of...

Fabric of life. (Kuna Indians of Panama and their molas)
July 1, 1994... Animals talk to the Kuna Indians of northeastern Panama, and sometimes they even do it in the Kuna's own language. Accustomed to hearing Kuna voices in the forest, wild parrots have been known to mimic their human neighbors from tree branches....

A tale of two sisters. (how two different banks bring opposite results to two sisters in Bangladesh)
July 1, 1994... Near the town of Bhuapur in central Bangladesh, the of two sisters are undergoing radical change, for the worse, one for the better. This is the tale of their pain and joy. It is also the story of how two vastly different kinds of banks--one a...

Of pandas and principles. (field biologist and wildlife conservationist George Schaller)
July 1, 1994... With the logic of science and the art of persuasion, world-renowned zoologist George Schaller has shaped wildlife protection around the globe ONE MORNING IN 1963 wildlife biologist George Schaller and his wife, Kay, crouched in a blind on...

Charley's ark. (wildlife artist Charley Harper)
July 1, 1994... "When I was a fledging, "recalls Charley Harper," I fell out of a second-story window of our nest in West Virginia and hit my head on a stump. Didn't seem to hurt me, so nobody thought much about it until a few years later, when I announced...

Lost in time. (botanist Douglas Larson's discovery of the oldest intact forest ecosystem in eastern North America)
July 1, 1994... Douglas Larson tall and lean, with rakish black beard and a pirate's aquiline nose, is a botanist with a mission--a tough, hard, perhaps even thankless mission. He wants to elevate the value that society places on plant life and to dispel the...

Colors of the sea.
July 1, 1994... You can never find a shark when you need one, so photographer Greg Brown and a friend were cutting up bait underwater to attract big predators for the camera. Suddenly the knife slipped and sliced into the friend's hand. What Brown recalls most...