Natural Selections: The African Wanderings of a Bemused NaturalistJuta and Company Ltd, 2002 - 305 Seiten It soon became clear that Africa was far more than political skulduggery, starving refugees and mind-numbingly overcrowded cities. It was also full of the most astounding creatures on earth that did the damnest things. Did you know that albatrosses use howling jet streams to criss-cross the planet? Or that dams cause earthquakes? Or maybe that most seahorses dance at dawn? the author writes in the preface of this extraordinary title. |
Inhalt
Notes from heaven | 4 |
In search of the strange ΤΟ | 10 |
Ballets of catastrophe | 18 |
Travelling the trails of Xam | 30 |
Above the sea of mountains | 40 |
Into the sands of silence | 47 |
Naturally Nyalaland | 56 |
Into the forbidden desert | 81 |
Ships of the desert | 184 |
Wild steeds of the desert | 190 |
Monkey business | 196 |
Lords of the trees | 205 |
The long dark road of the cave cricket | 212 |
Worker in a science yet unborn | 220 |
Caves of antiquity | 227 |
The madness of a collector | 234 |
Superpilots | 94 |
Our one big mistake | 100 |
Parliaments poached penguin eggs and the Great | 108 |
Angels of the night | 115 |
Balancing acts on the edge of extinction | 123 |
Sinking gannets and the mystery of a feather | 130 |
Everything but an eyebiter | 138 |
Lords of the sea | 144 |
Snail hunting in the mother lake | 156 |
Neptunes little ponies | 164 |
Wild orchestras of the night | 176 |
look your mouth and it be sweet | 241 |
Some lessons on dreaming the world | 250 |
The river makers | 256 |
Galactic ecology | 264 |
The strange history of a fix | 271 |
God dam crazy | 279 |
Just sniffing around | 288 |
An enthusiasm for fire | 294 |
Of rain and reflections | 301 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Africa ancient animals appeared arrived asked bats beautiful become began begin birds camel camp Cape caused cave cent creatures dark dead developed drop dune earth eyes feathers fire fish flying followed forest frogs give hand headed horses huge human hundred interesting island it's kilometres known Lake land later leaves light live looked metres million mind mountains mouth move named natural never night Orange paintings park plant probably problem rain reason river road rock round sand seemed sharks side simply single soon sound South southern species stars story strange There's things thought thousands took town tracks trees trip turned University valley walking wall whole wild wonder