AWI Quarterly Term Archive
Review
The Hidden World of the Fox
Terrestrial WildlifeThe Hidden World of the Fox is a concise, yet broad overview of the fox. The author, British mammal ecologist Adele Brand, has been studying foxes for 20 years, and though...
The Lives of Bees
Terrestrial WildlifeI don’t think there is another animal on the planet considered to be as beneficial to humanity as the honey bee (Apis mellifera). For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have...
Dog is Love
Companion AnimalsDr. Clive Wynne, a canine behaviorist and founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University in Tempe is the author of Dog Is Love: Why and How Your...
The Last Butterflies
Terrestrial WildlifeIn The Last of the Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, Dr. Nick Haddad explores his journey to becoming a butterfly biologist and discusses how butterflies...
The World Beneath
Marine WildlifeThe World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs, by Dr. Richard Smith, is a fascinating description of the aquatic life in coral environments. Smith’s...
Emperors of the Deep
Marine WildlifeWilliam McKeever’s Emperors of the Deep: The Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians highlights the significance of sharks to the oceans’ delicate ecosystems and reveals the horrendous threats jeopardizing...
The Photo Ark Vanishing
Terrestrial WildlifeJoel Sartore is a gifted wildlife photographer. Fifteen years ago, events in his personal life meant he could no longer travel internationally to photograph wildlife in their natural habitat. So...
The Woolly Monkey Mysteries
Terrestrial WildlifePerforming noninvasive studies of wild animals can be tricky. The task becomes even more challenging when the subject of the study mainly lives in the canopy of the rainforest—nearly 100...
Mama’s Last Hug
Elderly captive chimpanzee Mama is in her last days. She is visited by an old human friend. She greets and embraces him with gestures and faces that chimpanzees and humans...
Sharkwater: Extinction
Marine WildlifeHumans kill an estimated 100 million sharks every year. Sharkwater: Extinction—the second shark documentary directed and written by the late Rob Stewart—seeks to expose practices that contribute to the cruel and...