Wildlife Spectacles: Mass Migrations, Mating Rituals, and Other Fascinating Animal Behaviors
Master zoologist Dinets takes us on an astonishing journey, as luminous images and clear prose teach us essential ecology lessons.
Dr. Cristina Eisenberg, Chief scientist of Earthwatch Institute
Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book!
People are captivated by wild animals—by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you’ll discover the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast, the dancing alligators of the Everglades, the synchronized blinking of fireflies near Tennessee, the swarms of feeding bats over the Mississippi River, the blue-glowing scorpions of the Southwest desert, hundreds of wintering tundra swans in New Jersey, and much more.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 320
- Book dimensions: 7 x 9 in. (230 x 180 mm.)
- Images: 251 color photos, 5 maps
- ISBN-10: 1604696710
- ISBN-13: 9781604696714
- Product code: 689671
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"Captivating and entrancing in both its information on a multitude of species and the full-color photographs throughout. Their stunning beauty is as much a reason to read this book as the text is."
—Shelf Awareness
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