Becoming A Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn To Live In The Wild
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Becoming A Tiger: How Baby Animals Learn To Live In The Wild
By (Author) Susan McCarthy
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
HarperPerennial
18th October 2005
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Applied ecology
Child, developmental and lifespan psychology
Age groups: children
Psychology
Reference works
Nature and the natural world: general interest
591.5
Physical Properties
Paperback
432
Width 155mm, Height 204mm, Spine 26mm
324g
Description
The co-author of When Elephants Weep shares natural wildlife stories to offer insight into the biological survival and learning processes of young animals, from a bear's efforts to preserve territory for her cubs to a bat's endeavor to win group acceptance. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Reviews
"BECOMING A TIGER takes a fascinating area of exploration ... and brings it to life in all its richness." -- Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D., author of Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days and Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism
Author Bio
Susan McCarthy is co-author (with Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson) of the New York Times bestseller When Elephants Weep. She holds degrees in biology and journalism, writes regularly for Salon.com, and has contributed to Best American Science Writing. She lives in San Francisco.
