Nature of the Rainforest: Costa Rica and Beyond [Audiobook] download free by Adrian Forsyth
- Listen audiobook: Nature of the Rainforest: Costa Rica and Beyond
- Author: Adrian Forsyth
- Release date: 2008/3/12
- Publisher: CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780801474750
- Rating: 8.02 of 10
- Votes: 349
- Review by: Dimitri Brooks
- Review rating: 7.96 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/13
- Duration: 2H26M5S in 256 kbps (40 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-21
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP4, WMA, MPEG4, MP3, WAV (compression 7Z, CBC, TAR.7Z, ZIP, RAR, TAR.BZ, Z)
- Total pages original book: 200
- Includes a PDF summary of 20 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 15M13S (4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A Zona Tropical Publication'The words 'tropical rainforest' may conjure up vistas populated by jaguars, brilliant macaws, and flowers amid the grandeur of towering buttressed trees. But the eager, expectant visitor is not regaled with the sight of charismatic vertebrates, gaudy birds, and luminous orchids. In the rainforest, close encounters with life that moves are usually rare but brilliant episodes; one is bedazzled for an instant and then left alone in the quiet greenery. Under such conditions, one must see the episode as part of a process; tracing the connections between organisms is the essence of rainforest appreciation.'-Nature of the RainforestNature of the Rainforest is a breathtaking tour of an environment that is the pinnacle of biodiversity and evolutionary sophistication by an award-winning author and two photographers who love the rainforest, understand its intricacies, and have spent considerable time there documenting its wildlife and complexity. Adrian Forsyth draws on four decades of personal encounters with the animals of the rainforest-including poison-dart frogs, three-toed sloths, bushmasters, and umbrellabirds-as a starting point to communicate key ecological topics such as biodiversity, coevolution, rarity, chemical defense, nutrient cycling, and camouflage. The luminous photographs capture stunning and rare creatures in action, including the now- extinct golden toad mating, a jaguar on the prowl, and the hermit hummingbird feeding. The behaviors and characteristics of the rainforest inhabitants featured here not only illustrate the text but also advance the scientific narrative and exemplify the critical importance of conservation. Thematic chapters are interspersed with four chapters devoted to specific habitats and regions of Costa Rica and Peru, areas with some of the most diverse arrays of plant and animal species in the world. The result is an exuberant celebration of the rainforest in text and images.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Forests, Rainforests, History Of The Americas, Animals & Nature In Art (still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc), Earth: Natural History General, Photographs: Collections, Photography, Applied Ecology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 39.90 USD
- Dimensions: 260x286x20.32mm
- Weight: 1,077g
- Printed by: Comstock Publishing Associates
- Published in: Ithaca, United States
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