Heather Heying
Autor von Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar
Werke von Heather Heying
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Wissenswertes
- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Heying, Heather
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Heying, Heather E.
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- USA
- Wohnorte
- USA
- Ausbildung
- University of Michigan (PhD|Biology)
- Berufe
- author
writer
academic
podcaster - Beziehungen
- Weinstein, Bret (spouse)
Weinstein, Eric (brother-in-law)
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- Werke
- 2
- Mitglieder
- 46
- Beliebtheit
- #335,831
- Bewertung
- 3.6
- Rezensionen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 1
The last chapter does have more details about the actual frog study- this species was remarkable for being somewhat social, the males vying for small territories, not just breeding rights- and exhibiting some parental care. I would, as usual, liked to have read more about the animal behavior, but all the details of her trials and frustrations, her discoveries with the culture and what it was like to live in a place so very far away and lacking many conveniences and comforts we just take for granted, was plenty interesting in and of itself. One thing that stood out to me was how hard she found it to simply mark the individual frogs for identification. Apparently it's common practice for field biologists to tag frogs by cutting off certain toes! She didn't want to do that and tried other methods- including tying decorated waistbands around them, or sewing colored beads onto their skin, but finally (near the end of the book) found a way to tattoo the little amphibians.… (mehr)