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CALIFORNIA WILD

fall 1994
Vol. 47:4

Pollen is clearly visible on the muzzle of this Sanborn's, or lesser, long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris curasoae). Bats are the primary pollinators of many night-blooming plants, especially saguraos, like the one shown here, and agaves.

Photograph by Merlin D. Tuttle/Bat Conservation International

Departments
Habitats
A Hole in the Desert and How (Not) to Fill It
•Gordy Slack

Features
Instinct and Imitation
Cultural Traditions of Birds
•Luis F. Baptista

Forensics of the Furred and Feathered
Hunted Animals Leave Their Prints
•Betty Brickson

Not available online:
The Empty Quarter
Unexplored Borderlands between the United States and Mexico
•Peter Steinhart

Living With Sharks
The Art and Science of Keeping Sharks Alive
•Jane E. Stevens

Cracks in Heaven's Vault
Evidence of Black Holes Catches up with Theories
•Seth Shostak

Editorial
Passages
•Keith K. Howell

Editorial
Oases of Diversity
•Keith K. Howell

Horizons
Fungi's Unlikely Relatives, Multitudes of the Middle Ocean
•Blake Edgar

Skyguide
Moonshadow
•Bing F. Quock

Letter From the Field
Galapagos: New Species, New Dilemmas
•John E. McCosker

Here at the Academy
Alan Leviton and the Role of Systematics
•Cynthia Mills

Greenery Gallery
What's a Welwitschia?
•Edward S. Ross

Counterpoints in Science
Is AIDS a Myth?
•Jerold M. Lowenstein

Letters
The Other Side of DDT
Science in Nature's Interest

Reviews
Blake Edgar on The Beak of the Finch