Title:
The elephant scientist / by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson ; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell.
ISBN:
9780547053448
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Publication Information:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2011.
Physical Description:
70 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Contents:
Unearthing elephant secrets -- Slippery beginnings -- Call of the wild -- Living large. Elephant species -- Sensitive souls -- Science on the savannah -- The herds at Etosha. Wild bulls -- Fancy footwork -- School days -- Settling into camp -- Ears to the ground -- Donna the scholar. Lab elephant -- Caller IDs -- The trail ahead : bull societies -- Season's end -- Elephants in peril -- Adopt an elephant -- Explorations -- Pachyderm terms.
Summary:
Journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, an American scientist, and witness one of nature's largest , most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.4 2.0 144396.
Reading Counts RC 3-5 11. 6 Quiz: 54485.
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Audience:
1260L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocn609871192
Availability:
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