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The Smaller Majority – Tales of Nature and Photography by ~ Tales of Nature and Photography by Piotr Naskrecki Featured Mozambique Diary Demons in the dust When the fuel line under a car breaks and starts spewing a highly flammable liquid the chances of something good coming out of such a situation are usually slim

The Smaller Majority 9780674025622 Piotr ~ “The Smaller Majority represents the best kind of nature writing by a scientific expert of the subject beautifully illustrated and with striking original examples”―Edward O Wilson “Piotr Naskrecki is a master at portraying miniature worlds

The Smaller Majority by Piotr Naskrecki Goodreads ~ The Smaller Majority Smaller on average than a human finger creatures climbing scampering and flying out of sight make up 99 percent of all animal life visible to the naked eye This is the smaller majority that we meet eyetoeye often for the first time and certainly as never before in Piotr Naskreckis spectacular book

About – The Smaller Majority ~ His book “The Smaller Majority” Harvard University Press 2005 illustrates a multitude of threats faced by invertebrate animals whereas his most recent book “Relics Travels in Nature’s Time Machine” University of Chicago Press 2011 explores ancient organisms and ecosystems of the globe

The Smaller Majority by Piotr Naskrecki 9780674025622 ~ The Smaller Majority whose title refers to the fact that more than 90 percent of known species are smaller than a human finger brings you inside animals habitats The explanations that accompany Naskreckis photographs offer a wealth of fascinating detail with one exception almost no mention of the animals dimensions

The Smaller Majority — Piotr Naskrecki Harvard ~ Smaller on average than a human finger creatures climbing scampering and flying out of sight make up 99 percent of all animal life visible to the naked eye This is the “smaller majority” that we meet eyetoeye often for the first time and certainly as never before in Piotr Naskrecki’s spectacular book

Customer reviews The Smaller Majority ~ Reading The Smaller Majority it is hard not to be struck by the ruthless eatorbeeaten world that most animal life lives in Nature is brutalno other way to put it And evolutionary adaptation to avoid being killed and eaten is utterly astounding take the giant leaf katydid

Dermatobia Redux – The Smaller Majority ~ Raising two dipteran children was an interesting experience It was embarrassing on a few occasions when both of my arms started bleeding profusely in public painful at times to the point of waking me up in the middle of the night and inconvenient during the last stages of the flies’ development when I had to…

Lifesaving beetles – The Smaller Majority ~ Growing up in Poland a country with relatively mild but still not particularly pleasant winters I was always on the lookout for the first signs of the return of insect life and one of the most welcome sights in the spring was a beautiful metallically violet oil beetle Meloe proscarbeus I was so used to…