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Meaning. According to tradition, "the birds and the bees" is a metaphorical story sometimes told to children in an attempt to explain the mechanics and results of sexual intercourse through reference to easily observed natural events. For instance, bees carry and deposit pollen into flowers, a visible and easy-to-explain parallel to fertilization.
A History of British Birds. A History of British Birds is a natural history book by Thomas Bewick, published in two volumes. Volume 1, Land Birds, appeared in 1797. Volume 2, Water Birds, appeared in 1804. A supplement was published in 1821. The text in Land Birds was written by Ralph Beilby, while Bewick took over the text for the second volume.
Historia animalium et al., Constantinople, 12th century (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, pluteo 87.4). History of Animals (Greek: Τῶν περὶ τὰ ζῷα ἱστοριῶν, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; Latin: Historia Animalium, "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's ...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives (1969) by British naturalist Gerald Durrell is the second volume of his autobiographical Corfu trilogy, published from 1954 to 1978. The trilogy are memoirs about his childhood with his family between 1935 and 1939, when they lived on the Greek island of Corfu. As in the first book, the well-known My Family and ...
Bees in mythology. Gold plaques embossed with winged bee goddesses, perhaps the Thriae or perhaps an older goddess, [a][2] found at Camiros, Rhodes, dated to 7th century BCE (British Museum). Bees have been featured in myth and folklore around the world. Honey and beeswax have been important resources for humans since at least the Mesolithic ...
William Yarrell 's A History of British Birds was first published as a whole in three volumes in 1843, having been serialised, three sheets (=48 pages) [1] every two months, over the previous six years. It is not a history of ornithology but a natural history, a handbook or field guide systematically describing every species of bird known to ...
Relatives. Willard D. Straight (grandfather) Dorothy Payne Whitney (grandmother) Dorothy Elmhirst Straight[1] (born May 25, 1958, in Washington, D.C.) is an American author who wrote How the World Began in 1962 at the age of 4 [2] for her grandmother, Dorothy Payne Whitney, [3] making her among the youngest published authors in history. [4]
With the advent of scientific interest in birds, many paintings of birds were commissioned for books. [ 314 ] [ 315 ] Among the most famous of these bird artists was John James Audubon , whose paintings of North American birds were a great commercial success in Europe and who later lent his name to the National Audubon Society . [ 316 ]