Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive by Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw

Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive

In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists...
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Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive by Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw

Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive

Dhs. 127.17

Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive

Dhs. 127.17
Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
In this addition to the critically acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, Dorothy Patent follows the scientists trying to put a stop to a gruesome disease before it's too late. Tasmanian devils are dying at an alarming rate from a type of tumor that appears to be contagious. What scientists are learning while researching the Tasmanian devil has potential to affect all animals, and even humans, as they learn more about how to prevent and hopefully eradicate certain genetic diseases.

In 1995, a deadly disease began sweeping across the Australian island state of Tasmania, killing every infected Tasmanian devil. The disease moved so fast that some scientists feared the species would be wiped out in the wild within a few decades.

Where did this disease, named Devil Facial Tumor Disease, come from? What caused it--a virus, bacteria, or something else? How did it pass from one devil to another? What could be done to fight it?

When author Dorothy Hinshaw Patent learned of the race to save the devil from her friend, Australian geneticist Jenny Graves, she felt compelled to travel to Australia to learn firsthand from scientists what they were finding out about these iconic Tasmanian animals and what they were doing to help it from disappearing in the wild.

Follow Dorothy as she takes readers on a fascinating journey into the Australian mainland and Tasmania, visiting parks and wildlife refuges and joining geneticist, ecologists, and other researchers as they work tirelessly to save Tasmania's unique icon.


Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 08/20/2019
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 11.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780544991484
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 2
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 504416 / Saving the Tasmanian Devil: How Science Is Helping the World's Largest Marsupial Carnivore Survive


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2019 pg. 127
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2019
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2019 pg. 119
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2019 - Superior,Well Above Average

About the Author
Dorothy Hinshaw Patent holds a Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives with her husband in Missoula, Montana. You can learn more about her on her web site: www.dorothyhinshawpatent.com.

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