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Sonoran Desert summer /
Investigates the wide variety of life that flourishes in the summer in Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tucson :
University of Arizona Press,
©1990.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Illustrations; Preface; May; The Fall and Decline of a Giant; Black Plumage
- Desert Heat; Goatsucker Myths?; Empress Butterflies: Hooked on Hackberry; Flash Flood; Broom-rapes, Cancer-roots, and Strangle-vetches; Freedom Fighters; May Twilight; Hands off the Gila Monster!; June; Poorwill; How to Wave to a Predator
- and Get Away with It; Altruism Among Ground Squirrels; June's Saguaro ; Range Wars; The Hard Lives and Hard Times of Brittlebush; Burn, Desert, Burn ; The Usery Mountain Mobbers; July ; How to Win Mates and Influence Enemies; Bahia Laura; Pleasant Memories.
- July's Saguaro Cooperative Killers and Lovers; Of Leks and Carpenter Bees; All Used Up; July Evening; Mimics, Aggressive and Otherwise; August; Flying in the Rain; The Seasons of the Peccary; August's Saguaro; A Wolf in Vulture's Clothing; August Afternoon; Carotenoids Make the Man; A Recommendation for Scorpions; September; The Cost of Coyote Meat: An Update; A Fur Coat for Summer; Hawk Morning; The Flexible Phainopepla; The Fall of Summer; References ; Index.