Word: fauna
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...AIDS medications. Archaeologists increasingly rely on the help of lay people who pay for the privilege of accompanying the scientists on digs. And even in summer, the National Audubon Society is looking forward to its Christmas bird count, a winter tradition in which thousands of volunteers survey the ornithological fauna near their homes in order to map ranges and track populations. "People want to go out and observe," says Frank Gill, the Audubon Society's science director, "but they want to contribute their observations to a larger goal...
...group will try to find exactly where the tigers live, and also study the flora and fauna of their habitat. Finally, the group believes its presence may help slow tiger extinction...
...witches, Cruella De Vil. She's as determined as she was in 1961 to have a coat made of puppy-dog skins, still employs variously addled henchmen to work her will and is still thwarted by the combined wit of what appears to be most of the Britain's fauna. For us dog saps, it is especially nice to see cuddlesomely real pooches instead of drawn ones doing smart-pet tricks. Fans of the high-diva mode will doubtless feel the same about Glenn Close's Cruella. In (creepy) flesh and (chilly) blood, the character is more fun for grownups...
...during last Thursday's Biological Sciences 2 field laboratory that I arrived at this conclusion. BS 2 labs are regularly three hours long. Last week's trip to the fauna of the Harvard-owned Concord hillside, though, ended up dragging on a bit longer. The 5 p.m. deadline for our scheduled return to Harvard turned to 6 p.m. even before we departed...
...about where dinosaurs lived and how they evolved. "We have a pretty good record from North America, Asia and South America," says paleontologist Mark Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "But we're just now starting to get a picture of the dinosaur fauna of Africa...