TY - BOOK AU - Goodman,Susan E. AU - Doolittle,Michael J. TI - Bats, bugs, and biodiversity: adventures in the Amazonian rain forest SN - 0689319436 AV - QH112 .G66 1995 U1 - 508.315/2/098543 20 PY - 1995/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Atheneum Books for Young Readers KW - Rain forest ecology KW - Amazon River Region KW - Juvenile literature KW - Ecology N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 45); The adventure begins -- A first look at Peru -- A trip down the Amazon -- Setting up base camp -- Up in the canopy -- The school visit -- A walk in the jungle -- Trading with the Yagua -- Other neat stuff -- Homeward bound N2 - Records the experiences of seventh-and eighth-grade students from Michigan who traveled to the Peruvian Amazon. There they explored the rain forest canopy and understory, learned about indigenous plant and animal life, visited a town school, traded with a native Amazonian tribe, and began to understand the economic pressures that lead to rain forest devastation and the sometimes complex results of simple actions UR - http://www.archive.org/details/batsbugsbiodiver00good UR - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL1109633M ER -