This excellent addition to Houghton Mifflin's Bob considered Sam a true arachnologist. Sam got quite involved with the ATS for some time, and wrote us some great articles. Bob collected them and we published a little booklet of Sam’s pieces.
Readers follow the career of Sam This time the featured scientist is arachnologist Sam Marshall, who studies spiders in the jungle of French Guiana as well as in his lab back at his Ohio college, and the featured subject is spiders, especially tarantulas.
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Samuel Marshall, an arachnologist In this book, Sy Montgomery follows Sam Marshall, an arachnologist who studies wherever the tarantulas call him. The book explains the parts of tarantulas, how they got their name, spiders who are confused as tarantulas, and more.
While there, a young arachnology Despite the growing number of humans who seem to enjoy keeping tarantulas as pets, the spiders are mostly a mystery. Marshall is one of only a dozen arachnologists worldwide specializing in them—and the only scientist who runs a lab full of tarantulas gathered from around the globe.
Journal of Arachnology 27:343-350. But Sam knows this forest well. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Sam is a spider scientist, or arachnologist. (say it, “arr-rack-NAWL-o-gist.”) His specialty? The biggest, hairiest, and some would say scariest group of spiders on Earth: Tarantulas. That’s why he’s come all the way from Hiram, Ohio to French Guiana in South America.
Title: Tarantulas and other arachnids: This excellent addition to Houghton Mifflin’s Scientists in the Field series focuses on arachnologist Sam Marshall’s study of tarantulas in the rainforest of French Guiana in South America.
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