A. Peter Klimley
Autor de The Secret Life of Sharks: A Leading Marine Biologist Reveals the Mysteries of Shark Behavior
Sobre El Autor
A. Peter Klimley is an internationally known marine biologist. An adjunct associate professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at the University of California, Davis, Dr. Klimley has published articles on sharks in American Scientist, Natural History, and other popular mostrar más magazines, as well as more than fifty scientific articles. He has appeared in numerous film documentaries worldwide. A coauthor of the leading academic book on great white sharks, Dr. Klimley lives in Petaluma, California. mostrar menos
Obras de A. Peter Klimley
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1947-03-07
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- White Plains, New York, USA
- Educación
- State University of New York, Stony Brook (BS|Zoology)
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (MS|Biological Oceanography)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (PhD|Marine Biology) - Ocupaciones
- biologist (marine)
professor (college)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 82
- Popularidad
- #220,761
- Valoración
- 4.3
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 8
The two major studies detailed are of hammerhead sharks -- trying to understand why they school in great numbers in certain locations, and how they navigate -- and great white sharks -- trying to understand how they hunt, and how they interact with each other. (Were I a scientific reviewer, I might argue that the author is too eager to ascribe intelligence and social characteristics to sharks, before collecting bulletproof data. Also, some of his math -- for example, the "fuzzy logic" used for measuring great white shark tail slapping social displays -- is a bit immature.) The book concludes with a sobering chapter on the disappearance of the hammerhead schools the author had studied.… (más)