Lion Down: How an Animal Gets Convicted
Lion Down: How an Animal Gets Convicted
A big cat gets blamed for a killing it did not do, and the machinery that decides what happens to it next has almost nothing to do with biology.
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Lion Down: How an Animal Gets Convicted
Big Game: A Rhino Horn Is Made of Fingernail
Big Game: A Rhino Horn Is Made of Fingernail
The horn a poacher will kill a rhinoceros for is keratin. The same material as your fingernails, growing out of a patch of skin. That is most of the tragedy...
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Ape Escape: The Real Price of One Baby Gorilla
Ape Escape: The Real Price of One Baby Gorilla
Nobody takes a baby gorilla quietly. An infant lives inside a family that will defend it, and that is the arithmetic sitting underneath this entire book.
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All Ears: What an Elephant Says That You Cannot Hear
All Ears: What an Elephant Says That You Cannot Hear
A herd of elephants walks onto a lit football field on a Friday night, in front of a full stand. Nobody in the bleachers hears the part that matters.
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Race to the South Pole: Polar Travel Is Arithmetic
Race to the South Pole: Polar Travel Is Arithmetic
A man dragging a sledge across Antarctica burns more food in a day than he can carry for a day. Everything else about polar travel comes out of that one...
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Escape from the Great Earthquake: The Fire Did the Damage
Escape from the Great Earthquake: The Fire Did the Damage
Most of San Francisco did not fall down in 1906. It burned, over three days, because the same shove that cracked the buildings cracked the water mains under the street.
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