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Only a small part of Masai land has been set aside as reserve. Most of it lies in communal and private hands, where cattle graze alongside herds of eland and antelope. During the annual migration, floods of zebra and wildebeest arrive from Tanzania, and more elephants feed outside the protected area than in it. "Wildlife is just as good as any other gold," says Jackson Looseyia, 41, one of the first Masai to work as a guide in the reserve and co-owner of Rekero, the eight-tent camp where we stay the night...
...years," says David Morsa, manager of the design store De Vera, which sells horns, glass insects and other artifacts befitting a zoologist's parlor. Tellingly, Morsa's title is curator, as if the store were a natural history museum. Some items are displayed in original condition, like the taxidermy eland that hangs behind the cash register at John Derian Co., an East Village boutique devoted to sea sponges, shells and other stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors. "It may be a reaction against clean white modernism," says Marco...
...Utah desert, has five wives and 30 children (the Mormon Church excommunicated Green in 1980 for his belief in polygamy). He has just been convicted of bigamy in Provo, and could get 25 years - five years for each wife - for doing what all self-respecting male waterbuck, eland, and gnu do as a matter of course...
Jazz, an endangered African wildcat, last week became the first mammal to be born from a frozen embryo implanted in a house cat. But she's not the first rare animal to use a common species' womb. A bongo antelope was born to an eland in 1984 at the Cincinnati Zoo, and two Holsteins, one in Cincinnati and one at the Bronx Zoo, have given birth to gaur, a rare species of wild cattle...
Given the dearth of threats, some experts see no need for a 50-sub fleet. Ivan Eland of the Cato Institute, a Washington think tank, argues that a force of 25 is more than adequate. If the Navy kept its current submarines steaming for their planned 30-year lives and bought no new ones, the U.S. sub fleet would still not fall to 25 until 2017. That's not how they see things at the Pentagon, however. Its Defense Science Board recently urged the Navy to begin planning the next-next-generation attack submarine--one that will be better...