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Author: Jackson, Donna M.,,1959

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The elephant scientist /

Caitlin O'Connell loved to study nature as a child, and her mother helped her appreciate the world by paying attention to details. These early observational skills served her well through the years as she grew up to be a scientist working in the sprawling African scrub desert of the Etosha Nati...

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Main Authors: O'Connell, Caitlin, 1965
Corporate Authors: Houghton Mifflin Books for Children; Yay! Design Firm; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Group Author: Jackson, Donna M., 1959; Rodwell, T. C
Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Publisher Address: Boston :
Publication Dates: [2011]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Scientists in the field
Subjects:
O'Connell, Caitlin, > 1965- > Juvenile literature
O'Connell, Caitlin, > 1965
O'Connell, Caitlin
Women scientists > Biography > Juvenile literature
Women scientists > Africa > Juvenile literature
African elephant > Namibia > Juvenile literature
African elephant > Behavior > Research > Juvenile literature
Elephants > Juvenile literature
Natural history > Juvenile literature
Deserts > Juvenile literature
Scientists > Juvenile literature
African elephant > Namibia
African elephant > Behavior
African elephant > Research
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Animals > Elephants
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Animals > Mammals
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Girls & Women
JUVENILE NONFICTION > People & Places > Africa
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Biology
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Environmental Conservation & Protection
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Science & Nature > Environmental Science & Ecosystems
JUVENILE NONFICTION > Travel
African elephant > Behavior > Juvenile literature
Picture books
Women scientists > Biography
African elephant
Deserts
Elephants
Natural history
Scientists
Women scientists
African elephants > Namibia
African elephants > Behavior > Research
Africa
Namibia
Literature
Biographies
Juvenile works
Dust jackets Bindings > 2011 Binding
Summary: Caitlin O'Connell loved to study nature as a child, and her mother helped her appreciate the world by paying attention to details. These early observational skills served her well through the years as she grew up to be a scientist working in the sprawling African scrub desert of the Etosha National Park in Namibia, Africa. This book takes you on a journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, the American scientist who became known as "the mother of all elephants," and follows her research as she witnesses groundbreaking discoveries about one of nature's largest, most complex, and m
Item Description: Book design by YAY! Design ; Manufactured in China"--Opposite title page.
Carrier Form: 70 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Audience: Middle School.
1260
Awards: Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2012
Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, 2012
Junior Library Guild Selection
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (page 69) and index.
ISBN: 9780544668300
0544668308
Index Number: QL737
CLC: Q959.845-49
Call Number: Q959.845-49/O181
Contents: Unearthing elephant secrets -- Slippery beginnings -- Call of the wild -- Living large -- Elephant species -- Sensitive souls -- Science on the savannah -- The herds at Etosha -- Wild bulls -- Fancy footwork -- School days -- Settling into camp -- Ears to the ground -- Donna the scholar -- Lab elephant -- Caller IDs -- The trail ahead : bull societies -- Season's end -- Elephants in peril -- Adopt an elephant -- Explorations -- Pachyderm terms.

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