Bøger af Montgomery Sy Montgomery

Yellow blood, silk of steel, skeletons on the outside! These amazing attributes dont belong to comic book characters or alien life forms, but to Earths biggest and hairiest spiders: tarantulas. Here you are invited to follow Sam Marshall, spider scientist extraordinaire (hes never been bitten), as he explores the dense rainforest of French Guiana, knocking on the doors of tarantula burrows, trying to get a closer look at these incredible creatures. Youll also visit the largest comparative spider laboratory in Americawhere close to five hundred live tarantulas sit in towers of stacked shoeboxes and plastic containers, waiting for their turn to dazzle and astound the scientists who study them.

KAKAPO RESCUEgives young readers a first hand account of the efforts to save one of the worlds rarest and more unusual birds, the kakapo. Part of the Scientist in the Field series.

Dr. Robert Mason has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for over fifteen years: the reemergence of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes the worlds largest concentration of snakes after a winter spent in a state of suspended animation in subterranean caverns.This gathering each spring in the forests of Manitoba, Canada, is one of the most extraordinary events of the natural world and is the subject of study for Dr. Mason, a.k.a. the Snake Scientist.

Part of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, Chasing Cheetahs gives young readers a firsthand account of the efforts by theCheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia to save the world's fastestand Africa's most endangeredland animal: the cheetah.

The Tapir Scientist introduces young readers to one of the weirdest and most fascinating animals on the planet and recounts the extraordinary work of the dedicated scientists trying tosave them.

An amazing scientific journey through Mongolia insearch ofelusive snow leopards as told by the bestselling nonfiction author and photographer teamofSy Montgomery and Nic Bishop. A can't miss addition tothe paperback collection of Scientist in the Field titles.

Part of the award-winning Scientists in the Field series, The Octopus Scientists takes readers to the waters off of Moorea, Tahiti to study the mind of the mollusk. Follow scientists as they uncover the secrets of its advanced intelligence and learn what these thinking, feeling creatures have to teach us about the oceans, its animals,and ourselves.