Threatened Deer: Proceedings of a Working Meeting of the Deer Specialist Group of the Survival Service Commission on the IUCN Threatened Deer Programme and a Dossier on the Planning of Restoration Programmes for Threatened Mammals with Special Reference to Deer, Held at Longview, Washington State, U.S.A., 26 September-1 October, 1977

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Pàgina 391 - Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims,
Pàgina 11 - ENDANGERED (E) Taxa in danger of extinction and whose survival is unlikely if the causal factors continue operating. Included are taxa whose numbers have been reduced to a critical level or whose habitats have been so drastically reduced that they are deemed to be in immediate danger of extinction. Also included are taxa that may be extinct but have definitely been seen in the wild in the past 50 years. VULNERABLE (V) Taxa believed likely to move into the 'Endangered' category in the near future...
Pàgina 12 - Endangered', 'Vulnerable' or 'Rare' but where there is not enough information to say which of the three categories is appropriate.
Pàgina 389 - SKIRTING the river road (my forenoon walk, my rest), Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching, interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel, Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass tight grappling, In tumbling, turning, clustering loops, straight downward falling, Till o'er the river pois'd, the twain yet one, a moment's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting, talons loosing,...
Pàgina 389 - His white breast, the stillness of the air, and the smoothness of the water were all against him. At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him...
Pàgina 389 - At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and...
Pàgina 202 - STEEL, RGD and JH TORRIE. 1960. Principles and Procedures of Statistics.
Pàgina 388 - Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space together, The clinching interlocking claws, a living, fierce, gyrating wheel...
Pàgina 396 - Nature Protection and Wildlife Preservation in the Western Hemisphere...
Pàgina 9 - And the first year that they be calved they be called a Calf, the second year a bullock; and that year they go forth to rut; the third year a brocket; the fourth year a staggard, the fifth year a stag; the sixth year a hart of ten and then first is he chaseable, for always before shall he be called but rascal or folly

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