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Chasing cheetahs : the race to save Africa's fastest cats
- Title
- Chasing cheetahs : the race to save Africa's fastest cats / written by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
- Author
- Montgomery, Sy.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 15-111 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bishop, Nic, 1955-
- Description
- 75 pages : illustrations; 24 x 29 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Scientists in the field
- Uniform Title
- Scientists in the field.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFF 15-111
- ISBN
- 9780547815497 (hbk.)
- 0547815492 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013017611
- OCLC
- 851572749
- Author
- Montgomery, Sy.
- Title
- Chasing cheetahs : the race to save Africa's fastest cats / written by Sy Montgomery ; photographs by Nic Bishop.
- Imprint
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Scientists in the fieldScientists in the field.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Bishop, Nic, 1955- illustrator.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 15-111