- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
What's it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years?
From deserts to rainforests and even the polar Arctic, scientists venture into the field to collect, observe and study the world's organisms and the environments they live in. But even with the best planning, unexpected weather, unpredictable animals and unforeseen encounters can occur.
Wild Science: Unexpected Encounters When Working in Nature explores the precarious, hilarious and thought-provoking stories 'behind the science'. It shows the value of these experiences, even when things don't go right, and the importance of fieldwork for understanding our own place in the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Foreword
- Contents
- Preface
- About the editor
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- 1 Ngarridjarrkbolknahnan kunred: Looking after Country together in West Arnhem Land
- 2 Avoiding arrest while chasing hedgehogs
- 3 The Big Roo Count: kangaroos, kids and calamity
- 4 In search of a kingdom
- 5 A leopard at the nursery door
- 6 If the gators don’t get you, the bugs will
- 7 Raising rays
- 8 In pursuit of pollinators
- 9 Of absences and Amazonia
- 10 Caving for spiders
- 11 Some cockatoos I’ve met
- 12 What a botanist can learn from a dog
- 13 Bears, drugs and guns
- 14 Clever Aotearoa New Zealand birds
- 15 Expect the unexpected when dealing with the devil
- 16 Outfoxed by a jackal, and other tales from the Indian savanna
- 17 Finding frogs in the most unexpected of places
- 18 Encounters with mountain gorillas
- 19 Lazy lions and hungry hyaenas
- 20 Don’t be a lemming
- 21 Places where a kea’s beak shouldn’t be
- 22 Coral slime, feisty fish, shark encounters and the importance of looking up
- 23 People are strange: studying nature in cities
- 24 A dingo gold mine
- 25 Bogged in the desert
- Index to locations and species