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Chargement... Dragon Songs: Love and Adventure among Crocodiles, Alligators, and Other Dinosaur Relationspar Vladimir Dinets
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a story of my six-year study of the biology of crocodilians (crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials). Originally I was mostly interested in their songs, but then discovered other cool things like dances, coordinated hunts, and use of tools. My research was conducted in 26 countries; there were lots of adventures, interesting encounters, love stories and unexpected twists of fate. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The amazing story of a groundbreaking scientific quest over five continents to study our modern dinosaurs--that ends up changing a life, as well as our understanding about crocodiles and their relatives. A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic--survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else--until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations--a form of communication extremely rare in nature--and a "dance" unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling around the world on shoestring budgets and in extreme circumstances, studying almost every living species. At the same time, as a man desiring companionship in life, he sought love. With adventures on five continents, Dragon Songs is his account of this quest. It includes an escape from a boiling lava lake in the Afar Desert, being chased up a tree by a tiger in India, hitching a ride with a cocaine smuggler in Bolivia, and diving with giant Greenland sharks--all in the name of studying crocodiles, among which he routinely paddled in his inflatable kayak. Of course, not everything went according to plan. But, in the end, his ground-breaking research helped change the field. And during the course of his adventures, he met and courted his future wife. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)597.98Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Cold-blooded vertebrates, fishes Reptilia ; Reptiles CrocodiliansClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Along the way, Vladimir describes the countries he visits in fascinating detail. If you like travel books and crocs, this is the book for you. I won't pretend that I understand all of his research, but it's extremely interesting. Vladimir also finds love as he scours the globe for his research material.
An excellent edition for the armchair traveler and those interested in the world of crocodilians. ( )