Susan Jewell has studied wildlife from Maine to Florida by motorboat, airboat, canoe, airplane, helicopter, tree-climbing, scuba, and muddy feet. She has worked for the National Audubon Society, National Park Service, and others. For the past 16 years, she has been a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 1992. She has worked with such varied animals as bobcats, alligators, puffins, wood storks and other wading birds, marine fish, and gopher tortoises. Her previous books include Exploring Wild South Florida and Exploring Wild Central Florida. In her spare time, she is a freelance writer of environmental issues.