Describes
the research that Samuel Marshall and his students are doing on
tarantulas, including the largest spider on earth, the Goliath
birdeating tarantula.
A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild
creatures in remote jungles, Sy Montgomery had always felt more
comfortable with animals than with people. So she gladly opened her
heart to a sick piglet who had been crowded away from nourishing meals
by his stronger siblings. Yet Sy had no inkling that this piglet, later
named Christopher Hogwood, would not only survive but flourish-and she
soon found herself engaged with her small-town community in ways she had
never dreamed possible.
Discusses the work of Bob Mason and his efforts to study and protect snakes, particularly red-sided garter snakes.
What could be better than watching the natural world out your window or
on your television? Going out and experiencing it firsthand. In these
fifty essays, acclaimed nature and science writer Sy Montgomery takes
her readers on a season-by-season tour of the wilderness that is often
as close as the backyard.
When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of
the little known pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the
Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests,
and performed underwater ballets with their flexible bodies.
Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lion like
mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science--until Montgomery
and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium.
Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught
with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece
together a living portrait of her little known subject.
Contextualism as a philosophy of science has been receiving increased
attention from psychologists and other social scientists frustrated with
the dominant mechanistic view within psychology. This volume explores a
wide range of contextualistic views within psychology and the social
sciences.
A
pale, spotted, almost cloud-like coat makes the snow leopard uncannily
invisible in its rocky mountain habitat. Author Sy Montgomery and
photographer Nic Bishop accompany conservationist Tom McCarthy and his
team as they travel to Mongolia's Altai Mountains to gather data about
snow leopard populations in an attempt to save this endangered species.
Describes the cheetah's essential role in the ecosystem and the ways in
which Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund is promoting cohabitation
between cheetahs and farmers.
A book that earned Sy Montgomery her status as one of the most
celebrated wildlife writers of our time, Spell of the Tiger brings
readers to the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal
delta that lies between India and Bangladesh. It is the only spot on
earth where tigers routinely eat people--swimming silently behind small
boats at night to drag away fishermen, snatching honey collectors and
woodcutters from the forest.
Follow a group of explorers and scientists as they travel to Papua New Guinea to find a type of kangaroo that lives in trees.
Three astounding women scientists have in recent years penetrated the
jungles of Africa and Borneo to observe, nurture, and defend humanity's
closest cousins. Jane Goodall has worked with the chimpanzees of Gombe
for nearly 50 years; Diane Fossey died in 1985 defending the mountain
gorillas of Rwanda; and Biruté Galdikas lives in intimate proximity to
the orangutans of Borneo.
In
this bushwhacking adventure, Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a
tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati
Medici.
On
remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the
last 91 kakapo parrots on earth. Originally this bird numbered in the
millions before humans brought predators to the islands. Now on the
isolated island refuge, a team of scientists is trying to restore the
kakapo population.
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