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O'Connell, Caitlin, 1965-

The elephant scientist / by Caitlin O'Connell and Donna M. Jackson ; photographs by Caitlin O'Connell and Timothy Rodwell.

Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Books for Children : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.

70 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm

Caitlin O'Connell loved to study nature as a child, and her mother helped her appreciate the world by paying attention to details. These early observational skills served her well through the years as she grew up to be a scientist working in the sprawling African scrub desert of the Etosha National Park in Namibia, Africa. This book takes you on a journey to the Namibian desert with Caitlin O'Connell, the American scientist who became known as "the mother of all elephants," and follows her research as she witnesses groundbreaking discoveries about one of nature's largest, most complex, and most intelligent mammals living today on this earth: the African elephant.

Middle School.

1260 Lexile.

Scientists in the field

Scientists in the field.

O'Connell, Caitlin, 1965- -- Juvenile literature.

Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Women scientists -- Africa -- Juvenile literature.

African elephant -- Namibia -- Juvenile literature.

African elephant -- Behavior -- Research -- Juvenile literature.

Elephants -- Juvenile literature.

Natural history -- Juvenile literature.

Deserts -- Juvenile literature.

Scientists -- Juvenile literature.

Jackson, Donna M., 1959-

Rodwell, T. C.

Houghton Mifflin Books for Children.

Yay! Design (Firm)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Book design by YAY! Design ; Manufactured in China"--Opposite title page.

Includes bibliographical references (page 69) and index.

Accelerated Reader 8.4.

Reading Counts! 11.0.

Robert F. Sibert Honor, 2012

Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K-12, 2012

Junior Library Guild Selection

Unearthing elephant secrets -- Slippery beginnings -- Call of the wild -- Living large -- Elephant species -- Sensitive souls -- Science on the savannah -- The herds at Etosha -- Wild bulls -- Fancy footwork -- School days -- Settling into camp -- Ears to the ground -- Donna the scholar -- Lab elephant -- Caller IDs -- The trail ahead : bull societies -- Season's end -- Elephants in peril -- Adopt an elephant -- Explorations -- Pachyderm terms.

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