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The Tapir's Morning Bath Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them Trade cloth - 2001
by Elizabeth Royte
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One hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin asked how a rain forest could contain so many species: What explains the riot?” The same question occupies the scientists who toil on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island today. Tropical and steamy, these six square miles comprise the best-studied rain forest in the world, a locus of scientific activity since 1923.
In THE TAPIR'S MORNING BATH, Elizabeth Royte weaves together her own adventures on Barro Colorado with tales of researchers struggling to parse the intricate workings of the rain forest, the most complicated natural system on the planet. Through the lens of the field station, she also traces the history of modern biology from its earliest days of collection and classification through the decline of the naturalist to the days of intense niche specialization and rigorous scientific quantification.
As Royte counts seeds and sorts insects, collects monkey dung and radiotracks bats, she begins to wonder: what is the point of such arcane studies? The world over, rain forests are rapidly disappearing and species are going extinct. While humanizing the scientists in the field, she explores the tension between their research and the reality of a world that may not have time for the answers.
In THE TAPIR'S MORNING BATH, Elizabeth Royte weaves together her own adventures on Barro Colorado with tales of researchers struggling to parse the intricate workings of the rain forest, the most complicated natural system on the planet. Through the lens of the field station, she also traces the history of modern biology from its earliest days of collection and classification through the decline of the naturalist to the days of intense niche specialization and rigorous scientific quantification.
As Royte counts seeds and sorts insects, collects monkey dung and radiotracks bats, she begins to wonder: what is the point of such arcane studies? The world over, rain forests are rapidly disappearing and species are going extinct. While humanizing the scientists in the field, she explores the tension between their research and the reality of a world that may not have time for the answers.
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GATUN LAKE, the enormous midsection of the Panama Canal, sprawls for thirty-seven kilometers around peninsulas of land, between fragments of drowned mountains, and over the Continental Divide.
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- Title The Tapir's Morning Bath Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest and the Scientists Who Are Trying to Solve Them
- Author Elizabeth Royte
- Binding Trade Cloth
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 328
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date September 26, 2001
- ISBN 9780395979976
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"Intriguing . . . a finely drawn chronicle of fieldwork, with an appealing moral edge." Kirkus Reviews
"Excellent . . . a superb introduction to tropical ecology and theoretical biology, as well as original and thoroughly engaging travel writing." Publishers Weekly
"Royte is a remarkable writer . . . a perfect guide. The book is a charmer; I loved it." The New York Times Book Review
"An excellent overview of the need for tropical research . . . an excellent book for all libraries." Library Journal
"By turns comic and poetic, delivers the pleasures of a meandering excursion . . . the act of observing is its own reward." The New Yorker
"Elizabeth Royte's book represents a moving and satisfying step forward in nature writing." Providence Journal
"Excellent . . . a superb introduction to tropical ecology and theoretical biology, as well as original and thoroughly engaging travel writing." Publishers Weekly
"Royte is a remarkable writer . . . a perfect guide. The book is a charmer; I loved it." The New York Times Book Review
"An excellent overview of the need for tropical research . . . an excellent book for all libraries." Library Journal
"By turns comic and poetic, delivers the pleasures of a meandering excursion . . . the act of observing is its own reward." The New Yorker
"Elizabeth Royte's book represents a moving and satisfying step forward in nature writing." Providence Journal
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