Unit 5: Part 3 Vocabulary

In the old days, in the years that have gone before us, the land and sea felt a great emptiness, a yearning.

The sea, too, teemed with fish, but they also seemed to be waiting.

Then one day, at its noon apex, the first sighting was made.

When the incidents began in August 1972, biologist Ken Glander and his wife, Molly, had been studying the eating habits of a troop of howling monkeys in northwestern Costa Rica for nearly three months.

Abruptly, she fell off the branch.

Other scientists had observed howlers eating leaves from many kinds of trees, including poisonous species, without any signs of distress.

Alderman Richard Thompson initiated the program after he saw a newspaper photograph of a firefighter in Superior giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a cat rescued from a house fire.

The Madison department also bought its masks with money raised from unsolicited donations, she said.

“Firefighters will care for any pets we find in the event they suffer from smoke inhalation.’’

For oftentimes the Sioux dogs were coaxed away and ran with the wolf-pack, always returning, however, in a few days or weeks to the village.

They traversed many little valleys and crossed many creeks and streams; they walked up hills and down hills, and at last came to one from which she could look down upon the camp of her people.

At first it mystified her, then she realized it was the smell of human beings.

Yet they know how to navigate expertly along oceanic fronts, the invisible boundaries between waters of different temperatures and densities.

When Chao heard Dr. Dan Costa, a professor of marine biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, present some of his animal tagging data at a scientific meeting a few years ago, he saw an opportunity to improve his ocean models.

"As we are getting more data from the sea and improving our computer models," says Chao, "we should be able to make routine ocean forecasts, similar to what meteorologists have been doing in the past few decades..."

It was extinction by dilution, and to the ornithologists it was just as tragic as the more dramatic demise of the passenger pigeon or the Carolina parakeet.

It was extinction by dilution, and to the ornithologists it was just as tragic as the more dramatic demise of the passenger pigeon or the Carolina parakeet.

I like to think they are all descendants of those sixteen birds I saved from the vigilance of the ornithologists.