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Editors' Picks
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Venom's Healing Bite
Toxic compounds in animal venom could yield new drugs for heart disease, cancer, and chronic pain.
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How Smart Are Dogs?
Meet an extraordinary Border collie and other dogs that are changing our view of canine intelligence.
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Spineless Smarts
Animal behaviorist Jean Boal ponders what cephalopods might teach us about our own intellect.
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Nature’s Super-Materials
See some of Nature's stickiest, toughest, and cleanest materials, and learn how they are inspiring new products.
Nature in the News
Links
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Encyclopedia of Life
www.eol.org
Browse, search, and contribute to the ultimate online encyclopedia for all living things.
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National Wildlife Federation
www.nwf.org
Get involved in efforts to protect wildlife and its habitats.
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The Marine Mammal Center
www.marinemammalcenter.org
Learn what it takes to rehabilitate marine mammals, meet current patients, and more.
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Mission Blue, Sylvia Earle Foundation
www.mission-blue.org/hopespots
A site dedicated to the importance of our oceans and efforts to protect them
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BBC Nature
www.bbc.co.uk/nature/
Natural history news, games, radio, and more
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The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
www.iucnredlist.org
Find out more about vulnerable species and current conservation efforts.
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Tree of Life Web Project
tolweb.org/tree/
Delve into the biodiversity of the living world.
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Great Ape Trust
www.greatapetrust.org
A website devoted to our closest living relatives and research concerning their behavior and conservation
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Citizen Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
birds.cornell.edu/LabPrograms/citSci/
Learn about birds and contribute to scientific studies.
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The Nature Conservancy
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Get conservation news, read blog posts, and send e-cards.
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International Wolf Center
www.wolf.org
The ultimate wolf-lover’s website
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Nature, WNET
www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/
PBS’s trusted series on all things natural
Books
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A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation
by Aldo Leopold
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
by Lewis Thomas
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The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior
by Jane Goodall
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Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
by Frans de Waal
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The Ants
by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson
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For Love of Insects
by Thomas Eisner
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Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas
by Sylvia A. Earle & Linda K. Glover
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
by Richard Fortey
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The Private Life of Plants
by David Attenborough
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
by David Quammen
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World
by Michael Pollan