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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aJackson, Kate _eautore
245	1	0	_aMean and Lowly Things : _bSnakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo / _cKate Jackson.
264		1	_aCambridge, MA : _bHarvard University Press, _c[2009]
264		4	_c2010
300			_a1 online resource (336 p.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tPrologue -- _t1. How It All Started -- _t2. Back to the Congo -- _t3. In Limbo -- _t4. The Flooded Forest -- _t5. Neighbors, Nets, and Nothing -- _t6. The Red Snake -- _t7. A Bottle of Snakes -- _t8. A Day of Monsters -- _t9. Time to Go -- _t10. Red Tape Revisited -- _t11. Planning My Return -- _t12. Back to the Likouala -- _t13. This Is Impongui -- _t14. Snake Medicine -- _t15. Making Herpetologists -- _t16. The Home Stretch -- _t17. A Stressful Day -- _t18. Kende Malamu -- _tEpilogue -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her.Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is Jackson’s unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis—coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest.The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and Jackson’s mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist there—a crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakes—and that there’s a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Oct 2024)
650		0	_aHerpetologists _vCanada _vBiography.
650		0	_aHerpetologists _zCanada _vBiography.
650		0	_aPoisonous snakes _vCongo (Brazzaville) _vAnecdotes.
650		0	_aPoisonous snakes _zCongo (Brazzaville) _vAnecdotes.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039025
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039025
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