Zoology
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What Happens Next?Lift the flaps and learn about animal life with two books in a fresh, fun-filled series for curious preschoolers. Here's a hungry chameleon with a long, long tongue. And here's a big juicy caterpillar. Can you guess what happens next? What if a honeybee...
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Bugs & SlugsFalcon Pocket Guide: Bugs & Slugs is a field guide to 100 of the most common and sought-after bug and slug species in the region. Anatomically correct illustrations and detailed descriptions about each insect's prominent physical attributes and natural habitat make it easy to...
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What Can Live in the Ocean?Discover how adaptations make the ocean a perfect habitat for whales, lobsters, sea horses, and many, many more animals.Author: Sheila AndersonPublisher: Lerner ClassroomPublished: 08/01/2010Pages: 24Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 6.80h x 5.80w x 0.20dISBN: 9780761356738Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.3Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz...
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Fake Out!: Animals That Play TricksDid you know that the mimic octopus can change its shape, skin color, and texture to match its surroundings, or that there is a type of goat that faints whenever it feels threatened? Find out about these and other creatures with bizarre behaviors in...
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Animal Life CyclesThis graphic nonfiction book introduces various animal life cycles, including birds, amphibians, butterflies, and mammals. The Building Blocks of Life Science volumes feature whimsical characters to guide young readers through topics exploring animal behavior, the cell cycle, plant and animal life cycles, and much...
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Honeybee Ecology: A Study of Adaptation in Social LifeThe book presents honeybees as a model system for investigating advanced social life among insects from an evolutionary perspective. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of...
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Snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East: A Photographic GuideThis is a fully up-to-date and comprehensive photographic field guide to the snakes of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Lavishly illustrated with 387 color photographs, it includes coverage of all 122 snake species found in these regions. The guide's detailed introduction discusses...
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The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing CreatureA remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinction Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or...
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The Extreme Life of the SeaA thrilling tour of the sea's most extreme species, coauthored by one of the world's leading marine scientists The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of...
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Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of NatureIn Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside....
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Seashells of Southern Florida: Living Marine Mollusks of the Florida Keys and Adjacent Regions: BivalvesLocated where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna. The Keys are home to nearly sixty taxonomic families of bivalves such as clams and mussels--roughly half the world's bivalve...
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Systematics and Origin of PErnst Mayr is perhaps the most distinguished biologist of the twentieth century, and Systematics and the Origin of Species may be one of his greatest and most influential books. This classic study, first published in 1942, helped to revolutionize evolutionary biology by offering a...
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Sexual Selection and Animal GenitaliaAuthor: William G. EberhardPublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 04/13/2014Pages: 254Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.19lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63dISBN: 9780674330696
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Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social EvolutionCharles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves to construct something as perfect as a honey comb. How do bees accomplish such incredible tasks? Synthesizing the findings of decades of experiments, The...
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Bumblebee Economics: With a New PrefaceHere is a brilliant introduction to insect and plant ecology focusing on one of nature's most adaptive creatures, the bumblebee. Survival for the bumblebee depends on its ability to regulate body temperature through a complex energy exchange, and it is this management of energy...
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Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve CrimesThe forensic entomologist turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on scenes from which most people would recoil--human corpses in various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met a premature end through accident or mayhem. To Lee Goff and his fellow forensic...
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Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres AustralesWhile British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna. Lap rouse and Labillardi re, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human...
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The Tasmanian Tiger: Extinct or Extant?Does the Tasmanian Tiger still roam the island state, parts of the Australian mainland, and the northern land mass of Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea? Despite being hunted to extinction in the early part of the 20th century, the Tasmanian Tiger continues to stalk the...
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You Wouldn't Want to Live Without Bees!For use in schools and libraries only. What would happen if there were no bees in this world? It would be a disaster! Without bees, we would, of course, have no honey. But we'd also lose a lot of other foods and useful products...
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What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this beautifully illustrated interactive guessing book by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.Author: Steve Jenkins, Robin...
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