Search for the Golden Moon Bear

By: Sy Montgomery

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Synopsis: Sy Montgomery has already shared with readers her amazing encounters with great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but her latest muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science-until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium. "Search for the Golden Moon Bear" recounts Montgomery's quest-fraught with danger and mayhem-to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her littleknown subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. "Search for the Golden Moon Bear" is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue.