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31 pages, 5 folded leaves : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
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"Animals know that in order to survive, they must stay hidden--and, fortunately, nature helps them by providing coloration that camouflages them in their habitat. Award-winning author and illustrator Jim Arnosky looks at this most artful and beautiful aspect of animal life, from the dappled spots on a fawn and the leaf-like markings on a Copperhead snake to the white fur of the snowshoe hare in winter and the changing colors of the octopus. Featuring...
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Phoebe and her unicorn volume 11
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174 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Phoebe and her unicorn best friend, Marigold, share one of the most magical friendships in comics history. This new collection of Phoebe and Her Unicorn comics is sure to dazzle and delight readers of all ages with tales of mischief, magic, and adventure. Life is never boring when your best friend is a unicorn."--Provided by publisher.
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" "Winner of the PROSE Award in Popular Science and Mathematics, Association of American Publishers" Lixing Sun is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Central Washington University. He is the author of The Fairness Instinct: The Robin Hood Mentality and Our Biological Nature and the coauthor of The Beaver: Natural History of a Wetlands Engineer.
A natural history...
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Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures-how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or elude their predators, and more. What would it be like to see prehistoric animals as they lived and breathed?
From dinosaurs fighting to their deaths to elephant-sized burrowing...
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xii, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"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; how...
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157 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
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"Every animal illustrates how they thrive, offering a model of how you might choose to thrive, too. If we're willing to listen--to follow the pawprints--we just might discover a kinder, braver, more courageous way of life"--
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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo las hormigas pueden trabajar en equipo para construir estructuras asombrosas? ¿O por qué los flamencos tienen ese llamativo color rosa? Entonces sigue leyendo… "Tenemos más que aprender de los animales, que los animales de nosotros." - Anónimo Seguramente estás leyendo esto porque te fascinan las historias extraordinarias del reino animal y deseas conocer mucho más. Para ello, seguramente tendrías que...
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Human Navigation and Magneto reception, first published in 1989, was written to draw a line under an academic feud that had enlivened much of the 1980s. Now, thirty years on, a new generation of researchers, students and journalists have voiced a need for the book's contents to be made generally available again – and this 30th Anniversary edition (with a new Preface by the author) is the result.
Like all mammals, early humans needed to find their...
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790 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Why do we do the things we do? Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's genre-shattering attempt to answer that question as fully as perhaps only he could, looking at it from every angle. Sapolsky's storytelling concept is delightful but it also has a powerful intrinsic logic: he starts by looking at the factors that bear on a person's reaction in the precise moment a behavior occurs, and then hops back in time from...
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"One of American Association for the Advancement of Science's Books for General Audiences and Young Adults 2014" Daphne J. Fairbairn is professor of biology at the University of California, Riverside. She has written widely on the science of sexual differences.
The remarkable and unique ways that male and female animals play out gender roles in nature
While we joke that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, our gender differences can't compare...
173) Shadow Island
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Sueño Bay adventures volume 1
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191 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"In this graphic novel for early middle readers, mysterious raccoon-like Moon Creatures are discovered on an island in the Pacific Northwest."--
With nowhere left to live after losing his parents and working his way through a long list of relatives on the mainland, Ollie finds himself at his grandpa's house in Sueño Bay, "home of the supernatural." Miserable and intending to get away from the earthquake-prone, rain-soaked island on the next bus...
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Birds demonstrate many admirable characteristics.
They:
-make every day count and they keep it simple
-try to adapt and be flexible
-are vigilant and aware of their surroundings
-value cleanliness and beauty
-communicate with others
-cooperate with others
-have courage in the face of danger
-persevere
-have confidence in themselves
-have patience
-are curious and playful
-are creative and innovative
-use their intelligence
-show loyalty
-accept reality
-show...
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33.4% of pets are made up of exotic animals such as birds, reptiles and small mammals.
Just because a veterinary school doesn't offer an exclusively exotic animal track doesn't mean you have no chance of working with these rare and unusual animals. You also don't have to be a veterinarian to work with animals. There are many without a degree who have devoted everything to helping animals in need.
In More than a Zookeeper: The People Behind...
176) Wild Moms
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Being a mom is a tough job-but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources, and the threat of predators prowling at all times of the day and night. In Wild Moms, Dr. Carin Bondar takes readers on an enthralling tour of the animal kingdom as she explores the phenomenon of motherhood in the wild. A journey through motherhood for the animal kingdom-from the initial phases of gestation...
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Rosemary Lombard has maintained a private turtle lab for nearly half a century, first in Bloomington Indiana, then in Chicago, then Milwaukee, later in the Bay Area, and now in Hillsboro, Oregon. To my knowledge, only she and I have ever played Scrabble with a turtle-in my case, an Eastern box turtle named Diode. I've encountered many skeptics who have severe reservations about this claim. I've also met many more who are more than just skeptical;...
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Welcome to the amazing world of Snakes Photos and Facts for Everyone! The animal facts in nature book to be amazed by Snakes.
You will find Snakes in nature with pictures to include the many Snakes species, size, breeding, eating habits, and interesting facts. Snakes Photos and Facts for Everyone is Book 31 of the Learn with Facts Series. This book is around a clear concept: The amazing life of Snakes with facts and color photos.
Be sure to read...
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Questions buzzed endlessly in Charles Henry Turner's mind. Fascinated by bugs and other animals, he wondered: Can spiders learn? How do ants find their way home? Can bugs see color? --from dust jacket.
180) Pawcasso
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233 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Every Saturday, Pawcasso trots into town with a basket, a shopping list, and cash in paw to buy groceries for his family. One day, he passes eleven-year-old Jo, peering out the window of her house, bored and lonely. Astonished by the sight of an adorable basket-toting dog on his own, Jo follows Pawcasso, and when she's seen alongside him by a group of kids from her school, they mistake her for Pawcasso's owner. Excited to make new friends, Jo reluctantly...
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