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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Pipin’s Book

ISBN: 9780995631434

RRP: £16.00

PAGES: 40

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 15, 2021

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Secret Life in Karst Caves

By Slavko Polak

To celebrate the International Year of Caves and Karst we have joined forces with biologist Slavko Polak, Senior Curator at Notranjska Museum in Postojna, Slovenia, and an expert in research of subterranean fauna, in preparation of an educational publication Secret Life in Karst Caves.

The book, which will be published in Slovene and English language, is suitable for secondary education, as well as for anyone who would like to learn more about the richness of life underground. Examples are based on typical representatives of cave animals in Slovenian Karst, however the variety of presented habitats gives the reader an overall idea of the types of animals that can be found living in caves around the globe.

Alongside the text, which is perfectly detailed to introduce the reader to the underground world, the book is enriched by incredible photographs, showing the researched animals in great detail.

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By Slavko Polak

Slavko Polak is a biologist and Senior Curator at Notranjska Museum in Postojna. He works on popularisation of fauna and flora in the region with a broad research interest mostly in vertebrates, beetles and butterflies of the region and subterranean beetles on wider global scale.

He prepared a model for monitoring cave beetle Leptodirus hochenwartii in Slovenia for Natura 2000 and is preparing an atlas on subterranean beetles of Slovenia. As an expert of subterranean fauna, he regularly participates in International Symposiums of Subterranean Biology worldwide. As a curator, he led the opening of the speleo-vivarium in 2004 in the Postojna cave and arranged “Karst Museum”, a permanent exhibition of the Notranjska museum.

Polak is member of most Slovene zoological societies (studying and protecting birds, bats, butterflies, dragonflies, entomology, herpetology, natural heritage conservation…) and some International societies, such as the International Society for Subterranean Biology.