Word: speciesism
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Not far north of the Minilya roadhouse, glossy black dots strut through the silver mirage around a dark mass on the road. With a Formula 1 driver's judgment of closing velocity, at the last second they wheel into the sky, crows playing chicken with the traffic. The tableau of...
The Kalbarri National Park, cut by the gorges of the Murchison River, borders the North West Coastal Highway. It contains more than 800 wildflower species, but they're not screaming out to the motorist flashing by at the 110-km/h limit. "We tell people, Stop the car, get out, walk...
There are many threatened species in the park, and the drought isn't helping. The ground is poor in nutrients-"Dead soil, bottomless sand, really," says Edwards, "but great for natives"-and with barely 25 mm of rain so far (against last year's 125), the threat intensifies. Edwards points...
At sunset they look like squat people dotted across the plain. Here, 450 km below Karratha, the invisible population of the bush busies itself in mounds rising a meter or so above the spinifex scrub. Three hundred of the world's 3,000 termite species live in Australia. Most are...
Forbes, who became a Harvard stage phenom, remains just as stunning more than a decade later. She has that rare species of blessed voice—fluid as quicksilver, full as down, and fine as lace. It carries a richness and sincerity that saturates every note she sings, regardless of...