Josh Hestermann

About The Author

Josh Hestermann is a zoologist at the Orange County Zoo, California, USA. He previously worked at the California Science Center, the Aquarium of the Pacific, with marine mammals at Brookfield Zoo, and as a keeper, presenter, and educator at Phoenix Zoo. He has led research trips to study California sea lions in Mexico and participated in the Chicago Zoological Society's Sarasota Dolphin Research Program. Josh has contributed to conservation efforts for everything from sea otters to bluebottle butterflies.

Books by Josh Hestermann

The Magnificent Book of Creatures of the Abyss
By Bethanie Hestermann and Josh Hestermann
Illustrated by Val Walerczuk
Get up close to some of extraordinary creatures that live in the abyss, the little-explored world thousands of feet beneath the ocean surface. A gulper eel with an inflatable mouth, a barreleye fish with a transparent head, a goblin shark with an extendable jaw, a vampire squid that can turn itse...
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