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Gr 6–8—Cheetahs, the smallest of the big cats, are superbly adapted to their habitat and to running down their prey with blinding bursts of speed. Here Montgomery focuses her scientific attention and literary craft on the work of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) and its efforts to save the cheetah from threatened extinction. Quartered in Namibia, CCF director Laurie Marker and her team analyze scat, measure trees where cheetahs congregate, coll...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Montgomery introduces readers to Laurie Marker and her team of conservationists, scientists, students, and animals at the Cheetah Conservation Fund's site in Namibia. The book opens with the remarkable description and sight (thanks to Bishop's outstanding photographs) of Marker, accompanied by Tiger Lily, a cheetah who has spent her life at the CCF as an "ambassador." Marker's dedication to saving the endangered cheetah population is readily apparent; she has spent decades in r...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Montgomery introduces readers to Laurie Marker and her team at the Cheetah Conservation Fund's site in Namibia. Scientific informa...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Another stellar addition to the Scientists in the Field series. Sy Montgomery’s absorbing, accessible text, together with Nic Bishop’s striking photographs, have an exciting, you-are-there feel. Readers will be interested to learn about Dr. Laurie Marker’s work (“The way to save cheetahs,” she insists, “is all about goats and dogs.”) and likely will be inspired by her story. Among other things, it shows what determination and creative thinking can accomplish: since Marker founded the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) twenty years ago, “Namibia’s cheetah population, once in free-fall, has doubled.” Offers a thorough look at scientists in action (a border colli...Log In or Sign Up to Read More