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Adventures
in the Wild
Tales from Biologists of the Natural State
Edited by Joy Trauth and Aldemaro Romero
Foreword by Cristián Samper, Acting Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution
Throw the dog to the Orca
“The stories in this book . . . illustrate the excitement
associated with the field work carried out by biologists around
the world every day. The stories reveal the exhilaration felt
by biologists when discovering new information and collecting
new specimens of plants and animals . . . [and] show us how
important biological collections are for the understanding
and conservation of our natural heritage worldwide.”
—Cristián Samper, from the foreword
“Very readable, witty, informative, well-edited and
nicely done by the multiple authors, divided among various
interests, aquatic versus terrestrial, botanical versus zoological.”
—Henry W. Robison, Southern Arkansas University
The true tales in this collection will take readers from the
chicken houses of Arkansas to the caves of Venezuela and Mexico
to the coast of Alaska. These fifteen adventures range from
amusing to life threatening. Some are filled with suspense
and danger in exotic places, while others document more routine
but important biological field and lab work.
Meet the roommate with the rash that wouldn't go away, a friendly
bull, some blind cave fish, killer whales, drug smugglers,
and hairy roots that are used to produce new medicines. Read
about researchers crawling through rotten-egg-smelling muck
in search of an elusive mosquitofish, diving into the cold
black water of the White River in search of mussels, flying
with bush pilots in Alaska, and working with David Attenborough
in Arkansas. Here are teachers and researchers, biologists
all, all from one university, real people who get their feet
wet and their hands dirty in the pursuit of knowledge.
Joy Trauth is an instructor in the Department
of Biological Sciences at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro.
Aldemaro Romero is professor and chair of
the department.
May
2008
6 x 9, 160 pages, 35 black and white photographs, index
$19.95 paper
ISBN 978-1-55728-872-1 | 1-55728-872-0
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