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CALIFORNIA WILD

Summer 2003
Vol. 56:3

Army ants create living nests by linking their legs together. From the ANTS exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences.
Photograph by Dong Lin.

Horizons
Fairy Wren v. Cuckoo
Counting Coots
•Kathleen M. Wong

Habitats
Homeland Insecurity
•Gordy Slack

Counterpoints in Science
Driving Model T-rex
•Jerold M. Lowenstein

Letters to the Editor
Dogs and Parks

Reviews
•Nina Jablonski on
A Brain for All Seasons
•Cameron Walker
on Love
•Editors'
Recommendations

Here At The Academy
Earth Appreciation
•Victoria Schlesinger

Features
Rafflesia: The Super Flower
Big enough to cradle a three-year-old child, the world's largest flower infuses the forests of southeast Asia with the stench of rotten meat.
•Edward S. Ross

Helium Rain Likely
Think the weather's bad on Earth? Poison clouds and planet-sized storms await voyagers to other worlds.
•Kirsten Vanstone

Glimpses of the Golden State
The winners of California Wild's Second Biannual Photo Contest

At Home in the
Natural World
Skyguide
Marvellous Mars
•Bing F. Quock

Naturalist's Almanac
What to Look for This Summer
•David Lukas

Not available online:
Death of a Sirenian
Massive as elephants but gentle as lambs, the great northern sea cows of Bering Island were the last of their species. Discovery by explorers and whalers sealed their fate.
•Robert Aquinas McNally

Antlers in the Sage
A velvet approach.
•Don Lange

Parrots Once Removed
Thousands of wild parrots, threatened in their native rainforests, now brighten California's urban jungles.
•Don Dale and Janet Aird

Mystery of the Three Little Monsters
A trio of strange Native American artifacts led anthropologists to uncover a new facet of Chumash culture.
•Jan Timbrook and John R. Johnson

In Pursuit of Science
Petaluma High School Museum
•Cameron Walker

Wild Lives
Octopus Mimic
•Dave Brian Butvill