龙之歌：鳄鱼、短吻鳄及其他恐龙亲戚之间的爱与冒险

English | ISBN: 1611458935, 1950691993 | 2013 | EPUB | 338 pages | 3 MB

A born naturalist and a fearless traveler, Vladimir Dinets wrote travel guides, conducted field research, and lived a couple of lives before he was accepted into the PhD program in zoology at the University of Miami. He thought crocodiles were a dead-end research topic—survivors from the age of the dinosaurs but not much else—until he witnessed groups of up to seventy alligators performing mating choruses that included infrasound vibrations—a form of communication extremely rare in nature—and a “dance” unknown in the scientific literature but that resembled a scene from Jurassic Park. To prove his thesis about the language of crocodiles, he spent the next six years traveling around the world on shoestring budgets and in extreme circumstances, studying almost every living species. At the same time, as a man desiring companionship in life, he sought love.

With adventures on five continents, Dragon Songs is his account of this quest. It includes an escape from a boiling lava lake in the Afar Desert, being chased up a tree by a tiger in India, hitching a ride with a cocaine smuggler in Bolivia, and diving with giant Greenland sharks—all in the name of studying crocodiles, among which he routinely paddled in his inflatable kayak. Of course, not everything went according to plan. But, in the end, his ground-breaking research helped change the field. And during the course of his adventures, he met and courted his future wife.

出生即为自然学家，勇敢无畏的旅行者，维拉米尔·迪内宁特在迈阿密大学动物学博士项目被录取前就撰写了旅游指南、进行了野外研究，并且在生活上经历了好几重。他以为鳄鱼的研究方向是一条死胡同——它们是恐龙时代的幸存者但也没什么了不起的——直到他在东非目睹了一群多达七十只短吻鳄进行的交配合唱，其中包含次声波振动——这种极其罕见的自然形式的交流方式——和一种“舞蹈”，这种舞蹈从未出现在科学文献中，但却与《侏罗纪公园》中的场景相似。为了证明关于鳄鱼语言的研究论文，他在世界范围内游历数年，资金拮据、环境极端的情况下，几乎研究了每一个活生生的物种。与此同时，作为渴望生活中伴侣的人，他追求爱情。 《龙歌》是他这一历程的记录。其中包括了从阿法尔沙漠火山熔岩湖逃生的经历，在印度被老虎追赶而爬上树的经验，以及在玻利维亚和一名携带可卡因走私者搭便车的经历；以及与巨型格陵兰鲨鱼潜水的经历——这些行动都是为了研究鳄鱼，其中他经常划着充气橡皮艇。当然，并不是一切都按照计划进行。然而，在他的历险过程中，这项开创性的研究帮助改变了领域，并且在旅途中，他遇到了未来妻子。

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