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The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them Paperback - 2002
by Elizabeth Royte
An engaging portrait of a community of biologists, The Tapir's Morning Bath is a behind-the-scenes account of life at a tropical research station that "conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] field work" (Science). On Panama's Barro Colorado Island, Elizabeth Royte works alongside the scientists -- counting seeds, sorting insects, collecting monkey dung, radiotracking fruit bats -- as they struggle to parse the intricate workings of the tropical rain forest. While showing the human side of the scientists at work, Royte explores the tensions between the slow pace of basic research and the reality of a world that may not have time to wait for answers.
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An engaging portrait of a community of biologists, The Tapir's Morning Bath is a behind-the-scenes account of life at a tropical research station that "conveys the uncertainties, frustrations, and joys of [scientific] field work" (Science). On Panama's Barro Colorado Island, Elizabeth Royte works alongside the scientists -- counting seeds, sorting insects, collecting monkey dung, radiotracking fruit bats -- as they struggle to parse the intricate workings of the tropical rain forest. While showing the human side of the scientists at work, Royte explores the tensions between the slow pace of basic research and the reality of a world that may not have time to wait for answers.
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GATUN LAKE, the enormous midsection of the Panama Canal, sprawls for thirty-seven kilometers around peninsulas of land, between fragments of drowned mountains, and over the Continental Divide.
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- Title The Tapir's Morning Bath: Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them
- Author Elizabeth Royte
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Mariner
- Date 2002-11-04
- Features Bibliography, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618257584 / 0618257586
- Weight 0.96 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.29 x 5.69 x 0.83 in (21.06 x 14.45 x 2.11 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Rain forest ecology - Panama - Barro, Rain forests - Research - Panama - Barro
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001024989
- Dewey Decimal Code 577.340
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- New York Times, 11/03/2002, Page 28
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