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The Search For Olinguito

by Sandra Markle

Ages: 6+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Millbrook Press/Lerner

ISBN: 978-1-5124-1015-0

Keywords: Ecuador, New species, Read-Aloud, Cloud Forest, Scientific exploration

The trail from museum collections to cloud forests in Ecuador is revealed as young scientists trace, research, and present a new species to the world. Photographs, maps, back matter.