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A Naturalist on a Tropical Farm / Alexander F. Skutch.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skutch, Alexander F., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Skutch, Alexander F. (Alexander Frank), 1904-2004.
- Skutch, Alexander F.
- Natural history--Costa Rica.
- Natural history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (408 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2020
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Farm
- 2. A Tropical Year
- 3. My First Harvest
- 4. The Thatched Shed
- 5. Small Mlammals
- 6. The Friendly Bicolored Antbird
- 7. The Banana Plantation
- 8. Scarlet Passion-flowers & Hermit Hummingbirds
- 9. Speckled Tanagers
- 10. Quadruped Partners
- 11. Chickens with Personality
- 12. An Appraisal
- 13. Family Life of the Golden-naped Woodpecker
- 14. Which Should I Protect?
- 15. Cooperation with Ants
- 16. The Rocky Channel
- 17. The Singing Wood-Rail
- 18. The Flame-of-the-Forest Tree
- 19. Casual Visitors
- 20. The Patient Puffbirds
- 21. Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Birds
- 22. Excursions to Guanacaste
- 23. Photosynthesis and Predation
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Apr 2021)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780520319974
- 0520319974
- OCLC:
- 1243311361
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