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In *A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals*, a Moor hunting in a forest met two lion cubs, stopped to share his breakfast with them, and watched as their mother brought back a sheep and laid it at his feet. He skinned the sheep, made a fire, roasted part of it, and gave the entrails to the cubs. The antholo...
ViewA bat’s wing can feel which way the air is moving. In big brown bats, tiny wing hairs feed sensory information to the brain. In an experiment, many recorded neurons responded most strongly when air flowed from the wing’s back edge towards its front....
View*The World of Wonders* reproduces a report from a 1756 *Gentleman’s Magazine* and calls the sight at Tuam, Ireland, an apparent aurora borealis. On 2 January, around four in the afternoon, an extraordinary light, described as brighter than the brightest day, astonished onlookers before gradually fad...
ViewThe aye-aye’s strangest finger isn’t its only tool. A study of four of these lemurs found the thin third finger suited precise probing, and the stronger fourth suited scooping and deeper access. Their uses overlapped....
ViewPhone photo printers in 2026: stickers, small keepsakes or 4×6 prints? Canon IVY 2, SELPHY QX20 and CP1500 turn a camera roll into three very different kinds of print. Buying guide · Researched September 27, 2026. Prices, where shown, are USD before tax and delivery; stock and regional availability ...
ViewA feather-lined hole isn't always a nursery. Naturalist Richard Kearton found three lined cavities in a thatched roof. He returned after dark: a male house sparrow occupied each one. The birds were sleeping there....
ViewOne ant failed to free a trapped companion, then ran off. Naturalist Thomas Belt, who had trapped the ant under clay, thought the helper had given up. Soon, about a dozen ants arrived and freed it. Leaving was not the end of the rescue....
ViewWildlife photographers built a fake tree. A mouse used its ties for a nest. The Kearton brothers left their disguise rolled up in a garden for a week or so. When they returned, much of the nest inside was made from the strings used to tie the disguise together....
ViewBingo fetched the cow—and took her straight home By Adapted from Ernest Thompson Seton Bingo had learned a job on the Manitoba prairie: fetch the yellow cow. At the command, the dog would race out across the grass and drive Dunne home to her stable. He did it with much more energy than anyone needed...
ViewThe roots grew outward on an upright wheel, and outward plus downward on a horizontal one. Orientation changed the result. Which way will the roots grow? Seeds rode on two spinning wheels: one upright, one flat. The roots took different directions. Upright wheel: roots point out Roots grew away from...
ViewA one-inch mussel, a four-pound breaking point. Naturalist Richard Kearton hung a stone from a mussel's anchor threads and added weight until they failed. He noted that the threads were loaded unevenly: one historical test, not a rating for every mussel....
ViewThese seabirds left the sea to take a freshwater bath. At Loch Clift, naturalist Richard Kearton described two streams: birds flying in from the sea to bathe, and birds returning. After washing, they shook off water in flight and preened on a nearby hillside, facing the wind....
ViewA boatman spotted what looked like a man coming toward him in a boat. He paddled closer. The object was a bottle cork, floating with the tide. That is the story George Butler told the naturalist Frank Buckland about a morning off the Spit. Butler was used to taking his small, battered boat out to f...
ViewBuilders working under João Aracú’s direction widened a hollowed log with heat and careful spreading, then held its shape as it cooled. A wider canoe from the same log The shell was already hollow. The next task: open it wider without splitting it. Heat. Spread. Watch for cracks. The slit faced down...
ViewClouds are collections of tiny water particles suspended in the air. In Loudon’s 1848 account, thin clouds reflect much of the sunlight that strikes them and look white; clouds holding more water absorb more of that light, making the sky look dark. She says rain falls when the water in a cloud becom...
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