Sea turtle scientist
Title:
Sea turtle scientist
Author:
Swinburne, Stephen R, author.
ISBN:
9780547367552
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xiv, 65 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 24 x 29 cm.
Series:
Scientists in the field
Scientists in the field.
Contents:
Prologue: one in a thousand -- Meet the leatherback sea turtle -- Las tortugas : a history of the sea turtle -- The man who hunted sea turtles -- Science is hands and knees work -- The journey of the hatchlings -- The mystery of hatchling turtles -- It takes a community to save a sea turtle -- Saving sea turtles.
Abstract:
Explores the leatherback sea turtle's natural history and recounts the extraordinary efforts by scientists trying to save them.
