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AMNH Digital Library About 1.6 million people die of tuberculosis (TB) each year' mostly in developing nations lacking access to fast, accurate testing technology. TB is the current focus of the Foundation for Fino Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), established with ^" loundation ^ funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. for innovative new diagnostics FIND is dedicated to the advancement of diagnostic testing for infectious diseases in developing countries. For more information, visit www.finddiagnostics.org. Partnering against TB Twenty-two developing countries carry the burden culture from 42 days to as little as 10-14 days. In of 80 percent of the world's cases of TB, the addition, by identifying resistance to specific drugs, second-leading killer among infectious diseases the BD MGIT™ system provides fast and reliable and primary cause of death among people with information that can help physicians prescribe HIV/AIDS. 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' FORTUNE, Marcll 2008 ^ Bthisphere* Magazine, June 2008 World TB Day Pipase visit www.bd.com IVIarch 24, 2009 i BD, BD Logo and BD MGIT are trademarks of Becton, Dickinson and Company. © 2009 BD — *^^T7^; ^"^^^ l;v _'.r-. "^anf^iis^ MARCH 2009 VOLUME 118 NUMBER 2 www.naturalhistorymag.com FEATURES COVER STORY 24 TO KILL A CORMORANT Are double-crested cormorants over- running their niche—or simply recovering from centuries of suppression? / BY RICHARD J. KING 30 BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HYRAX Two closely related species find safety in numbers, except in the presence of people. BY RONALD E. BARRY DEPARTMENTS 2 THE NATURAL MOMENT 36 BOOKSHELF Bait Ball Season Laurence A. Marschall Photograph by Doug Penine 42 SKYLOG 6 WORD EXCHANGE Joe Rao 6 nature.net 44 AT THE MUSEUM Khan-quest Robert Anderson 48 ENDPAPER A Taste of the Wild 10 SAMPLINGS Aaron French News from Nature 22 BIOMECHANICS The Living Gomboc Adam Summers ON THE cover: Double-crested cormorant sports breeding plumage feather tufts on its head that give the species its common name. Martin B. Withers / FLPA ^f^' 0i^^¥^ \-af^l,ia^..^ f^' p*F',, "l T--^^ ''?& "•iS^V. i^0^:i,VJ|Jy.v^' vJ. THE NATURAL riiTfl" BAIT BALL SEASON Photograph by Doug Perrine ; -T^o-^ . -TTTT-V-^-vj^ ''****^^^^ '''•^' ^ - ^ •- •-) '»ra^-, >> I '5^1^^ */ >-^ W - J-ft,^ '^d^Srinii^^^y^ ' - A .,^~. ;g^ .-,U ^ ?• - \>^r~^9* \ ^»>* ^^^.^ .^ ^trinBV ia^^ > ^"jg^ --^ * Pwr. ;— "^^fltf^^^^^^MdCsM^^^^ ^ ' »* ^ ^' ^*^^^^^^^^^^^'S>,£ . .^."iH " •• •~r.. 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Frigates and other seabirds TOUGH GUY WHO'S joined the action from above; the sea NOT AFRAID TO SHOW lions barked and blew bubbles as they worked the crowd below. Most fear- HIS SOFTER YET some, though, were the dexterous EQUALLY TOUGH SIDE. marlin, juveniles that on average mea- sured six feet long and weighed nine- ty pounds. They slashed, snatched, stunned, and impaled their prey by satellite, though easier in prac- even torpedo-chased individual fish tice, had proved inadequate.) out of the water to body-slam them Other major unknowns persist on the surface with their bills. in marlin biology—including the purpose of the creatures' rapid color According to fishermen, 2008 holds changes, made possible by special skin the record for the most "strip- cells called iridophores that are con- ies" around Baja in the last quar- trolled by the nervous system. Per- ter century. Michael L. Domeier, rine reports that marlin "light up in a director of the Offield Center for bright neon blue as they herd the bait- Billfish Studies in Fallbrook, Cali- fish, maneuver, and communicate." fornia, suggests -that withdrawal As for the danger, Perrine said, "It of a Japanese longline fleet may be was like I was in a fencing match with responsible. Yet accurate population a dozen expert swordsmen at once." estimates are elusive. That's one rea- And when one marlin swam by with son why Domeier is spearheading an another marlin's broken bill impaled arduous archival-tagging program, in its side, he realized with a sinking launched in the fall. (Data collection feeling that even experts miss. Doug Perrine holds B.S. and M.A. degrees in marine biol- ^ SeaPics.com, ogy from the University of Miami. He founded which he operated for eighteen years before moving on and winning the top prize in the 2004 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. 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