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Smitten by giraffe : my life as a citizen scientist /
"When Anne Innis saw her first giraffe at the age of three, she was smitten. She knew she had to learn more about this marvelous animal. Twenty years later, now a trained zoologist, she set off alone to Africa to study the behavior of giraffe in the wild. Years later, Jane Goodall and Dian Foss...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Footprints (Cheltenham, England) ;
22. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Family life
- Giraffe research in Africa
- Research, first teaching, and earning a PhD
- Being a professor: teaching and research
- Completing research on animal gaits
- First scientific book on giraffe!
- Environmental efforts, 1972-1988
- A potpourri of interests, 1972-1980
- A sexist university: how bad was it? Awful!
- Social activism: working for equality for women in the arts
- Follow-up: homosexuality, taxonomy, and mammalogists
- Women and science at Canadian universities
- Follow-up: university life, sociobiology, infanticide, and rape
- Focusing again on animals
- Return to giraffe.