Explains how the acacia evolved its own protection against browsing animals and helped create a balanced natural environment.
This book tells Joan's story in her own words. She understates the experiences she went through and would not think of herself as a heroine.
There is a small tree in Africa with a big secret. How do you make friends when you have sharp, pointy thorns? Find out in this heartwarming illustrated story.
The Stone Hills of Maragoli
The Whistling Thorn: South Asian Canadian Fiction
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No other whistling-thorn food items were contested in supplants between vervets, but less severe agonism over whistling-thorn new growth, seeds, and gum did occur. Vervets contested new growth more than gum and seeds, but I initially ...
The ants live on sugary WHISTLING THORNS ON THE AFRICAN PLAINS On the vicious throrns and biting WHISTLING IN THE ... If , despite the whistling thorn tree's protective prickles , a giraffe tries to eat the leaves , ants rush out to ...
The Giraffe: Biology, Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, First Edition. Bryan Shorrocks. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Left ventricle showing the verythick muscle wall Right ventricle showing ...
... thorns, as well as the ants with chemical weapons that are the acacia's “second line of defense,” have 'evolved' as protection ... the whistling thorns were not thriving: the trees often grew more slowly and more of them died than in the ...