The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780544809086)

If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone. Most of the people who live near tapir habitat in Brazil's vast Pantanal ("the Everglades on steroids") haven't seen the elusive snorkel-snouted mammal, either. In this arresting nonfiction picture book, Sibert winners Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop join a tapir-finding expedition led by the Brazilian field scientist Pati Medici. Aspiring scientists will love the immediate, often humorous "you are there" descriptions of fieldwork, and gadget lovers will revel in the high-tech science at play, from microchips to the camera traps that capture the "soap opera" of tapir life.

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Author: Sy Montgomery, Nic Bishop
ISBN-10: 0544809084
ISBN-13: 9780544809086
Publisher: Clarion Books
Language: English
Published: 02/07/2017
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 11.00w x 0.30d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.4
Point Value: 3
Interest Level: Middle Grade
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