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International Wildlife archives from March 1998
The importance of getting clean. (grooming behavior in animals)(Cover Story)
March 1, 1998... There's a lot more to scratching, rubbing, preening, licking, nibbling and bathing than meets the eye
What makes a male meadow vole stop whatever he is doing and rub his furry little body with his paws for an average of 23 seconds?
1. An...
Expedition to the clouds. (search for new species in an unexplored Peruvian forest)
March 1, 1998... What it's like to search for new species in an unexplored Peruvian jungle
On day one, our Peruvian army M-17 helicopter diverts to pick up a soldier wounded by Shining Path guerrillas. On day two, thundering deluges send the chopper cowering...
Beauty in the beast. (photos of spotted hyenas and pertinent facts about their behavior and physiology)
March 1, 1998... Ugly killers, yes, but do spotted hyenas deserve the scorn we've heaped upon them?
A dirty brute, declared a thirteenth-century bestiary. An unnatural mix of feline and canine, concluded Sir Walter Raleigh in 1614. The nocturnal steed of...
Dark times for Cuba's Sabal palms. (endangered trees of Zapata Swamp)
March 1, 1998... In the great Zapata Swamp, both birds and people covet these "sticks with punk hairdos"
Carajo! Lost again. Trudging through the oppressive heat in Cuba's Zapata Swamp, I search for the Cuban parrot nest I discovered the day before in the...
Celestial visions. (fairy tern bird)
March 1, 1998... On some tropical islands, the fairy tern is known as the Holy Ghost bird
The fairy tern is a celestial vision: Its silky plumage pure white, its slender wings translucent, its large, black-rimmed eyes the deepest midnight blue. When one hovers...
Making men into fish. (ocean diver Jacques Cousteau recalls his first use of the aqualung he co-invented with Emile Gagnan)
March 1, 1998... One morning in June, 1 went to the railway station at Bandol on the French Riviera an received a wooden case expressed from Paris. In it was a new and promising device, the result of years of struggle an dreams, an automatic compressed air diving...