The hyena scientist / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
The hyena scientist / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
The hyena scientist / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
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CL/0196
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Language
English
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Physical content
71 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Chapter One A most misunderstood mammal -- Chapter Two Fisi Camp -- Chapter Three Morning obs -- Chapter Four Maji mingi -- Chapter Five Kinda see 'em -- Chapter Six Clan war -- Chapter Seven The capture of McDonald's -- Chapter Eight Glimpses and revelations....
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Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
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Date Published
[2018]
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Summary
"Travel to the African bush with Sibert medal winning team Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop in this myth-busting new addition to the Scientists in the Field series as they join the internationally acclaimed woman researcher conducting one of the longest and most important studies of African mammals in the history of science."-- Provided by publisher.
Ernest Hemingway once claimed the hyena is a "sad yowler, camp-follower, stinking, foul, with jaws that crack the bones the lion leaves, belly dragging loping away on the brown plain ..." Many years later, in the movie The Lion King, Whoopi Goldberg famously voiced the skulking, sulking, hysterically giggling hyena that further cemented the general...
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The hyena scientist / text by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
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Scientists in the field
"African Plains-- where science meets adventure"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references (page 69) and index.
Audience note
Age 10-12.
Grade 4 to 6.
1000L Lexile
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CL/0196
Record Identifier
74VKVe78Mxyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVe78Mxyg
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ISBN
9780544635111
DDC
599.743072
MMS ID
991024253799102626
