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At the dawn of the 21st century, poaching and the illegal ivory trade were the biggest threats to the African elephants’ survival. Down to as few as 400,00 animals by 2012, the African elephant was on the path to extinction in the wild. African rhinoceros’ species were in even more jeopardy. Dr. John Benson, a renowned Canadian forensic wildlife biologist, RCMP Inspector, and senior strategist and trainer with INTERPOL’s Wildlife Crime Unit, together with Dr. Kate Beckett, long term colleague, romantic partner, forensic wildlife biologist, and a senior Special Agent with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, were jointly invited by INTERPOL’s Wildlife...
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What if an even more deadly mutated version of the COVID-19 virus were to emerge one year after the start of the world-wide pandemic in early 2020, and within weeks of the global roll-out of several new COVID-19 vaccines? On January 21, 2021, just outside of Boulder, Colorado, a domestic house cat unknowingly infected with the COVID-19 virus and owned by the Chief of Trauma Medicine at the Denver Health Medical Center, is attacked by a coyote in the back yard of its owner’s acreage. Although the cat initially survives, it becomes patient zero for the new mutated version of the virus. After the death of the cat and its owner from what first appears to be a re-infection of the COVID-19 virus...
Pinwheel Fancy is a literary celebration whose pages assume a life of their own, an adventure in poetry inspired by Ezra Pound. An epic of the modern soul heralds a collection of reveries composed as the author toured Michigan. Turning darkly toward the startling confession of a young woman?s sexual prowess, the anthology seethes in the mayhem and malice of Slow Monkey, a dramatic elegy to street life. Pinwheel Fancy is guaranteed to delight and entertain.
Variable Plants and Herbivores in Natural and Managed Systems examines individual, population, species, and community responses of herbivores to plant variation, with emphasis on insects, fungi, bacteria, and viruses. It is divided into five parts encompassing 18 chapters that discuss variability as a mechanism of defense used by plants against their parasites and the effects of variability on herbivores at several different levels of complexity. After a brief discussion on plant-herbivore interactions, the first part of this book considers sources of within-plant variation and effects on the distribution and abundance of herbivores. Part II examines interplant variation, the co-evolutionary...
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Christian Ernst Friedrich Benz (1816-1907), son of Martin Benz and Dorothea Sophia Schmeller, married Maria Loerke in 1841, and the family immigrated from Germany to land near Scribner, Nebraska. Descendants lived in Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Oregon, California and elsewhere. Includes other German descendants of Martin and Dorothea.