Download or read book Queen Orca the Pigs written by R.V. Bailey and published by Spider Books Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-19 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disappearance of a Reno couple from Prince William Sound, Alaska, along with a half eaten dog, apparently by killer whales, raises suspicion that a certain orca pack, called the A-T pack, led by a particularly sharp and aggressive female, the queen, may be responsible. An exploration geologist and his wife, Alaska residents and both interested in orcas, carry out investigations in the A-T pack's home waters to learn more about their behavior and habits. They are joined by a marine biologist orca specialist from southern California. A number of people are determined to communicate with the orcas, including a psychologist from Canada, a rock band from Vancouver, BC. and music for the orcas via underwater speakers. Some kids from Anchorage attempt to communicate with the whales with near-fatal consequences. Accompany the intelligent orcas as they hunt, kill and eat various types of fish and animals. They also have fun. The three investigators decide to test the interest of the orcas, under federal and state supervision, in a totally strange food to help determine if they might kill and eat humans. Small pigs, a human food, were decided upon as the best choice for testing orca reaction to strange food animals. The test is successful and part of the A-T pack is orca led but not for long.
Download or read book Jurassic Underground written by R.V. Bailey and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jurassic Underground By: R. V. Bailey A desolate location in southeastern Wyoming, named Como Bluff, has a reputation as one of the best late Jurassic dinosaur fossil localities in the world. Late Jurassic is the time period from about 160 to 145 million years ago. The location was given the name Como Bluff in the 1800’s when the Union Pacific Railway was being built through the area. In about 1865, examples of huge fossilized bones were sent to certain eastern US universities and museums and several distinguished vertebrate paleontologists traveled to Como Bluff where they found many specimens lying on the surface. Erosion of the Jurassic-age Morrison Formation, the host sedimentary strata, was the source. But, by 2010, after 140 years of surface activity by fossil collectors, there were no remaining fossils at the surface. A Wyoming University-educated geologist, Mike Mackenzie, who was born and raised in southeast Wyoming, theorized that the best way to search for more Jurassic fossils at this locality would be to excavate in the Morrison Formation underground. Mike envisioned underground viewing points where visitors would be able to see cleared off and exposed dinosaur fossils in the sediments within which they were entombed. This novel takes the reader underground where mining activity leads to a surprise discovery and unnerving encounters. A number of perceptions about dinosaurs will be questioned as explorers have thrilling and frightening adventures back in time and into dangerous Jurassic situations.
Download or read book The First Extraterrestrial Signal written by Paul Torrance and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Extraterrestrial Signal is a fictional book. The book reveals how the entire world reacts to the first confirmed radio signal from an alien civilization. The book reveals how intelligent life on Earth gathers to discuss the signal from the aliens and how the world should react to that first confirmed radio signal from outer space aliens. From religions to governments, the intelligent beings on Earth gather to ponder what to do with the realization that there is another intelligent life in the universe way beyond the solar system and what to do with the information provided by the aliens.
Download or read book Orca Currents Resource Guide written by Kate Hill and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orca Soundings are teen novels for reluctant readers. Orca Currents are middle-school novels for reluctant readers. Written at a grade 2.0 to grade 4.5 reading level, these compelling contemporary novels have proven incredibly popular with teachers and librarians looking for material that will engage their most reluctant of readers. Orca has always provided professionally written teachers guides to accompany these books. Now we offer a complete resource guide to enable classroom integration of these popular titles. Including sections on reading levels, book discussion groups, literacy circles, assessment and follow-up activities, this resource guide enables a teacher to implement the Orca Soundings and Orca Currents series as part of a comprehensive independent reading and literacy unit.
Download or read book Justine Mckeen Vs the Queen of Mean written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixth installment of the Justine McKeen, Queen of Green series, Justine is faced with the challenge of convincing the Queen of Mean that being environmentally conscious is worthwhile.
Download or read book Life in a Fishbowl written by Murray A. Newman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen Anna s New World of Words Or Dictionarie of the Italien and English Tongues Newly Augmented written by Giovanni Florio and published by . This book was released on 1611 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen of the Toilet Bowl written by Frieda Wishinsky and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Renata is chosen to play the lead role in the school musical, students who used to ignore her start saying hello and congratulating her in the hall. She enjoys her newfound acceptance at school until she realizes that Karin, a wealthy girl who expected to get the lead role, will go to great lengths to punish Renata for her success. Renata is not going to give up the role, but how much tormenting will she have to take?
