Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and adventure in Southeast Asia by Sy Montgomery, Simon & Schuster, $26, ISBN 0743205847 Reviewed by Adrian Barnett
FOR a scientist working with mammals, one of the great prizes is to discover a new species. The odds are against it: nearly 80 per cent of the mammal species known today were discovered before 1900. In Search for the Golden Moon Bear, Sy Montgomery documents travels and travails as she and bear biologist Gary Galbreath criss-cross Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in search of the eponymous ursine.
In a liquidly descriptive style, Montgomery beautifully documents the…
