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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
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Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Scientists in the field
Subjects:
O'Connell, Caitlin, > 1965- > Juvenile literature
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
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
Item Description: Book design by YAY! Design ; Manufactured in China"--opposite t.p.
Carrier Form: 70 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 24 cm.
Audience: Middle School
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 69) and index.
ISBN: 9780547053448 :
0547053444
Index Number: QL737
CLC: I712.8
Call Number: I712.8/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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