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Jonathan C. Slaght
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Owls & the Meaning of April
The transition from winter to spring always brings out a curious mixture of emotions in me. For years, April had meant the end of a field season, weeks of cold and discomfort spent with my local colleagues in the Russian woods, sometimes a hundred or more kilometers from the nearest human settlement, sleeping in a […]
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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China:
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Совы во льдах: Как спасали самого большого филина в мире (Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl) (Russian Edition):
"Чудесная книга! Пейзажи меняются с дикой скоростью, все подряд переправляются через реки вплавь, пешком, на джипах и на лыжах, снегоходы вязнут в сугробах, председатели сельсовета пьют водку, олени тонут в полыньях, филины ловят рыбу, люди ищут филин"
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"BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE NONFICTION TOLD FROM A FIRST PERSON CHRONOLOGICAL NARRATIVE I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! if there isn’t a word for this specific genre there should be because i LOVE it. loved this, learned a lot about fish owls and russia (that place i"
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Hi Madison, sorry for taking a year to see this and answer your question. We try as possible to follow individuals but it's tough--they live in pretty inaccessible areas where it's hard to check on them very often, and they are very hard to spot. In
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“There was a sense of purpose to this work: fish owls were a species that needed a voice, and by teasing out their secrets, we were giving them one.”
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“With a face of wrinkled leather and a ropy
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
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“With a face of wrinkled leather and a ropy
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
body jettisoned of everything but raw muscle, he was like a heavy-smoking, hard-drinking Bilbo Baggins; the tiger was his Ring.”
― Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
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