International Wildlife articles from September 1995

International Wildlife archives from September 1995

The day the earth blew. (Galapagos Islands' Fernandina volcano)
September 1, 1995... Our roving editor joins the exotic creatures of the Galapagos Islands as a volcano re-forms their landscapes Like enraged demons, blobs of molten rock plunge into the sea just 15 meters (50 ft.) from where I perch on the edge of a cliff. Sparks...

Feathering his nest. (trapper Louis Nielsen)
September 1, 1995... Trapper Louis Nielsen makes a living by collecting down from sea duck nests on a remote Arctic island June brings summer to the Svalbard archipelago, a sprawling chain of islands in the high Arctic 800 kilometers (500 mi.) above the...

Quest for the kouprey.
September 1, 1995... In the steaming forests of Indochina, scientists brave guerrilla warfare and risk their lives in search of a vanishing species The forest shadows were spreading quickly as dusk overtook the long, tiring day that Le Vu Khoi had spent searching...

The importance of being flashy. (feathers)
September 1, 1995... Sure those fancy feathers drive her wild, but are they worth the trouble? Peacocks' tails have long baffled evolutionary biology. Clearly peahens love them - the bigger and brighter, the better. But it's hard to figure what possible advantage...

Poisons in the air. (air pollution)
September 1, 1995... From the day she was born until her death less than a year later, Kazue Doi coughed blood. Her mother, Eiko, who lives in Kawasaki, Japan, still does. What killed the infant and crippled her mother was a sulfurous haze of air pollution.......

Pride and joy. (a lion family in Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve)(Cover Story)(Illustration)
September 1, 1995... Relative Peace Guarded by a 300-pound female relative, a lion cub yawns as if it hasn't a care in the world. A cub's best chance for survival is its pride, made up of parents, grandmothers, aunts, uncles and cousins. Mothers keep their...