This category contains all works pertaining to the life sciences.
To write that I’m pleased that Seabrooke Leckie’s “Moths of Western North America” has finally been brought to publication by Princeton University Press is like writing that Henry VIII had minor marital commitment challenges; I’m positively giddy with excitement about it.
Some years ago, I failed to make a planned journey to India as I caught a nasty case of the flu just before I was scheduled to depart. Because of this, I didn’t get to use the copy of Princeton University Press’ “Birds of India” that I had been studying for two months prior in preparation for the trip.
For those interested in discovering and learning about the truly remarkable evolutionary story of the Proboscideans, the new “Elephants and Their Fossil Relatives: A 60 Million Year Journey” by Asier Larramendi and Marco P. Ferretti is a book well worthy of note.
When I first took up birdwatching, any mention I heard, any reference I read, any non-verbal cue I perceived regarding the European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) – at least when in regard to their existence in North America – was universally negative. “Trash birds!” was a common epithet. “Ought to be exterminated” and “invasive” were two […]