In 1966, with no experience or formal scientific training, Dian Fossey left the United States and set up her gorilla observation camp in the Virunga mountains of Africa. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Louis Leakey, the 34-year-old Fossey had embarked on a 19-year project that began as a field study of gorillas but expanded into a labor of love and a mission to protect the magnificent species from extinction. No human ever came closer to the mysterious mountain gorillas than Fossey; but as her relationship with th
Just as a young pup can transform into a beautiful fox, changes big and small happen around us all the time. How does the grass change? How can a stone wall change? What changes happen to water in a lake?
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When two church mice are forced from a comfortable living, migration in search of new quarters exposes the tiny pair to the rawer side of mouse existence, where vulnerabilities evoke some frightful days that could be their last. Grappling with the liabilities of small body size and brief lifespans, hope of survival relies on sheer will until an assuring friendship and real need of help comes from an unexpected canine foe turned friend. In time the pair of struggling mice show themselves capable of withstanding