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Diane Ackerman

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4 picks · 1988–1991

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GOLDEN MONKEYS
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the golden lion tamarin monkey, and about a conservation program to reintroduce it to its natural environment in a. rain forest …

PENGUINS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about penguins. At San Diego's Sea World writer visits a laboratory where she observes king-penguin chicks, six weeks old. When their…

CROCODILEANS
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about alligators... Crocodilians, birds and dinosaurs had a common origin about 230 million years ago, in the Mesozoic Era, in a group …

BATS
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about bats. Writer follows Merlin D. Tuttle, a world authority on bats and the founder and science director of Bat Conservation …