birds, even bats. Recently a group of botanists have been able to study the exact mating patterns of a species of Madagascar orchid called Aerangis ellisii.Orchids have an incredible diversity of shapes, sizes and colors. They are hermaphroditic (bearing both male and female parts), and their pollen comes in masses called pollinia which stick to the attracted insect, to be carried to the ...
of humankind's relationship with the dodo begins in 1510 when the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, due east of Madagascar, was sighted by Portuguese sailors. Although the island was konwn to Arab traders, it was still unoccupied at the time. It is a roughly elliptical island, 38 miles by 29 miles and with an area of 770 square miles, about three-fourths the size of Rhode Island.The ...
necessary for successful reproduction.)Bernhard Meier of Ruhr University in Germany has been exploring the forests of Madagascar, where once the largest of all birds lived. It was the Aepyornis(or "elephant bird"), which weighed up to a ton, laid the largest known egg, served as the model for the "roc" of the Arabian Nights and was driven to extinction even before Europeans arrived.But Meier ...
희귀한 낙지나무의 숲…. 태고의 지구생물이 살아있는 대지를 본다. 마다가스카르(Madagascar)에서 자연과학연구의 제1인자인 '조지스 란드리아나솔로'씨는 강하하기 시작한 헬리콥터문의 손잡이를 꽉 잡으며 눈아래 펼쳐지는 날카로운 바위산을 불안스러운듯 바라보고 있었다. 섬전체가 ...
is a height record, but not a weight record. Up to the 1600s, the "elephant bird," or "Aepyornis," was still alive in Madagascar. It stood only 10 feet high, but it weighed nearly 1,000 pounds. It had the largest egg known, with a capacity of 2 1/3 gallons, seven times that of an ostrich egg. Or consider insects. There are beetles up to seven inches long, and some that weigh as much as 3 1/2 ...
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