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...short to wield a heavy club effectively. For another million years or so, his brain was not developed enough to conceive of fashioning stone weapons. Yet despite the presence of far more powerful four-legged adversaries on the African savannas, he survived. Now a Dutch zoologist, Adriaan Kortlandt of the University of Amsterdam, has proposed an intriguing answer. In the current Journal of Human Evolution, he suggests that early man was able to use thorny branches to repel the most dangerous predators: large carnivorous cats...
...program is the centerpiece of an Israeli effort to protect endangered desert species and repopulate the land of the Bible with the animals that inhabited it during ancient times. Thus even such creatures as jackals and wolves, which are anathema to farmers, enjoy the benefits of government largesse. Says Zoologist Giora Ilany, 40: "If these animals are not saved, this country would look like the face of the moon...
...Gerald Durrell can help it. The zoologist has long maintained a sanctuary for endangered species on the English Channel Island of Jersey and has scoured the world to collect threatened birds, mammals and reptiles. In his latest book, he wittily describes his efforts to help the nonhuman population of Mauritius and neighboring islands. Durrell's adventures have an engaging lunacy that relieves their underlying tension. He and his party risked bites from golden fruit bats that objected to the indignity of having their private parts probed so their would-be saviors could ascertain their sex. They suffered seasickness...
...birders" who ever get a chance to see these magnificent creatures close up is Zoologist Won Pyong Oh, director of the Institute of Ornithology at South Korea's Kyung Hee University. Five times each winter, Won, 52, makes a well-advertised venture into the DMZ under the watchful eyes of soldiers on both sides of the line in order to observe and photograph the monogamous cranes in their elaborate mating rituals, which include wing flapping, bows and leaps into the air. "The Americans get very nervous," explains Won, who makes his perch right on the Military Demarcation Line...
...still in the classics business; Ovid's Ars Amatoria, Book I, for example, is a recent offering. But the Oxford imprint now spans all of human knowledge, from the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary (floccinaucinihilipilification, the act of estimating as worthless) to tomes as obscure as Zoologist Arthur Young's Anatomy of the Nervous System of Octopus Vulgaris, which sells 15 copies a year. The largest academic press in the world, Oxford has 3,000 staffers working in Britain and in 23 overseas branches from New York to Nigeria. It sells some $88 million each year...