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Animals articles from March 1998
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Animals archives from March 1998
Northern islands in a southern sea: a flying squirrel hangs on in the cool peaks of Appalachia.(Brief Article)
March 1, 1998... On cloudy days, the Appalachian peaks along the North Carolina-Tennessee border protrude through the layers of mist like blue islands. Swept by high atmospheric currents, these ridges have a climate more in common with New England than with...
Salamander rains: spring showers bring masses of yellow-spotted salamanders out to mate.
March 1, 1998... Up in Warner, New Hampshire, David Carroll is waiting. "It's like the night before Christmas," says the swamp-loving author and illustrator. He keeps his radio tuned to the weather and keeps his hip waders by the door.
Down in Lunenburg,...
Plight of Africa's wild dogs.
March 1, 1998... In 1906, a few years after Cecil Rhodes grabbed southern Rhodesia from the Shona and Matabele people, the British government began paying a 10-shilling bounty for each African wild dog killed. Settlers on the high veld were ranching cattle,...
Flight of the condor revisited: absent from Arizona skies for more than seven decades, condors make a comeback.
March 1, 1998... On a dark night in May 1997, Amy Nicholas eases a truck up a rough road of sand and rocks to a wild plateau above Arizona's Vermillion Cliffs. Here, the previous winter, six young California condors were released into the wild. Nicholas is a...
The heart of a hero: on one leg, Joe Nolfo stands tall to help animals in need.
March 1, 1998... On June 2, 1996, Joe Nolfo broke the world record for the longest uninterrupted distance swim, logging 30 miles in 15 hours and 43 minutes. Not willing to rest on this accomplishment, Nolfo, who has only one leg, used the event as a...
Eye to Eye: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World.
March 1, 1998... One summer, while nature photographer Frans Landing was traveling the northwest coast of North America, a Kwakiutl elder took him to a sacred cave.
Long ago, the elder said, all the animals in the world were the same. Though they looked...