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1 online resource (xxi, 279 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: NATURALISTS AFIELD-A LIFETIME OF CURIOSITY; CHAPTER 1. AMASSED NATURE; Turtle Shingling; Hackberry Happenings; Japanese Invasion; Yellow-Headed Roost; Outback Caper; Brazilian Caterpillars; Monarchs in Mexico; Kicking Up a Storm; Mite Carpet; Pelagic!; Milkweed Mass; Clown Invasion; Emergence!; The Red and Green Show; CHAPTER 2. ENVIRONMENTAL FLUIDS; May 28, 2011; Herptile Sipping; Fragrant Fields; Spiders, Striders, Hexagons & Halos; CHAPTER 3. HIDDEN WORLDS; Attract or Repulse?; Supernormal Stimulus. |
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The Egret and the FlyYard Bot; Reality versus Book Learnin'; Acorn Weevil; Hidden Tigers; An Unlikely Pair; Sundew Drama; Fickle Evolution; Stink Bug Babies; Mr. Jackman's Bog; Aquatic Christmas Ornaments; Psychophily; The Thin Ones; CHAPTER 4. MOMENTS IN TIME; Grumpy Spiders; Frog Relief; Lorikeet Lure; A Good Thwonking!; Sex on the Fly; Touched from Above; Sands of the Falklands; Frolic in the Colic; An Encounter with Extinction; The Leather Purse; Capturing Mystery; The Blue Beech; CHAPTER 5. PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; Hidden Rainbows; Seasonal Lines; Tomorrow's Fossil; Goblins; Superior Ice. |
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Lights, Action, Camera!CHAPTER 6. SELDOM WITNESSED; Cormorant Rookery; Always at Trail's End; Beaver Sign; Winter Stoneflies; Victoria's Secret; High Salamander; Hoatzin Lineup; Down the Hatch; Demons in the Dust; The Last Ottoe?; Gulls at Play; Chitinous Snack; Snake Dance; From Above; Turkey Tango; CHAPTER 7. TRULY BIZARRE; Beetle Playground; Trilobites Today?; Did I Just See That?; The Scream; Colorful Katydids; Scavenger Hunt; Worm Circles; Size Does Matter; Sixty-Minute Cruise; Life List-Yes or No?; CHAPTER 8. JUST BE CURIOUS; Bee-eaters!; Capybara Encounters; Welwitschia!; The Stalker. |
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Lady's Slippers for Sale!Flying Squirrel Café; To See a Giant Otter; CHAPTER 9. WHO KNEW?; All Things Connected; The Gingko Effect; Green Feathers; Paz Tale; Olympic-Size Pan Trap; Mixed Marriage?; Ménage à Trois; Lost Ivory; Ottie and Bokkie; Toy Salamander; Endemic Family; A Change of Heart; Travel Hazards; Learning from Leopold; CHAPTER 10. BE PREPARED; Cock-of-the-Rock; Vanessa!; Beautiful Musk; Bison Migration; Rapacious!; CONCLUSION: THE END OF THE LANE; EPILOGUE: UNEXPECTED SURPRISES; GLOSSARY; REFERENCES; INDEX. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Natural history -- Miscellanea.
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Natural history -- Miscellanea. |
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Curiosities and wonders.
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Curiosities and wonders. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Post, Susan L., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jeffords, Michael R. Curious encounters with the natural world. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2017] 9780252082665 (DLC) 2016054029 |
| ISBN |
9780252099670 (electronic book) |
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0252099672 (electronic book) |
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9780252082665 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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