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The American bison had a close brush with extinction. But so long as the world is run by careless maniacs that walk upright, I wouldn't bet much on its future. Or mankind's. 美洲野牛险遭灭绝。只要这个世界是由直立行走的贪婪且狂热之徒统治,就不能对未来掉以轻心。人类也是如此。 更多全部 ...
The 10 original Care Bears, which wear belly badges to denote their personalities, were intended to be American Greetings card characters in 1981 until they became plush, stuffed Parker Brothers dolls by 1983. Cheer, Bedtime, Birthday, Wish, Tender Heart, Good Luck, Love-a-lot, Friend, Funshi...
【典例7】We think of a flood or an earthquake as anatural disaster. To many of nature’s animals, however, the greatest disasteris the coming of large numbers of humans. When settlers came from the East to America’s greatwestern plains, they killed millions of bison, poisoned the prairie...
You see, not everyone in American gymnastics always backed the Karolyis. Especially not at first. Some folks bridled at their demanding methods and mandated treks to the ranch, which is as quirky as Bela himself. And the history of how the Karolyis jumpstarted ...
The city now ranks third among the IDA’s North American offices for inward investor visits to Ireland. Both Consulates, with terrific local staff, are great examples of the outworking of the Government’s Global Ireland strategy. Mary and I had the pleasure of meeting so many Irish ...
Like many other states, New Hampshire bans bears, tigers, leopards, monkeys, apes, wolves, poisonous reptiles, and monkeys. Permits are required for some but not all species if you own a chinchilla, ferret, llama, sugar glider, camel, or bison, you're in the clear. ...
If we could fix the chicken and egg issue on bison ( too expensive for more sales, not enough sales to justify larger herds, not even bison to lower prices) we’d get better meat yield out west and use less water. They are optimized in a way cattle still ain’t for the American pl...
She tells Popular Mechanics that she has seen many large mammals in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with her own eyes, including elk, deer, wolves, and bison. “Regarding radioresistance, we can expect that long-living organisms will develop strategies to mitigate the effect of chronic irradiation,...
Right whales, so named because they were the "right whale to hunt," are among the most endangered whales today. Researchers estimate there are only a few hundred left in the world. Photo courtesy NOAA/NMFS Under these regulations, many whale species have bounced back from the brink of extinc...