The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal

The Tapir Scientist: Saving South America's Largest Mammal

Wetlands: Scientists in the Field (Where Science Meets Adventure)

If you've never seen a lowland tapir, you're not alone.  Most of the people who live near its home in Brazil have never seen one either.  As one of nature's shyest loners, the tapir is hard to find, which makes it hard to save--and the tapir is rapidly disappearing.

But the field scientist Pati Medici is working tirelessly to reverse that.  Pati and her team are determined to save the tapir and preserve the Pantanal's exotic ecosystem in the process.  Pati's mission demands every resource her elite team can muster, from the latest telemetry technology and motion-sensor camera traps to sheer nerve and good luck. 

Your guides on this bushwhacking adventure are the veteran Scientists in the Field explorers Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop, who, along with Pati's team, dodge hungry pumas, endure massive tick swarms, and sidestep the venomous fer-de-lance, South America's deadliest snake.  

This book seamlessly blends eloquent text and vivid images to spotlight the gentle tapir and those field scientists whose lives are committed to conserve animal species for the sake of our environment and our humanity.

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• Age Level = 12 and up
• Book Author = Sy Montgomery
• Book Material = Paperback
• Book Publisher = Houghton Mifflin
• Book Series = Scientists in the Field
• Copyright = c2013
• Grade Level = 7 and up
• Illustrator = Nic Bishop
• Condition = New
• Subject = Literature