You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!

Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War

As can be seen from the present chapter, main problems of adaptation, ecophysiology, ecology and evolutionary biology of the nival fauna were hardly investigated at all.” The early history of explorations of the nival zone in the Alps has been summarized […]

He is obviously uninterested and my attempt to talk a little about what I have read leaves him cold.