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Spring 1996
Vol 49.4

cover fall 1999

California sea otters need an enormous number of calories to make it through the day. They've been known to eat everything from snails to seabirds.
Photograph Jeff Foott.

Departments
Counterpoints in Science
Three Dot Science
Jerold M. Lowenstein

Horizons
www.nature.notquite
Blake Edgar

Habitats
Yosemite's Vanishing Frogs
Gordy Slack

Reviews
Mark Jennings
on A Natural History of Amphibians

Features
A Smorgasbord for Sea Otters
Cuisine and Table Manners Learned From Mom
Marianne Riedman

Not available online:
Dance of the Two Veils
Frisco's Fog Fandango
Harold Gilliam

Coastal Sage Scrub Swap
A Deal the Gnatcatcher (and others) Can Live With
David Wicinas

Poison Oak
Scourge of the Golden West
Keith K. Howell

Jupiter's Newest Satellite
Galileo Keeps It's Eye On the Prize
Donald Goldsmith

Editorial
Photo Philosophy Part 2
Keith K. Howell

Here at the Academy
Dead Whales Society
Gordy Slack

Skyguide
Comet Hale-Bopp is Coming
Bing F. Quock

At Home in the Natural World
Prints from Plants
Ida Geary

Wild Lives
Nudibranchs: A Keen Sense for the Seabed
Terry Gosliner

A Trail Less Traveled
Looking for Paradise on Mt. Lassen
Christine Colasurdo

Letters
Piltdown
Skyguide
Angry Bears