A review by bethmitcham
Winged Wonders: Solving the Monarch Migration Mystery by Meeg Pincus, Yas Imamura
4.0
I like how the rhetorical questions guide the description of the study of monarch butterflies and challenge the idea of a single person making science. Was is the guy who thought of a tagging scheme? The woman who ran it? The people who did the tagging all over North America? The couple who decided to take some time to wander about Mexico asking? The people who have celebrated the arrival of the monarchs for centuries without knowing they were a mystery? Yes!
And then, because we can't have nice things, the final description of the threatened nature of the butterflies and the probably futile things people can do to slow their decline.
But the first part was good! I liked the backmatter description of the 1976 National Geographic article.
And then, because we can't have nice things, the final description of the threatened nature of the butterflies and the probably futile things people can do to slow their decline.
But the first part was good! I liked the backmatter description of the 1976 National Geographic article.