The manatee scientists saving vulnerable species

Series: Scientists in the field (Houghton Mifflin)

• Once a wolf: how wildlife biologists fought to bring back the gray wolf

• The wildlife detectives: how forensic scientists fight crimes against nature

• Anthropologist: scientist of the people

• Hidden worlds: looking through a scientist's microscope

• Swimming with hammerhead sharks

• The bug scientists

• Looking for life in the universe: the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

• Project UltraSwan

• The woods scientist

• The tarantula scientist

• Gorilla doctors: saving endangered great apes

• The prairie builders: reconstructing America's lost grasslands

• Diving to a deep-sea volcano

• Quest for the tree kangaroo: an expedition to the Cloud Forest of New Guinea

• Emi and the rhino scientist: saving species from extinction

• Tracking trash: flotsam, jetsam, and the science of ocean motion

• The whale scientists: solving the mystery of whale strandings

• The mysterious universe: supernovae, dark energy, and black holes

• Science warriors: the battle against invasive species

• Extreme scientists: exploring nature's mysteries from perilous places

• The frog scientist

• Saving the ghost of the mountain: an expedition among snow leopards in Mongolia

• Whaling season: a year in the life of an arctic whale scientist

• The bat scientists

• The hive detectives: chronicle of a honey bee catastrophe

• Kakapo rescue: saving the world's strangest parrot

• Project seahorse

• The elephant scientist

• The manatee scientists: saving vulnerable species

• The mighty Mars rovers: the incredible adventures of spirit and opportunity

• The polar bear scientists

• The dolphins of Shark Bay

• Eruption!: volcanoes and the science of saving lives

• Sea turtle scientist

• Stronger than steel: spider DNA and the quest for better bulletproof vests, sutures, and parachute rope

• The tapir scientist: saving South America's largest mammal

• The wild horse scientists

• Beetle busters: a rogue insect and the people who track it

• Chasing cheetahs: the race to save Africa's fastest cats

• The park scientists: Gila Monsters, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears in America's Own Backyard

• The call of the osprey

• Inside Biosphere 2: earth science under glass

• The octopus scientists

• Crow smarts: inside the brain of the world's brightest bird

• The great white shark scientist

• Mission to Pluto: the first visit to an ice dwarf and the Kuiper belt

• Amazon adventure: how tiny fish are saving the world's largest rainforest

• Eye of the storm: NASA, drones, and the race to crack the hurricane code

• Impact!: asteroids and the science of saving the world

• Life on Surtsey, Iceland's upstart island

• Backyard bears: conservation, habitat changes, and the rise of urban wildlife

• The hyena scientist

• The next wave: the quest to harness the power of the oceans

• The orca scientists

• Eclipse chaser: science in the Moon's shadow

• Saving the Tasmanian devil: how science is helping the world's largest marsupial carnivore survive

• The tornado scientist: seeing inside severe storms

• The big one: the Cascadia earthquakes and the science of saving lives

• Condor comeback