Life on the Line; Follow Writer Bethan Gwanas as She Journeys the EquatorByline: By JILL TUNSTALLDaily Post (Liverpool, England)
Birds with smaller eyes tended to be ___, traveling across many habitats; larger-eyed species had ___ ranges, concentrated around the equator (赤道) and often covered by dense forest shade. The study suggests that smaller-eyed birds can ___ handle varying light levels as they travel, where...
Cape Town also reminds me a lot of Rio. The white sand beaches, the mountains, the sunny weather…yet both have a dark side. The favelas and the townships are scars on an otherwise perfect environment. Surrounded by all this beauty I can’t help but feel uncomfortable at the economic di...
从赤道到两极地带 From the equator to the poles, 鸟类找出最巧妙的方式 birds have found the most ingenious ways 克服生命中的种种挑战 of overcoming the many challenges of life, 其中的关键 就在它们独一无二的特征,羽毛 and everything revolves around their unique attribute, feathers. 过去三年来 ‘...
Life near the equator is always warm, but on the morning of departure, the heat was unusually intense. I climbed into the cab of a pick up truck, wondering if I’d made a huge mistake. My friend and I sat quietly in the back seat and watched Libreville fade into the review mirror....
We all know that it is possible for ordinary people to make their homes on the equator(赤道) although often they may feel uncomfortably hot there. Millions do it, but as for the North Pole(北极) we know that it is not only a dangerously cold place, but that people like you and me ...
Although we lived on the equator, nights were often chilly with treacherous drafts. One student midwife went for the box we had for such babies and the cotton wool that the baby would be wrapped in. Another went to stoke up the fire and fill a hot water bottle. She came back shortly ...
The Equator. It’s traditional to perform a line-crossing ceremony where first time Equator-crossers are ritually humiliated, heads shaved and covered in fish guts, for example. As the only ’Shellback’ on board, it fell to me to perform this rite of passage. (As my daughter Jemima did ...
Despite being close to the equator, these peaks are so cold at night that the wolves face a frost-covered dawn. Each pack is centred around a single dominant female. Normally, it is only she who breeds. This year, she has produced six pups. But if she is to raise them all in this...
交流的冲动你和我都属于世界上分布最广最有优势的动物YouandIbelongtothemostwidespreadanddominantspeciesofanimalonearth.我们生活在冰天雪地的极地和赤道的热带丛林WeliveontheicecapsatthepoleandthetropicaljunglesattheEquator.我们爬上了最高的山及潜进了深海We'veclimbedthehighestmountainanddiveddeepintotheseas....