Download or read book Justine McKeen Queen of Green written by Sigmund Brouwer and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justine's trying to save the planet, one person and one cause at a time. Justine McKeen talks too much, bosses people around too much, and as everyone soon finds out, she tells the truth, but just not all at once. Best of all, when she decides to get something done, it involves a whole lot of laughter and fun for everyone.
Download or read book The A to Z of Forgotten Animals written by John Altson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a whimsical look at twenty-six of the some of the world's most obscure and wonderful creatures. Each page is dedicated to one specific creature and contains: An outrageous title: the animal personified An image of the animal in a unique setting A poem specific to the animal Where the animal may be found While the primary intent of the book is to educate a child about some rare and wonderful creatures in a humorous manner, a secondary objective is to raise the level of awareness about the threat of extinction to many of the species.
Download or read book Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists Field Club written by Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book American Swineherd Published Monthly in the Interests of Swine Raising written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Oceanarium written by Loveday Trinick and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Big Picture Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, 2021.
Download or read book Lesser Beasts written by Mark Essig and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other barnyard animals, which pull plows, give eggs or milk, or grow wool, a pig produces only one thing: meat. Incredibly efficient at converting almost any organic matter into nourishing, delectable protein, swine are nothing short of a gastronomic godsend—yet their flesh is banned in many cultures, and the animals themselves are maligned as filthy, lazy brutes. As historian Mark Essig reveals in Lesser Beasts, swine have such a bad reputation for precisely the same reasons they are so valuable as a source of food: they are intelligent, self-sufficient, and omnivorous. What’s more, he argues, we ignore our historic partnership with these astonishing animals at our peril. Tracing the interplay of pig biology and human culture from Neolithic villages 10,000 years ago to modern industrial farms, Essig blends culinary and natural history to demonstrate the vast importance of the pig and the tragedy of its modern treatment at the hands of humans. Pork, Essig explains, has long been a staple of the human diet, prized in societies from Ancient Rome to dynastic China to the contemporary American South. Yet pigs’ ability to track down and eat a wide range of substances (some of them distinctly unpalatable to humans) and convert them into edible meat has also led people throughout history to demonize the entire species as craven and unclean. Today’s unconscionable system of factory farming, Essig explains, is only the latest instance of humans taking pigs for granted, and the most recent evidence of how both pigs and people suffer when our symbiotic relationship falls out of balance. An expansive, illuminating history of one of our most vital yet unsung food animals, Lesser Beasts turns a spotlight on the humble creature that, perhaps more than any other, has been a mainstay of civilization since its very beginnings—whether we like it or not.
Download or read book Sea Monsters written by Joseph Nigg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic creature expert and author of Phoenix takes readers through a bestiary of sea monsters featured on the famous 16th century map Carta Marina. In the sixteenth century, sea serpents, giant man-eating lobsters, and other monsters were thought to swim the waters of Norther Europe, threatening seafarers who ventured too far from shore. Thankfully, Scandinavian mariners had Olaus Magnus, who in 1539 charted these fantastic marine animals in his influential map of the Nordic countries, the Carta Marina. In Sea Monsters, mythologist Joseph Nigg brings readers face-to-face with these creatures and other magnificent components of Magnus’s map. Nearly two meters wide in total, the map’s nine wood-block panels comprise the largest and first realistic portrayal of the region. But in addition to its important geographic significance, Magnus’s map goes beyond cartography to scenes both domestic and mystic. Close to shore, Magnus shows humans interacting with common sea life—boats struggling to stay afloat, merchants trading, children swimming, and fisherman pulling lines. But from the offshore deeps rise some of the most terrifying sea creatures imaginable—like sea swine, whales as large as islands, and the Kraken. In this book, Nigg draws on Magnus’s own text to further describe and illuminate these inventive scenes and to flesh out the stories of the monsters. Sea Monsters is a stunning tour of a world that still holds many secrets for us land dwellers, who will forever be fascinated by reports of giant squid and the real-life creatures of the deep that have proven to be as bizarre and otherworldly as we have imagined for centuries. It is a gorgeous guide for enthusiasts of maps, monsters, and the mythic. “[A] beautiful new exploration of the Carta Marina.”—Wired
