Title: Adventures with animals and plants
Identifier: adventureswithan00kroe (find matches)
Year: 1948 (1940s)
Authors: Kroeber, Elsbeth, 1882-; Wolff, Walter Harold, 1901-
Subjects: Biology
Publisher: Boston : D. C. Heath
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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8 Biologists Study Animals and Planzs
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Fig. 6 An outdoor museum, part of the Nature Trail at Tuxedo, New York. Could you build a simple nature trail? What besides names might be given on the various tags that you see? (American museum of natural history) the French so that you can read them. Other stay-at-home observers may study birds, or snakes, or other animals. Such study can satisfy a love of the out of doors and add to the store of bio- logical knowledge. Backyard exploration for you. Equipped with a pad and a pencil, you too can start on a tour of exploration. You may fill notebooks with your observations of the wild things in a park, in a field, or in a city lot. You can collect specimens and lay out a museum of your own. Or you may choose to mark off a small plot on the bank of the creek flowing by your house, the edge of a nearby wood, or a city yard. If you study this with care you w ill be amazed at the many organisms you will find. One biologist collected several hundred different kinds of insects from his own small backyard in three years. Your backyard may be only a roof or a window sill. A sheltered board regularly supplied with bread crumbs will bring passing birds, A piece of sod brought in from out of doors and watered carefully will grow into a miniature jungle. There will be much for you to observe and many experi- ments for you to try. With a camera you can add to the pleasure of backyard exploration and provide a treasured album. A study of biology can lead to many outdoor hobbies: the collecting of in- sects, fossils, shells, or plants; the raising of pets such as guinea pigs, rabbits, and white mice; the studying of insects in their homes; the planting and care of a oarden. The biologist's laboratory. While some biologists explore, many more work in the laboratory — the workshop of the

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