International Wildlife articles from November 1996

International Wildlife archives from November 1996

Puffin talk.
November 1, 1996... Packed together in dense breeding colonies, these social seabirds communicate in all sorts of ways They arrive on land from the great unknown vastness of the North Atlantic, where they live from mid-August to mid-April. Perhaps clued in by the...

What is a tree shrew? Until mammologist Louise Emmons got involved, even scientists had only the vaguest idea.
November 1, 1996... Until mammalogist Louise Emmons got involved, even scientists had only the vaguest idea ON A MOONLESS NIGHT in northern Borneo, ecologist Louise Emmons steps into the black maw of the rain forest and disappears. The air is steamy. Insects are...

Showdown in Zimbabwe: in the nation that once held Africa's greatest concentration of black rhinos, private citizens struggle to save th last of the animals.
November 1, 1996... In the nation that once held Africa's greatest concentration of black rhinos, private citizens struggle to save the last of the animals Sunrise has just touched this remote corner of southeastern Zimbabwe. Shouldering his rifle, Kenneth...

Into the last grizzly strongholds.(Ian McAllister takes census of British Columbia's grizzly bears)
November 1, 1996... Armed only with a camera and pepper spray, Ian McAllister maps the haunts of British Columbia's biggest bears Along British Columbia's Mussel River a quarter-ton grizzly saunters toward a centuries-old western hemlock that has been rubbed by...

Black mamba! Meet the African species that one expert calls 'death incarnate.'
November 1, 1996... Meet the African species that one expert calls 'death incarnate' or much of my life I lived quite happily with the vaguely held notion that a mamba was a type of Latin American dance step. I learned of my error one evening beside a campfire in...

In search of the Ziebell's handfish.(submarine photographs by Fred Bavendam)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1996... An accomplished cold-water diver focuses his camera on Tasmania's unique underwater world Diving from the side of a boat positioned off a coast of sheer cliffs, photographer Fred Bavendam plunged through a layer of tidal surge, then sank down...

The voyage of the Beagle.(excerpt from Charles Darwin's journal)
November 1, 1996... This [Galapagos] archipelago consists of ten principal islands, of which five exceed the others in size. They are situated under the Equator, and between five and six hundred miles westward of the coast of America. They are all formed of volcanic...