Dragon songs : love and adventure among crocodiles, alligators, and other dinosaur relations /
Dinets, Vladimir.
Dragon songs : love and adventure among crocodiles, alligators, and other dinosaur relations / Vladimir Dinets. - First edition. - xvi, 318 pages : photographs, color plates ; 24 cm
Prologue -- The morning chorus : Alligator mississippiensis -- The night dance : Alligator mississippiensis -- Learning the basics : Alligator mississippiensis -- Dragon reborn : Alligator sinensis -- Missing a shot : Caiman yacare -- Honest courtship : Crocodylus palustris -- Hunting on shore : Crocodylus acutus -- Companions of the river : Gavialis gangeticus -- The numbers game : Alligator mississippiensis -- Crocodiles in permafrost : Tagarosuchus kulemzini -- River world : Caiman niger -- Vibrating toy : Paleosuchus palpebrosus -- Tales of love and friendship : Cayman yacare -- Help from the sky : Cayman yacare -- Logging observations : Crocodylus acutus -- Sadness and hope : Crocodylus intermedius -- Natural selection : Paleosuchus trigonatus -- Politics of extinction : Crocodylus moreletii -- Island romance : Crocodylus rhombifer -- Scientific testing : Alligator mississippiensis -- Navigating Africa : Crocodylus niloticus -- Masters of the Bush : Crocodylus niloticus -- Traps on trails : Crocodylus niloticus -- The rainy season : Crocodylus niloticus -- Dangerous crossings : Crocodylus acutus -- The place we are from : Crocodylus niloticus -- Paradise in hell : Crocodylus niloticus -- The land of lost opportunities : Osteolaemus tetraspis -- Dense woods : Mecistops cataphractus -- Shades and shadows : Osteolaemus tetraspis -- Moving home : Alligator mississippiensis -- Ghost hunt : Tomistoma schlegelii -- Island hopping : Crocodylus porosus -- Horror stories : Crocodylus porosus -- The wrong flood : Caiman latirostris -- Unsolved riddles : Alligator mississippiensis -- Finding answers : Caiman crocodilus -- Through the mist : Crocodylus acutus -- The last song : Crocodylus siamensis -- Epilogue.
9781611458930 (alkaline paper)
2013028034
Dinets, Vladimir--Travel.
Crocodiles--Behavior.
Alligators--Behavior.
Animal communication.
Sexual behavior in animals.
Crocodiles--Ecology.
Alligators--Ecology.
QL666.C925 / D54 2013
597.98/2
Dragon songs : love and adventure among crocodiles, alligators, and other dinosaur relations / Vladimir Dinets. - First edition. - xvi, 318 pages : photographs, color plates ; 24 cm
Prologue -- The morning chorus : Alligator mississippiensis -- The night dance : Alligator mississippiensis -- Learning the basics : Alligator mississippiensis -- Dragon reborn : Alligator sinensis -- Missing a shot : Caiman yacare -- Honest courtship : Crocodylus palustris -- Hunting on shore : Crocodylus acutus -- Companions of the river : Gavialis gangeticus -- The numbers game : Alligator mississippiensis -- Crocodiles in permafrost : Tagarosuchus kulemzini -- River world : Caiman niger -- Vibrating toy : Paleosuchus palpebrosus -- Tales of love and friendship : Cayman yacare -- Help from the sky : Cayman yacare -- Logging observations : Crocodylus acutus -- Sadness and hope : Crocodylus intermedius -- Natural selection : Paleosuchus trigonatus -- Politics of extinction : Crocodylus moreletii -- Island romance : Crocodylus rhombifer -- Scientific testing : Alligator mississippiensis -- Navigating Africa : Crocodylus niloticus -- Masters of the Bush : Crocodylus niloticus -- Traps on trails : Crocodylus niloticus -- The rainy season : Crocodylus niloticus -- Dangerous crossings : Crocodylus acutus -- The place we are from : Crocodylus niloticus -- Paradise in hell : Crocodylus niloticus -- The land of lost opportunities : Osteolaemus tetraspis -- Dense woods : Mecistops cataphractus -- Shades and shadows : Osteolaemus tetraspis -- Moving home : Alligator mississippiensis -- Ghost hunt : Tomistoma schlegelii -- Island hopping : Crocodylus porosus -- Horror stories : Crocodylus porosus -- The wrong flood : Caiman latirostris -- Unsolved riddles : Alligator mississippiensis -- Finding answers : Caiman crocodilus -- Through the mist : Crocodylus acutus -- The last song : Crocodylus siamensis -- Epilogue.
9781611458930 (alkaline paper)
2013028034
Dinets, Vladimir--Travel.
Crocodiles--Behavior.
Alligators--Behavior.
Animal communication.
Sexual behavior in animals.
Crocodiles--Ecology.
Alligators--Ecology.
QL666.C925 / D54 2013
597.98/2