Brett D. Huson
Autor(a) de The sockeye mother
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- 4.4
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Words that I did not know the meaning of:
1. semelparous -- breeding only once in a lifetime. This word, properly spelled, offends Library Thing's spelling checker!
2. fry - a recently hatched fish that can fend for itself, is eating its own food and has almost consumed the yolk sac.
3. smolt - a young fish that is changing from a freshwater fish to one that can live in saltwater
4. saliferous - salt-bearing (I think that one was thrown in just for fun)
However, sometimes I could not really relate the text to the fine illustrations. There is a shark in one illustration, and I don't know what it is doing there. The allusions to cultural religious beliefs of the tribes that have lived along the river on which the salmon live collide with true knowledge that is now really well established about ecology. Alas, it is not impossible that those salmon will go the way of the cod on the opposite coast.… (mais)