What’s it like to study polar bears in the wild? How do you raise children among large carnivores? And how do you find a frog that no-one has seen for 40 years?
From deserts to rainforests and even the polar Arctic, scientists venture into the field to collect, observe and study the world’s organisms and the environments they live in. But even with the best planning, unexpected weather, unpredictable animals and unforeseen encounters can occur.
Wild Science: Unexpected Encounters When Working in Nature explores the precarious, hilarious and thought-provoking stories ‘behind the science’. It shows the value of these experiences, even when things don’t go right, and the importance of fieldwork for understanding our own place in the world.
Edited by:
Helen P. Waudby
Imprint: CSIRO Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9781486317639
ISBN 10: 1486317634
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 01 November 2024
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Foreword Ann Jones Preface About the editor Acknowledgements List of contributors 1: Ngarridjarrkbolknahnan kunred: Looking after Country together in West Arnhem Land Cara Penton, Terrah Guymala and Warddeken Rangers 2: Avoiding arrest while chasing hedgehogs Christopher R. Dickman 3: The Big Roo Count: kangaroos, kids and calamity Euan G. Ritchie 4: In search of a kingdom Pam Catcheside 5: A leopard at the nursery door Neil R. Jordan 6: If the gators don’t get you, the bugs will Laura Kojima 7: Raising rays Leonardo Guida 8: In pursuit of pollinators Manu E. Saunders 9: Of absences and Amazonia David M. Watson 10: Caving for spiders Jessica Marsh 11: Some cockatoos I’ve met Erika M. Roper 12: What a botanist can learn from a dog Laura M. Skates 13: Bears, drugs and guns Andrew E. Derocher 14: Clever Aotearoa New Zealand birds Isabel Castro 15: Expect the unexpected when dealing with the devil David G. Hamilton 16: Outfoxed by a jackal, and other tales from the Indian savanna Abi T. Vanak 17: Finding frogs in the most unexpected of places Jodi J. L. Rowley 18: Encounters with mountain gorillas Wayne Boardman 19: Lazy lions and hungry hyaenas Robert Heinsohn 20: Don’t be a lemming Jo Isaac 21: Places where a kea’s beak shouldn’t be Lydia McLean 22: Coral slime, feisty fish, shark encounters and the importance of looking up Tracy Ainsworth 23: People are strange: studying nature in cities Dieter F. Hochuli 24: A dingo gold mine Bradley P. Smith 25: Bogged in the desert Helen P. Waudby Index to locations and species
Dr Helen P. Waudby is an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Gulbali Institute at Charles Sturt University, and a conservation biologist with the NSW Government. She has over 20 years' experience in wildlife research and conservation, and also co-edited the book Wildlife Research in Australia: Practical and Applied Methods (CSIRO Publishing, 2022).
