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eBook details
- Title: Chasing Monarchs
- Author : Robert Michael Pyle & Lincoln P. Brower
- Release Date : January 29, 2014
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 7905 KB
Description
Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation, the received wisdom about the butterfliesâ long journey just didnât make sense. In the autumn of 1996 he set out to uncover the facts, to pursue the tide of âcinnamon sailorsâ on their long, mysterious flight.
Chasing Monarchs chronicles Pyleâs 9,000-mile journey to discover firsthand the secrets of the monarchsâ annual migration. Part road trip, part outdoor adventure, and part natural history study, Pyleâs book overturns old theories and provides insights both large and small regarding monarch butterflies, their biology, and their spectacular migratory travels. Since the bookâs first publication, its controversial conclusions have been fully confirmed, and monarchs are better understood than ever before. The Afterword for this volume includes not only updated information on the myriad threats to monarch butterflies, but also various efforts under way to ensure the future of the worldâs most amazing butterfly migration.