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6 results for “through the ages the naming of the months in our calendar”
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🐘 Minds Like Quiet Rivers: The Intelligence of Elephants
From section: 🧸 Play as a window into learningTrunk control itself requires months of practice. Calves frequently trip over their own trunks or struggle to grasp objects, and older siblings sometimes intervene to help. …
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🐆 Baby Cheetahs: Early Life, Survival, and the Slow Road to Speed
From section: 🎯 Practice, play, and the making of a hunterBy about six months of age, a mother may capture live prey and allow the cubs to pursue it. Their first attempts are often hesitant and poorly coordinated. …
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🧫 Tides of Chemical Worlds: How Animals Meet the Molecules Around Them
Before an animal sees or hears another creature, it often meets its chemistry first. Across forests, oceans, and grasslands, animals move through landscapes shaped not only by terrain and climate, but also by chemistry.
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🌺 Whispers of Tiny Wings: Hummingbirds, Their Lives, and the Science of Small Flight
From section: 🌸 Partners in pollination and ecosystem dynamicsThe chemistry of nectar shapes how hummingbirds interact with flowers, influencing which plants they visit and how energy flows through these ecological networks. …
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🐾 Where the Wild Paths Divide: Wolves, Foxes, and Jackals in the Dog Family
From section: 🌍 How one family of animals took many roadsThe dog family, the Canidae, stretches back through millions of years of shifting landscapes. Early dog like mammals carried a flexible design that could be shaped by open plains, dense forests, and the presence of larger predators.
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🌍 African Wild Dogs: Painted Wolves of the Savanna
They move through the open world as a quiet pattern shaped by light, distance, and time. What remains is not a story but a trace, the still geometry of coexistence.