Wild science : unexpected encounters when working in nature / editor, Helen P. Waudby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waudby, Helen P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology.

Fieldwork (Educational method).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 197 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Clayton VIC: CSIRO Publishing, [2024]

Summary:

Precarious, hilarious and thought-provoking stories from the front line of ecology fieldwork.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Foreword

Contents

Preface

About the editor

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

1: Ngarridjarrkbolknahnan kunred: Looking after Country together in West Arnhem Land

2: Avoiding arrest while chasing hedgehogs

3: The Big Roo Count: kangaroos, kids and calamity

4: In search of a kingdom

5: A leopard at the nursery door

6: If the gators don't get you, the bugs will

7: Raising rays

8: In pursuit of pollinators

9: Of absences and Amazonia

10: Caving for spiders

11: Some cockatoos I've met

12: What a botanist can learn from a dog

13: Bears, drugs and guns

14: Clever Aotearoa New Zealand birds

15: Expect the unexpected when dealing with the devil

16: Outfoxed by a jackal, and other tales from the Indian savanna

17: Finding frogs in the most unexpected of places

18: Encounters with mountain gorillas

19: Lazy lions and hungry hyaenas

20: Don't be a lemming

21: Places where a kea's beak shouldn't be

22: Coral slime, feisty fish, shark encounters and the importance of looking up

23: People are strange: studying nature in cities

24: A dingo gold mine

25: Bogged in the desert

Index to locations and species.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781486317653

1486317650

9781486317646

1486317642

OCLC:

1465265771