The Tapir Scientist
Saving South America's Largest Mammal
If you’ve never seen a lowland tapir, you’re not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil’s vast Pantanal (“the Everglades on steroids”) haven’t seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Aspiring scientists will love the immediate, often humorous “you are there” descriptions of fieldwork, and gadget lovers will revel in the high-tech science at play, from microchips to the camera traps that capture the “soap opera” of tapir life.
If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil's vast Pantanal (?the Everglades on steroids?) haven't seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Aspiring scientists will love the immediate, often humorous ?you are there? descriptions of fieldwork, and gadget lovers will revel in the high-tech science at play, from microchips to the camera traps that capture the ?soap opera? of tapir life.
| Autor: | Bishop, Nic Montgomery, Sy |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780547815480 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Houghton Mifflin Company |
| Veröffentlicht: | 23.07.2013 |
| Untertitel: | Saving South America's Largest Mammal |
| Schlagworte: | JUVENILE NONFICTION: Adventure & Adventurers JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Animal Welfare JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Endangered JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Mammals JUVENILE NONFICTION: Animals / Nocturnal JUVENILE NONFICTION: Curiosities & Wonders JUVENILE NONFICTION: Girls & Women JUVENILE NONFICTION: History / Central & South America JUVENILE NONFICTION: Lifestyles / Farm & Ranch Life JUVENILE NONFICTION: Reference / General JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Biology JUVENILE NONFICTION: Science & Nature / Trees & Forests JUVENILE NONFICTION: Technology / Agriculture JUVENILE NONFICTION: Travel |
| Altersempfehlung: | 10 - 12 |
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