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...frenzy of enzyme production. The excess enzymes break down such steroids as estrogen that are essential to the manufacture of calcium. Lacking adequate calcium, the bird's eggs emerge thin-shelled and flaky, offering scant protection for the embryo. In at least one instance, reports the National Audubon Society, which has just joined the public crusade against DDT, a bald-eagle egg was found on the shores of Lake Superior with no shell at all-just a fragile membrane. According to University of Wisconsin Ecologist Joseph Hickey, DDT has caused a disastrous decline in the population of the bald...
Great Obsessions. The cement pourers have been thwarted on dam projects before, but rarely-if ever-on such ecological and esthetic grounds. What rescued the Red River Gorge was frenzied activity by the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society, an outpouring of statements by Kentucky biologists, and most important, intervention by some high-level Republicans, including Governor Louie Nunn, Senator John Sherman Cooper and President Richard Nixon...
...IMPERIAL COLLECTION OF AUDUBON ANIMALS edited with new text by Victor E. Cuhalane. 307 pages. Hammond...
...Audubon was interested in beasts as well as birds. He and his two sons contributed the illustrations of this volume, now reissued after 119 years; they are lively, formal, detailed and at the same time natural. Unlike his great...
Birds of America, which he claimed (somewhat extravagantly) to have done entirely from life, the animals were nature morte. Since his subjects included the grizzly bear and the grey, or timber, wolf, this is easy to understand. Like all other naturalists, Audubon loved the things he killed. His views are reflected in this remark: "If a wolf passes your tent in the wilderness, he is likely to be less unpleasant than your next-door neighbor back home...