They help clear leaves to stop a lot of wildfires spreading. "They do a lot for not only Australian tourism, but also for maintenance of the bush. "Koalas are an iconic Australian species," Samuel Phillips, a molecular biologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast who helped to develop the vaccine, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. In an ambitious new field trial, which began in March, they're administering the vaccine to wild koalas in the state of New South Wales. Researchers in Australia have developed a chlamydia vaccine specifically geared to the beloved marsupials, and they're hoping it will help stop the sexually transmitted disease's rampant spread. Scientists are trying to save koalas from the disease that's making their lives miserable and threatening the very survival of their species. While I was reading The Search for WondLa, I wanted to see what a tardigrade looked like, and there it was.As It Happens 6:01 Scientists are vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia A book we were reading mentioned frangipani flowers, and since we didn't know what that was, we looked it up. My daughters and I have had a lot of fun (we spent a lot of time looking at spiders and worms), and it's even been useful looking up specific things. Page after page of spectacular specimens, usually grouped in their orders (with subdivisions for families), make it easy to spend an afternoon just flipping through Natural History. The photos, though, are the highlight of the book. On pages that have a lot of different items, each entry is fairly short, with just a few facts.
(They don't mention that it's the inspiration for Mario's mushrooms but I wouldn't be surprised.)Įach page of life forms also has a handy chart showing phylum, class, orders, families, and species there are common names and Latin names, average size, and so on. There are many two-page spreads focusing on a particular item-for instance, the Fly Agaric mushroom ( Amanita muscaria), with a red cap and white spots, gets its own spread which gives a lot more details about its growth stages and mentions that it's the most famous fungus, appearing in children's book illustrations all over the world. There are over 5,000 gorgeous photographs of plants, animals, fungi, rocks and minerals, accompanied by brief descriptions of everything. Natural History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on Earth is kind of like having the Smithsonian Natural History Museum on your bookshelf. This month DK Publishing has released a beautiful tome that brings back that feeling of wonder and delight. I grew up reading Childcraft and I had a particular interest in the "Green Kingdom" and "About Animals" volumes, with page after page of pictures and stories about plants and animals.
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