Portland Public Library

The elephant scientist, by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson ; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell

eng

Includes bibliographical references (page 69) and index

contains biographical information

mapsillustrations

index present

Middle School1260, Lexile

non fiction

The elephant scientist

bibliography

609871192

by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson ; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell

Scientists in the field

Accelerated Reader, 8.4.Reading Counts!, 11.0.

Caitlin O'Connell loved to study nature as a child, and her mother helped her appreciate the world by paying attention to details. These early observational skills served her well through the years as she grew up to be a scientist working in the sprawling African scrub desert of the Etosha National Park in Namibia, Africa. This book takes you on a journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, the American scientist who became known as "the mother of all elephants," and follows her research as she witnesses groundbreaking discoveries about one of nature's largest, most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth: the African elephant

Unearthing elephant secrets -- Slippery beginnings -- Call of the wild -- Living large -- Elephant species -- Sensitive souls -- Science on the savannah -- The herds at Etosha -- Wild bulls -- Fancy footwork -- School days -- Settling into camp -- Ears to the ground -- Donna the scholar -- Lab elephant -- Caller IDs -- The trail ahead : bull societies -- Season's end -- Elephants in peril -- Adopt an elephant -- Explorations -- Pachyderm terms

juvenile