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Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.
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― The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
― The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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It is hypocritical to exhort the Brazilians to conserve their rainforest after we have already destroyed the grassland ecosystem that occupied half the continent when we found it. A large-scale grassland restoration project would give us some moral authority when we seek conservation abroad.
I must admit that I also like the idea because it would mean a better home for pronghorn, currently pushed by agriculture into marginal habitats-The high sagebrush deserts of the West. I would love to retu
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― Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn
― Built for Speed: A Year in the Life of Pronghorn
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