Gruesome Photos of Japanese Whale "Processing"
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Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2015
Offshore Sea Life ID Guide: West Coast is designed to be a quick, handy resource for use on whale watching and one-day pelagic trips. It made an identification process I had always found challenging into one that was rational, focused, and even fun. We saw two Blue Whales on our trip, quickly identified by the boat’s crew.
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Come@Me: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle
10,000 Birds
JUNE 27, 2018
For example, “the Ungulata include hooved animals with multi-chambered stomachs, except the whales.”. Rather, cladistics is a way of looking at the process of evolution of species. A term like “hooved animals” is monophyletic and a perfectly sound adaptive group, except for the whales. Sometimes the exceptions are spectacular.
Offshore Sea Life: East Coast, Birds of Pennsylvania, & Texas Birds: Three Books, Three Reviews
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
A little longer than its predecessor (by eight pages to be exact), the East Coast guide is your handy dandy, pocket-sized, all-in-one guide to the seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, and other creatures you are likely to encounter on pelagics or whale watching trips, from Bar Harbor, Maine to Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida.
Galápagos: A Natural History, Second Edition–A Book Review
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
The next five chapters focus more specifically on Galápagos creatures: huge tortoises; iguanas; birds (two chapters–one on seabirds and coastal birds, another on land birds, including the famous finches); water creatures–sea lions, crabs, fish, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, and porpoises.
Bird-Eating Fish
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2013
The fish charge at the shore and virtually beach themselves in an effort to grab the unwary birds, in the style of a Crocodile taking a Wildebeest or a Killer Whale taking a pinniped. Some (but not most) killer whales beach themselves on land or ice to get at sea mammals or penguins, and some dolphins do similar things. Boulêtreau, S.,
Unflappable by Suzie Gilbert–An Author Interview
10,000 Birds
MARCH 27, 2020
What was that process like? author’s note: Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild, from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale by Ted Williams, is due out in late April, published by Storey Publ.]) How would you describe your writing style? Energetic. I like to keep things moving. Hell on wheels!
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