New and forthcoming books that are worthy of attention but that have not been fully reviewed.
In The Owl That Fell from the Sky, Dr. Brian Gill, Curator of Land Vertebrates at Aukland’s War Memorial Museum recounts some of the astonishing histories of fifteen specimens presently housed in some of New Zealand’s finest natural history collections.
Of all the creatures with which humans share the planet, few have demonstrated the physical variation of Canis lupus. As C. lupus it is the Grey Wolf, as C. lupus dingo it is the wild dog of the Australian outback, and as C. lupus familiaris it is everything from a one-hundred-seventy pound Bull Mastiff to my ten pound Havanese.
As ants are ubiquitous, active, fascinating, and generally quite easy to watch, they are often one of the first creatures a young budding naturalist comes to discover. Unfortunately, much of the literature about them is written by those who already have a considerable level of understanding of these creatures (the ants, not the budding naturalists) […]
In his Aspects of the Novel, E.M. Forster famously wrote “’The king died and then the queen died’” is a story. ‘The king died, and then the queen died of grief’ is a plot.” While Elizabeth Gehman’s Rare Birds: The Extraordinary Tale of the Bermuda Petrel and the Man Who Brought It Back from Extinction is […]