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1) Lions
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A simple description of the habitat, physical characteristics, life cycle, and eating habits of lions, one of the big wild cats who roar.
2) Lions
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39 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
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English
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An introduction to the lives of lions that focuses on how they hunt and how they raise their cubs.
6) Lions
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Photographs and simple text describe the physical characteristics, behavior, social structure, and eating habits of lions.
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32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
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Through the quirky, humorous, and irreverent approach of this book, kids will enjoy learning about the life of this fearsome feline. With the same engaging approach to nonfiction from the series You Wouldn't Want to Be/You Wouldn't Want to Live Without, each book in this new series features an animal species picked either for its ubiquitous nature or for its level of endangerment. The books describe key aspects of the life cycle of each animal, such...
8) Library lion
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A lion starts visiting the local library but runs into trouble as he tries to both obey the rules and help his librarian friend. Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do. There aren't any rules about lions in the library. And, as it turns out, this lion seems very well suited to library visiting....
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1898, Tsavo River Kenya, the British Empire has employed 140 workers to build a railroad bridge. The bridge's construction comes to a violent halt when two mane less lions devour all 140 workers in a savage feeding frenzy that would make headlines-and history-all over the world. Caputo's Ghosts of Tsavo is a new quest for truth about the origins of these near-mythical animals and how they became predators of human flesh.
10) Lion heart
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 x 35 cm
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"Lion Heart is a self-published book written and illustrated by a sister and brother team. The rhyming text provides clues for the reader to find different parts of a geometric shape lion within the vibrant illustrations. Similar to seek-and-find books, the reader must carefully look through the artwork to discover the missing body part stated in the clue. Kiley wrote the book to use in her speech and language sessions with her students to build vocabulary...
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Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including the cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and...
12) Blood lions
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1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Follows acclaimed environmental journalist and safari operator Ian Michler, and Rick Swazey, an American hunter, on their journey to uncover the realities about the multi-million dollar predator breeding and canned lion hunting industries in South Africa.
Explores the system of lion breeding and canned hunting industries in South Africa.
14) A lion grows up
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Presents a children's story for early readers that describes how a baby lion grows up, how their mothers care for them, and how they learn to care for themselves.
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304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 cm
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The 2015 killing of a much-loved lion called Cecil by an American big-game hunter in Zimbabwe sparked international outrage. It also drew world attention to shrinking numbers of the 'king of the beasts' and the fact that humans continue to hunt them for sport. There are no lions left north of the Sahara and their range in southern Africa has shrunk considerably. Two sub-species have already gone. With numbers down to just 20,000, many experts believe...
16) The white lions
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of two remarkable and extremely rare white lion cubs on their journey to adulthood. Both are female, sisters born as white as snow in May 2009 in South Africa's Kruger Park.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Goes inside the largest animals on the planet to explore their anatomy, reveal their intricate inner workings and uncover their evolutionary secrets. In this episode, veterinary scientist Mark Evans and comparative anatomist Joy Reidenberg dissect a lion and tiger. On the outside, the animals look very different; but once their skins are removed, even the experts find it hard to distinguish the two.
20) Lions
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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"Here's an animal lover's one-stop source for in-depth information on lions! What do they eat? How do they behave? Are they at risk? This book also includes loads of fun and fascinating facts about lions, as well as maps, charts, and wonderful photographs of these clever creatures."--Provided by publisher.
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