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...conservationists pecking furiously at each other. Over the protests of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups that oppose any human intercession while the condors fight for survival, scientists from the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service entered the birds' habitat in California's Los Padres National Forest last February and March. They snatched two fertilized eggs from two roosts and transferred them to incubators at the zoo. The eggnaping, the scientists hoped, would protect the embryos against tumbles from the nest, attacks by predators or, as happened once last...
...plenty of time to tend their young, which take as long as seven years to mature, in a lifetime of perhaps 40 years. But this plodding pace limits the population growth of the big fidgety birds, which have been brought to the edge of extinction by hunting, loss of habitat and even stress from their contacts with humans, including perhaps overzealous researchers. Once the precious eggs were taken, the scientists felt, the would-be parents might be stirred into a new round of lovemaking...
...foul line became a favorite habitat of the cagers in the late going. Harvard tallied 21 of its final 23 points from the penalty stripe. Ferry, who netted 21 points to lead all scorers, hit 11 of 11 from the line on the game...
...professor of Anthropology Irven De Vore. The 30-minute film, which will be shown this Thursday at 5:30 at the Geological Lecture Hall, was so successful in its world tour that the WWF was able to raise enough money to buy a substantial part of the muriqui's habitat...
...construction of the pipelines has apparently had little negative impact on the environment, partly because the pipeline companies have gone out of their way to avoid criticism from ecological watchdogs. For example, to protect the prairie habitat of the rarely seen black-footed ferret, Northern Border engineers enforced a 15-mile "construction constraint" along one stretch of the line in the Dakotas in order to loop around certain prairie-dog towns, which the ferrets raid for prey. The company also held up work in several other sections for two weeks to avoid interfering with the nesting habits of prairie falcons...