International Wildlife articles from May 1995

International Wildlife archives from May 1995

Embattled behemoths. (whales)
May 1, 1995... Pollution and other tough issues have replaced whaling as the main challenge for whale survival During summer 1994, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) sent a team of spotters into the chill, dark waters of the Gulf of Alaska in...

Open season on the woolly mammoth.
May 1, 1995... This Ice Age elephant may be long extinct, but the hunt for its treasured ivory continues Thirty thousand years ago, while an ice age chilled much of Europe, a herd of woolly mammoths moved along a tributary of the Danube River in what today...

Dangling on a rope. (wildlife writer Mary Roach)
May 1, 1995... Dropping wrenches, dodging bees, strolling in paradise, Mary Roach climbed high to bring rain-forest issues alive When she wrote about killer bees, she got stung. When she wrote about Sumo wrestlers' diets, she flew to Tokyo to eat with a team....

Why I like jumping spiders.
May 1, 1995... Their big eyes and engaging behavior make them the teddy bears of the spider world. They can ever watch TV. Putting in a good word for the Earth's maligned creatures is, it seems, one of the duties of biologists like myself. So when marine...

On the trail of Russia's leopards.
May 1, 1995... Along the eastern edge of Siberia, a band of scientists learns critical lessons from an endangered cat named Svetlana July 1993. Female leopard, three or four years old, captured on the night of 23 June. Immobilization completed with blow gun...

Poles apart: same play, different actors. (penguins and alcids)
May 1, 1995... Penguins and their northern counterparts, the alcids, are all cold-loving, fish-gulping birds, but they live in different worlds NORTH Bill colors loud as lipsticks proclaim that breeding season has begun for horned puffins in the northern...