They were also hunted years ago for their baleen, which was used to make brushes and corsets. But it was their size and high yield of oil that made them the target of choice for modern commercial whalers. Before mans intervention there were 228,000 Blue whales swimming the oceans of the world.Between 1904 and 1978, [...]
He got permission from the government of Newfoundland to transfer 100 chicks each year for ten years to the Gulf of Maine. After a trial run, the first fifty-four birds were transferred in the summer of 1973. They traveled by boat, car and plane, over one thousand miles to their new home. That is quite [...]
‘Hold me tight’”. Even the man behind the meat counter, McMahon, began to watch and react to the girls by “patting his mouth and looking after them sizing up their joints”. Sammy continues with his chauvinistic ways when “she lifts a folded dollar bill out of the hollow at the center of her nubbled pink [...]
One kind of bird, the crossbill, has a specialized beak that allows it to pry the cone open and a type of nutcracker bird has a bill that is large and powerful enough to break the cones open. There are several small mammals, like squirrels, voles, and lemmings, which feed on the pine seeds also.These [...]
