the Western subspecies of black rhino was poached to oblivion during the 20th century. It's now accident that the species that gone extinct is a species which is prized for one part of it
Once upon a time, there lived a special kind of bird on an island in the Indian Ocean. The grey bird was larger than a goose and had a hooked beak and a tail with white feathers. They were different from common birds because couldn't fly.In 1598, the Portuguese discovered them and ...
A brief and fascinating history of Mauritius, an island 500 miles east of Madagascar, and once the home of the now-extinct dodo bird.
such as birds and lizards, tend to become massive in island settings—producing the 50-pounddodoand the ten-foot-longKomodo dragon, for example. Animals like humans and elephants, which would typically be big, mightshrink on islands.
I arrived in Newport today (May 30, 2014) to begin an 8 day course on the History and Architecture of the area. Class does not start until this evening, which gave me the opportunity to grab the first, of what I hope will be many, lobster rolls during this visit. I headed to Flo...
The genusCoffea(Rubiaceae) comprises 124 species most of which are distributed in tropical Africa, Madagascar and islands in the western Indian Ocean, and whenPsilanthusspecies are included, even in tropical Asia and Australia (Davis et al.2006,2011).Coffeaspecies are perennial woody bushes or tr...
which they lived (Insoll2012). Colleagues whose work emphasizes the last several hundred years draw all these strands together as they seek to comprehend the evolution of a global capitalist economy that continues to depend on structural inequalities between (and within) different parts of the ...