Vladimir Dinets
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Featuring hundreds of behaviors and enhanced by maps and sighting tips, Wildlife Spectacles is organized by three themes: migrations, mating behaviors, and everyday marvels. From bison to butterflies, nature's creatures renew our sense of wonder and our commitment to ensuring that such precious spectacles endure.
Author
Language
English
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A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic-survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else-until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations-a form...