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...while the social structure of the remaining groups appears to be breaking down. Several large colonies of murres, a seabird, have not produced any chicks in the years since the spill. Harlequin ducks, black oyster catchers and other animals have been contaminated by eating oil-drenched mussels, and sea-otter populations are hemorrhaging, literally and figuratively -- a side effect of hydrocarbon poisoning...
...Eliot Gardiner and friends. Furthermore, the principals negotiate the passages of secco recitative with a rare sense for the shape that can be given to each phrase. Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Tito does an admirable job with a role that too easily becomes lifeless and statuesque. Anne Sofie von Otter is a brilliant Sesto, while Julia Varady's Vitellia is truly arresting, combining sensuality with vengeful duplicity. The orchestral playing, through the ministrations of the English Baroque Soloists, is tightly controlled and thoughtful, and the obbligato parts are spectacular. This is a truly visionary interpretation of a work that badly...
...made the vessels 100 times as flexible as modern boats. The Aleuts became shaped to the demands of kayaking vast distances, developing huge upper bodies from relentless paddling and bowed legs that allowed them to sit confined for hours. By the time the Russians arrived in pursuit of sea-otter pelts in 1741, the Aleuts had established a marriage of man and technology near perfect for hunting sea mammals...
...baidarka changed markedly under the influence of the Russians and then began to disappear with the end of the sea-otter hunts in the last century. After World War II, the Aleuts switched to motor-powered craft. In his efforts to reconstruct the original kayaks, Dyson, based in Bellingham, Wash., relies on early accounts of explorers and sea captains...
...Manu is also one of the few places on earth where visitors can see giant river otters. The aggressive 70-lb. mammals make their home on lakes upstream from the lodge. Viewed from the vantage point of a dugout canoe, one otter family offered an idyllic vision of life in the wild, frolicking from one side of the lake to the other, while pausing occasionally to feast on abundant fish...