Author

Contributions

  • Bishop, Nic, 1955- ill - Contributor

Publication

2013 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

20,000 words, Guess

Page Count

80 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC599.66
  • LCCQL737.U64 M66 2013
  • LCCQL737.U64M66 2013

Description

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.

Subjects

Places

People

Patricia Medici (1972-)

Series Statement

  • Scientists in the Field

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