Emballonuridae: Information
Megadermatidae: Information
Global exploration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries radically changed Western science, orienting philosophies of natural history to more focused fields like comparative anatomy, botany, and geology. In the United States, European scientific advances and home-grown ventures like the Wilkes Exploring Expedition to Antarctica and the Pacific inspired new endeavors in cartography, ethnography, zoology, and evolutionary theory, replacing rigid models of thought and classification with more fluid and active systems. They inspired literary authors as well. This class will examine some of the most remarkable of these authors—Herman Melville (Moby-Dick and “The Encantadas”), Henry David Thoreau (Walden), Sarah Orne Jewett (Country of the Pointed Firs), Edith Wharton (House of Mirth), Toni Morrison (A Mercy), among others—in terms of the subjects and methods they adopted, imaginatively and often critically, from the natural sciences.
Renowned penguin expert Gerry Kooyman moderates a live discussion with researchers at a colony of Adelie Penguins in Antarctica. (55 minutes)
Myzopodidae: Information
Monachus schauinslandi: Information
Parascalops breweri: Information
Microdipodops pallidus: Information
Osbornictis piscivora: Information
Millepora alcicornis: Information
Nycticebus coucang: Information
Peromyscus truei: Information
Mephitis macroura: Information
Mandrillus leucophaeus: Information
Galeocerdo cuvier: Information
Herpestes javanicus: Information
Megaderma lyra: Information
Lutra maculicollis: Information
Graptemys versa: Information
Macropus parryi: Information