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Author:

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw, author.

Title:

Saving the Tasmanian devil : how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent.

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

79 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm

Subject:

Tasmanian devil--Diseases--Juvenile literature.
Epidemics--Tasmania--Tasmania--Juvenile literature.
Tumors--Juvenile literature.
Genetic disorders--Juvenile literature.
Wildlife conservation--Tasmania--Tasmania--Juvenile literature.
Wildlife rescue--Tasmania--Tasmania--Juvenile literature.
Tasmania--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

"Conservation - Scientists in the field, where science meets adventure"-- cover. Includes bibliography (pages 76-77) and index.

Contents:

The unfolding of a disaster -- Life of the devil -- Meeting the devil -- Where devils live wild -- Tasmanian devils in action -- Into the heart of a devil rescue -- Developing a vaccine -- Adventure in the wild -- Looking into the future.

Summary:

"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 ita 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 Tasmanias unique icon."-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Scientists in the field

ISBN:

0544991486
9780544991484

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1049576278

LCCN:

2018034813

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