Pained lobsters, monkey fight clubs, and the formidable tail-mounted weaponry of prehistoric animals – this week’s episode of CBC’s “Quirks & Quarks” with Bob McDonald has quite a lot of interesting natural history content in it.
Monkey Fight Club?
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Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders
I’ll be honest, having read Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice’s four books about ants and found them to be absolutely brilliant, I may have actually squealed (in a manly, dignified way, of course) with glee upon learning of the publication by University of Chicago Press of her new “Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Spiders.”
The Chesapeake in Focus
For as long as I can remember, most every bit of American history I’ve ever read has in one way or another led back to the Chesapeake Bay. Which makes it rather unfortunate that, like many life-long westerners, I’ve never once set eyes upon it.
A Naturalist at Large
The first books of natural history I can recall reading were David Quammen’s “Natural Acts” and Bernd Heinrich’s “Ravens in Winter.” While I know I had read others before, these two stick in my mind due to the power each of them had to demand that I look more deeply at the world around me and ask not just “what” but “why?”