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Insects & Bugs of North America: Your Way to Easily Identify Insects & BugsYour quick guide to identifying insects and bugs Get the perfect guide to insects and bugs of North America Keep this tabbed booklet close at hand at home, at the park, on your camping trip, and for any outdoors adventure. Based on noted entomologist...
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Our Love of BeesHappy Bees: Welcome Guests in Our Yards and Gardens From the humble bumblebee to the honeybee colonies that pollinate many of our food crops, bees are beginning to earn the respect and adoration they deserve. Now, the presence of a bee signifies a healthy...
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BirdsBrilliant graphic illustrations and a gentle, thought-provoking text pay homage to birds and their wonder-inspiring ways. Birds are like thoughts.They come, stay awhile . . .and then fly away. Birds come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. They like to chat with one another...
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Eek, You Reek!: Poems about Animals That Stink, Stank, StunkEek, you reek, You make a funk. Where you have been Things stink, stank, stunk. You've left a path, A swath of smell, And--yuck You did it very well. Readers will be delighted by the malodorous melodies of poems calling out the different pungent...
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Inside Animal Hearts and Minds: Bears That Count, Goats That Surf, and Other True Stories of Animal Intelligence and EmotionIn a world where a growing body of scientific research is closing the gap between the human and non-human, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds invites us to change the way we view animals, the world, and our place in it. As Charles Darwin suggested...
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Birds of Nicaragua: A Field GuideBirders in Central America have long known that Nicaragua is one of the best birding locations in the world, and with tourism to the country on the upswing, birders from the rest of the world are now coming to the same conclusion. The largest...
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National Geographic Kids Readers: Real Dragons (L1/Co-Reader)Find out about dragon-like critters in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids. Co-readers provide one page of text for adults to read aloud and one page text for kids to read aloud on each spread, building toward a collaborative reading experience. Think dragons...
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12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in HappinessDiscover the healing power of nature through the stories of these characterful birds, whose song is never far away . . .LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'A lyrical and life-affirming book that teaches us as much about birds as it does ourselves -...
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Amazing Animals Around the WorldLearn about a great variety of animals from all over the world in this dynamic book about creatures great and small! The fabulous diversity of the animal kingdom is on full display in this beautifully designed book featuring some of the most interesting creatures...
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The Badgers of Wytham Woods: A Model for Behaviour, Ecology, and EvolutionThe badgers of Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) have been studied continuously and intensively by David Macdonald for almost 50 years (25 of them with his former student and co-author Chris Newman), generating a wealth of data pertaining to every facet of their ecology and...
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Aye-AyesAuthor: Gail TerpPublisher: Bolt!Published: 01/01/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.69w x 0.32dISBN: 9781623105648Audience: Ages 9-12
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Frogs & Toads of the SoutheastWith more than forty native and introduced species of frogs and toads occurring in the southeastern United States, the region represents the heart of frog and toad diversity in the country. Renowned herpetologists Mike Dorcas and Whit Gibbons provide us with the most comprehensive...
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Are You a Butterfly?Caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly; follow the metamorphosis of this familiar backyard creature as it evolves into a delicate flying insect.Author: Judy AllenPublisher: KingfisherPublished: 05/16/2003Pages: 28Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.30h x 8.31w x 0.17dISBN: 9780753456088Audience: Ages 4-8Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 2.7Point Value: 0.5Interest Level: Lower GradeQuiz #/Name:...
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Wildlife of MadagascarThe most comprehensive single-volume field guide to Madagascar's wildlife The Indian Ocean island of Madagascar is one of the world's great natural treasures and ecotourism destinations. Despite being an island, it is home to nearly an entire continent's variety of species, from the famous...
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Trickiest!: 19 Sneaky AnimalsTrickiest! introduces readers to some of the slyest animals on the planet, and the award-winning author and illustrator Steve Jenkins is here to show you what earned them their reputation. Steve's Extreme Animals reader series explores nature's truly superlative animals with the help of...
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of EvolutionA major new book overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point out many examples of...
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Flowers, Butterflies and Insects: All 154 Engravings from Erucarum OrtusThe splendid engravings in this historic book combine beautiful images of roses, butterflies, tulips, caterpillars, and other specimens of plant and insect life in elegant full-page compositions. Representing a notable achievement from a great age of floral painting and the engraver's art, they reach...
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Animal Rights: A Very Short IntroductionThis volume provides a general overview of the basic ethical and philosophical issues of animal rights. It asks questions such as: Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we...
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On AggressionThis work has had significant impact on the social and biological sciences and is now a classic point of reference for investigations of behavioral patterns. Lorenz presents his findings on the mechanism of aggression and how animals control destructive drives in the interest of...
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Vertebrate LifeVertebrate Life distills the necessary information from vertebrate anatomy, physiology, ecology, and behavioral studies and then helps students see important connections across levels of biological scale. The result is students come to understand how organisms function effectively in their environments and how lineages of...
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