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22) Fosas
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This high-interest narrative nonfiction title introduces young readers to fosas--rare catlike animals that live in Madagascar--and an amazing scientist who studies them. This book is packed with exciting wildlife encounters, basic facts about fosas, and first-hand accounts from a scientist at work in the field. Each book includes a table of contents, sidebars, glossary of key words, fast facts, index, and author biography"-- provided by publisher....
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This full-color book of marvelous mammals provides 30 hands-on activities to give interested children an overview of the wide varieties of mammals in their world. How big is a blue whale? Why does a sloth crawl from the safety of a tree to the ground once a week? How does a vampire bat feed? Young nature enthusiasts will find answers to these questions and learn all sorts of fascinating facts about mammals in this full-color, interactive book. Mammal...
26) Bats
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Presenting fascinating information on all kinds of bats, from how they use echoes to hear, to the legends that surround them and how to protect the species. Though people often think of bats as scary, bats are really shy, gentle animals. There are nearly 1000 different species of bats, and they live on every continent except Antarctica. Some are tiny, but the giant flying fox bat has a five-foot wingspan! Popular science author Gail Gibbons also...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Josephine: a spirited and curious girl, a big sister, and a human being. Shes also a mammal, an animal, and a living thingall identities she explores with readers in this simple informational picture book. Josephine presents her family (and herself) as examples of human beings, and then familiar creatures like her dog and her mom (and herself) as mammals. Next, she adds whales, lobsters, hummingbirds, and elephants (and herself) as examples...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Renowned paleontologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Steve Brusatte charts the extraordinary story of the dinosaurs' successor: mammals, which emerged from the shadows to rule the Earth. Brusatte also brings alive the lost worlds mammals inhabited over the past 66 million years, from ice ages to volcanic cataclysms. Entwined in this story is the detective work he and other scientists have done to piece...
Author
Series
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"With the help of beautifully detailed paintings from noted wildlife illustrator John Sill, this book explains the basic characteristics that all mammals share, while offering a look into the variety of mammals--from the tiny white-footed deermouse to the enormous blue whale--that fall into this fascinating category"--The publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Lerner
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qǔ tienen en com︢n un elefante, un rat̤n y un delf̕n? ¡Todos son mam̕feros! Aprende sobre las caracter̕sticas que comparten todos los mam̕feros."-- provided by publisher.
"What do an elephant, a mouse, and a dolphin have in common? They're all mammals! Learn about the characteristics that all mammals share."-- provided by publisher.
33) Cá voi
Author
Publisher
Kim Đò̂ng
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
Describes whales, dolphins, seals, and other marine mammals, their habitats, means of communication, and family life.
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One night a scientist discovered something surprising in his own backyard : a flying squirrel that glowed bright pink! Follow along on an investigation into flying squirrels -- and other mammals -- that glow when exposed to ultraviolet light"--
35) Drawing mammals
Author
Publisher
Fox Chapel Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This updated edition of Drawing Mammals features stunning color photographs for 20 of North America's favorite mammals, from the noble gray wolf of the Yukon Territory to the tiny Key deer of Florida.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs...
Author
Publisher
Columbus Zoological Park Association
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Follows the life of Colo, the first gorilla born in captivity, from her birth at the Columbus Zoo to her development into an adult, her progeny, and her distinction as the oldest living gorilla in the world.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
" In their critically acclaimed bestseller, Zoobiquity, the authors revealed the essential connection between human and animal health. In Wildhood, they turn the same eye-opening, species-spanning lens to adolescent young adult life. Traveling around the world and drawing from their latest research, they find that the same four universal challenges are faced by every adolescent human and animal on earth: how to be safe, how to navigate hierarchy;...
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This book features fascinating information on all the major types of dinosaur as well as ancient fish, other prehistoric reptiles in the air or water, and early mammals. Dinosaur reconstructions and the latest fossil finds bring back to life the bone-crunching teeth of the Tyrannosaurus rex, the astonishingly large body of the Argentinosaurus, and the plane-sized wings of the soaring Hatzegopteryx. Each page reveals new facts from the latest paleontological...
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