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Dragon songs, love and adventure among crocodiles, alligators, and other dinosaur relations, Vladimir Dinets

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non fiction

Dragon songs

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Vladimir Dinets

love and adventure among crocodiles, alligators, and other dinosaur relations

With his artist's eye, scientist's precision, and explorer's free spirit, Dinets, a Russian immigrant and Louisiana State University professor, is no ordinary zoologist. Here, he leads readers on an intense and joyous global pursuit of the mating customs of crocodiles (as well as his own), chronicling the adventures in fieldwork that would inform his graduate thesis

Prologue -- The morning chorus : Alligator mississippiensis -- The night dance : Alligator mississippiensis -- Learning the basics : Alligator mississippiensis -- Dragon reborn : Alligator sinensis -- Missing a shot : Caiman yacare -- Honest courtship : Crocodylus palustris -- Hunting on shore : Crocodylus acutus -- Companions of the river : Gavialis gangeticus -- The numbers game : Alligator mississippiensis -- Crocodiles in permafrost : Tagarosuchus kulemzini -- River world : Caiman niger -- Vibrating toy : Paleosuchus palpebrosus -- Tales of love and friendship : Cayman yacare -- Help from the sky : Cayman yacare -- Logging observations : Crocodylus acutus -- Sadness and hope : Crocodylus intermedius -- Natural selection : Paleosuchus trigonatus -- Politics of extinction : Crocodylus moreletii -- Island romance : Crocodylus rhombifer -- Scientific testing : Alligator mississippiensis -- Navigating Africa : Crocodylus niloticus -- Masters of the Bush : Crocodylus niloticus -- Traps on trails : Crocodylus niloticus -- The rainy season : Crocodylus niloticus -- Dangerous crossings : Crocodylus acutus -- The place we are from : Crocodylus niloticus -- Paradise in hell : Crocodylus niloticus -- The land of lost opportunities : Osteolaemus tetraspis -- Dense woods : Mecistops cataphractus -- Shades and shadows : Osteolaemus tetraspis -- Moving home : Alligator mississippiensis -- Ghost hunt : Tomistoma schlegelii -- Island hopping : Crocodylus porosus -- Horror stories : Crocodylus porosus -- The wrong flood : Caiman latirostris -- Unsolved riddles : Alligator mississippiensis -- Finding answers : Caiman crocodilus -- Through the mist : Crocodylus acutus -- The last song : Crocodylus siamensis -- Epilogue