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The biology of animals that have been traditionally hunted are usually well known. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Enhydra lutris, the sea otter, was heavily exploited by man, prized universally for its exceptionally warm, sheik and tre

The Soft Coral Atlas of the Great Barrier Reef contains distribution maps, detailed ecological information and colour photographs of the 36 most common genera of soft corals and sea fans (Alcyonacea, Octocorallia) found on the Great Barrier Reef.

A Prosimian is a premonkey or protomonkey. They are small insectivore-like mammals that exhibit some characteristics of monkeys. They have special behavioral and physical adaptations to fill different ecological niches. Prosimians can be diurnal?, but the

"Wilderness" is stereotypically understood as referring to natural environments. But wilderness means much more. It is really about places, spaces, and states which humans identify as having a quality of "wildness" which seems to be