Natural History

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Articles in Dec-Jan 1997 issue of Natural History

• My Visit to the Zoo
  by Jean Craighead George
• Cities beneath the sea
  by Barbie Bischof
• Rattlesnake Dance: True Tales, Mysteries, and Rattlesnake Ceremonies
  by Jean Craighead George
• Reefs in crisis
  by Barbie Bischof
• Lightning
  by Jean Craighead George
• Emerging infections on the reefs
  by Andrew W. Bruckner
• Storm on the Desert
  by Jean Craighead George
• Digging Cuba: the lesson of the bones
  by Ross MacPhee
• Back to the Wild
  by Jean Craighead George
• Isle of spice
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Kids log on
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Peppers today, sauce tomaly: Congo peppers the fiery heart of Caribbean cuisine, were transplanted from the jungles of Amazonia
  by Robb Walsh
• Nurturing young naturalists
  by Jean Craighead George
• The paradox of the visibly irrelevant
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Turtle Bay
  by Jean Craighead George
• Keeping up with the sponges: a microscope, a movie camera, and a laundry marker reveal sponges on the move
  by Calhoun Bond
• Kayuktuk: an Arctic Quest
  by Jean Craighead George
• The season of las parrandas
  by Tom Miller
• How It Was with Dooms: A True Story from Africa
  by Jean Craighead George
• Darwin's lizards: like Galapagos' finches, anoles of the Greater Antilles have proved to be eminently adaptable
  by Jonathan B. Losos