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1 online resource : color illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Monkey business -- Monkey matchmaking -- Tropical diseases -- Father care -- Monkey in the moon -- Into the Amazon -- Green cathedral -- Jungle tales -- The return of gringa valiente -- The lone ranger -- Harpy eagle and the big fig -- Darkness brightens. |
| Summary |
Before primatologist Patricia Chapple Wright became the world's foremost expert on lemurs, she was enchanted by another primate-Aotus, the owl monkey, or ""monkey of the night."" But along her journey to discover the behavior of these unique nocturnal creatures, Wright finds more than she expected about family, human nature, and herself. It all starts in a New York City pet shop when Wright and her husband buy an owl monkey whose lively and rambunctious ways soon lead the young couple to South America to acquire him a mate. But while Wright's monkey family is growing, her own begins to fall ap. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Wright, Patricia C., 1944-
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Wright, Patricia C., 1944- |
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Wright, Patricia C., 1944- |
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Night monkeys.
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Night monkeys. |
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Night monkeys -- Behavior -- Research -- Peru.
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Research. |
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Peru. |
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Titis (Mammals) -- Behavior -- Research -- Peru.
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Titis (Mammals) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Wright, Patricia C., 1944- High moon over the Amazon 9781590564219 (DLC) 2012046017 (OCoLC)829935842 |
| ISBN |
9781590564226 (electronic book) |
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1590564227 (electronic book) |
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9781590564219 |
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1590564219 |
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