Tue April 29, 2014
SF Bay American Cetacean Society presents Pamela S. Turner
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at Saylor's Restaurant and Bar
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The answer to that question can't be found in a concrete tank. If you want to know why dolphins are smart, you must ask: What is happening in the dolphins' natural environment? Why does a dolphin need to be smart?
Please join us for a presentation by science writer Pamela Turner, author of the new book THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY. Shark Bay, Western Australia is the most important bottlenose dolphin study site in the world, and Pamela will bring us the story of Georgetown University professor Janet Mann and the Shark Bay Dolphin Project. Research in Shark Bay has resulted in one stunning discovery after another, such as fiendishly sophisticated alliances among male dolphins and astonishing innovations in feeding techniques by female dolphins, including beaching, shell-shaking, and tool use. This special event that is sure to inspire future scientists as well as dolphin-lovers of all ages.
Copies of THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY, a book for ages ten and up, will be for sale at the event. Pamela Turner lives in Oakland and is the author of eight books, including PROWLING THE SEAS: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN WORLD OF OCEAN PREDATORS, THE FROG SCIENTIST, and PROJECT SEAHORSE. Visit her at https://www.pamelasturner.com."
Biography:
Pamela S. Turner is the author of Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog, Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, Life on Earth—and Beyond: An Astrobiologist’s Quest, Prowling the Seas: The Hidden Lives of Ocean Predators, A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, The Frog Scientist, and Project Seahorse. She has received a Golden Kite for Nonfiction and Golden Kite Honor Award for picture book text from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Writing Prize, the ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, the Flora Steiglitz Straus Nonfiction Award, the Cybils Nonfiction Award, and American Library Association Notable Book recognition. She lives in Oakland, California and volunteers as a wildlife rehabilitator with the Lindsay Wildlife Hospital.
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Please join us for a presentation by science writer Pamela Turner, author of the new book THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY. Shark Bay, Western Australia is the most important bottlenose dolphin study site in the world, and Pamela will bring us the story of Georgetown University professor Janet Mann and the Shark Bay Dolphin Project. Research in Shark Bay has resulted in one stunning discovery after another, such as fiendishly sophisticated alliances among male dolphins and astonishing innovations in feeding techniques by female dolphins, including beaching, shell-shaking, and tool use. This special event that is sure to inspire future scientists as well as dolphin-lovers of all ages.
Copies of THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY, a book for ages ten and up, will be for sale at the event. Pamela Turner lives in Oakland and is the author of eight books, including PROWLING THE SEAS: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN WORLD OF OCEAN PREDATORS, THE FROG SCIENTIST, and PROJECT SEAHORSE. Visit her at https://www.pamelasturner.com."
Biography:
Pamela S. Turner is the author of Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog, Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, Life on Earth—and Beyond: An Astrobiologist’s Quest, Prowling the Seas: The Hidden Lives of Ocean Predators, A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, The Frog Scientist, and Project Seahorse. She has received a Golden Kite for Nonfiction and Golden Kite Honor Award for picture book text from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Writing Prize, the ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, the Flora Steiglitz Straus Nonfiction Award, the Cybils Nonfiction Award, and American Library Association Notable Book recognition. She lives in Oakland, California and volunteers as a wildlife rehabilitator with the Lindsay Wildlife Hospital.
The answer to that question can't be found in a concrete tank. If you want to know why dolphins are smart, you must ask: What is happening in the dolphins' natural environment? Why does a dolphin need to be smart?
Please join us for a presentation by science writer Pamela Turner, author of the new book THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY. Shark Bay, Western Australia is the most important bottlenose dolphin study site in the world, and Pamela will bring us the story of Georgetown University professor Janet Mann and the Shark Bay Dolphin Project. Research in Shark Bay has resulted in one stunning discovery after another, such as fiendishly sophisticated alliances among male dolphins and astonishing innovations in feeding techniques by female dolphins, including beaching, shell-shaking, and tool use. This special event that is sure to inspire future scientists as well as dolphin-lovers of all ages.
Copies of THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY, a book for ages ten and up, will be for sale at the event. Pamela Turner lives in Oakland and is the author of eight books, including PROWLING THE SEAS: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN WORLD OF OCEAN PREDATORS, THE FROG SCIENTIST, and PROJECT SEAHORSE. Visit her at https://www.pamelasturner.com."
Biography:
Pamela S. Turner is the author of Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog, Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, Life on Earth—and Beyond: An Astrobiologist’s Quest, Prowling the Seas: The Hidden Lives of Ocean Predators, A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, The Frog Scientist, and Project Seahorse. She has received a Golden Kite for Nonfiction and Golden Kite Honor Award for picture book text from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Writing Prize, the ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, the Flora Steiglitz Straus Nonfiction Award, the Cybils Nonfiction Award, and American Library Association Notable Book recognition. She lives in Oakland, California and volunteers as a wildlife rehabilitator with the Lindsay Wildlife Hospital.
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Please join us for a presentation by science writer Pamela Turner, author of the new book THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY. Shark Bay, Western Australia is the most important bottlenose dolphin study site in the world, and Pamela will bring us the story of Georgetown University professor Janet Mann and the Shark Bay Dolphin Project. Research in Shark Bay has resulted in one stunning discovery after another, such as fiendishly sophisticated alliances among male dolphins and astonishing innovations in feeding techniques by female dolphins, including beaching, shell-shaking, and tool use. This special event that is sure to inspire future scientists as well as dolphin-lovers of all ages.
Copies of THE DOLPHINS OF SHARK BAY, a book for ages ten and up, will be for sale at the event. Pamela Turner lives in Oakland and is the author of eight books, including PROWLING THE SEAS: EXPLORING THE HIDDEN WORLD OF OCEAN PREDATORS, THE FROG SCIENTIST, and PROJECT SEAHORSE. Visit her at https://www.pamelasturner.com."
Biography:
Pamela S. Turner is the author of Hachiko: The True Story of a Loyal Dog, Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes, Life on Earth—and Beyond: An Astrobiologist’s Quest, Prowling the Seas: The Hidden Lives of Ocean Predators, A Life in the Wild: George Schaller’s Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts, The Frog Scientist, and Project Seahorse. She has received a Golden Kite for Nonfiction and Golden Kite Honor Award for picture book text from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s Science Writing Prize, the ASPCA Henry Bergh Award, the Flora Steiglitz Straus Nonfiction Award, the Cybils Nonfiction Award, and American Library Association Notable Book recognition. She lives in Oakland, California and volunteers as a wildlife rehabilitator with the Lindsay Wildlife Hospital.
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