Title:
Chasing cheetahs : the race to save Africa's fastest cats / written by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
ISBN:
9780547815497
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Publication Information:
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
Physical Description:
75 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Contents:
Chapter 1. Meet the ambassadors -- Fast facts on the fastest cats -- Chapter 2. Laurie's story: "somebody" was me -- Chapter 3. Saving cats with dogs -- The goats who help train farmers -- Chapter 4. Messages written in scent -- Taking the measure of a tree -- Chapter 5. Cooking with poop and toasting hair -- Secrets of DNA -- Chapter 6. Game drive -- The crucial role of predators -- Conservancies: sharing the wealth of wildlife -- Chapter 7. boot camp for cheetahs -- Chapter 8. A checkup for Blondi -- Cheetahs by the numbers -- Chapter 9. A visit to the future -- Laurie's advise for saving the world.
Summary:
Describes the cheetah's essential role in the ecosystem and the ways in which Namibia's Cheetah Conservation Fund is promoting cohabitation between cheetahs and farmers.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.5 3.0 164498.
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Audience:
1000L Lexile
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OCLC Number:
ocn851572749
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