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The Snake Scientist

The Snake Scientist Hardcover - 1999

by Sy Montgomery

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Snake Scientist
  • Author Sy Montgomery
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 48
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Houghton Mifflin
  • Date 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0395871697I4N00
  • ISBN 9780395871690 / 0395871697
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 11.41 x 0.39 in (23.70 x 28.98 x 0.99 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 7
  • Reading level 930
  • Library of Congress subjects Snakes, Zoologists
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98006124
  • Dewey Decimal Code 597.96

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Summary

Dr. Robert Mason, the current recipient of the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Award, has been studying a mysterious phenomenon for over fifteen years - one of the most extraordinary events of the natural world - the reemergence from a winter spent in a state of suspended animation in subterranean caverns of tens of thousands of red-sided garter snakes - the world's largest concentration of snakes. The work of scientists can often seem mysterious and intimidating to the nonscientist. No longer! Introducing an exciting perspective on the important work of scientists in all areas of research and study. Scientists in the Field show people immersed in the unpredictable and dynamic natural world, making science more accessible, relevant, and exciting to young readers. Far from the research laboratory, these books show first-hand adventures in the great outdoors - adventures with a purpose. From climbing into a snake den with thousands of slithering snakes to tracking wolves

Media reviews

"The lively text communicates both the meticulous measurements required in this kind of work and the thrill of new discoveries." SLJ, starred School Library Journal, Starred

"A stellar example of how good such books can be." --Booklist, starred Booklist, ALA, Starred Review

Each spring, 18,000 red-sided garter snakes emerge en masse from three underground dens in Manitoba, Canada, where they have spent the winter stacked on top of one another like cordwood. As the snakes spill out of the dens, Earthwatch volunteers and students gather them up and stuff them in pillowcases bought in bulk at the Salvation Army. The captured snakes then participate in a day's behavioral experiments directed by Bob Mason, a zoologist at Oregon State University. (In 1989 Mason identified the pheromone, or scent, that draws the male to the female garter snake.) The snakes might interact in colorful "arenas" that look like upended box kites or attempt to follow a path marked with scent through a maze. Mason is trying to figure out why female snakes prefer bigger males and how the snakes find their way to the marsh twenty miles away from the dens....A solid introduction to the ethos of experimental science as seen by a genial scientist with a research topic whose kid appeal is hard to beat.
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