Download or read book The Bird and the Ant written by Aesop and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aesop s Fables written by Aesop and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-08 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesop's Fables, attributed to the legendary storyteller Aesop from ancient Greece, comprise a collection of succinct and timeless moral tales. These fables feature animal characters, each symbolizing human qualities or foibles, and they convey essential moral lessons through engaging and straightforward narratives. Their hallmark characteristics include simplicity, accessibility, and universal themes that explore human behavior, ethics, and wisdom across a wide range of scenarios. These fables remain enduring classics, such as "The Tortoise and the Hare" and "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," continuing to captivate readers of all ages by imparting moral wisdom through memorable storytelling.
Download or read book Little Ant and the Dove written by S. M. R. Saia and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Ant is too busy to do a favor for the weevil, and he doubts the weevil would ever be able to repay him anyway. But when his friend the stick insect is snatched by a dove, Little Ant learns that you never know when you might be in a position to help a friend. This story is a reimagining of Aesop's classic fable, "The Ant and the Dove," and teaches that one good turn deserves another. About the Series The Little Ant books are reimaginings of Aesop's classic fables, teaching timeless lessons like "appearances can be deceiving" and "one good turn deserves another." Brought to life by Tina Perko's vibrant and whimsical illustrations, the stories follow Little Ant as he navigates through the challenges and frustrations of growing up. In the tradition of the classic series the Berenstain Bears, Frances, and Thomas the Tank Engine, Little Ant's adventures provide him with opportunities to build character and learn valuable lessons about friendship, kindness, empathy, teamwork, courage, and the importance of being true to yourself. Connect with Little Ant Visit Little Ant's website to download free coloring sheets, activities, and lesson plans. Follow Little Ant on Facebook at @littleantnews. Follow Little Ant on Instagram at @littleantnews.
Download or read book Beasts at Bedtime written by Liam Heneghan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fresh new look at animal tales, often classic, and how they pertain to the present-day and our often fraught relationship to our environment.” —Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many children’s books, however, also lie profound teachings about the natural world that can help children develop an educated and engaged appreciation of the dynamic environment they inhabit. In Beasts at Bedtime, scientist (and father) Liam Heneghan examines the environmental underpinnings of children’s stories. From Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter, Heneghan unearths the universal insights into our inextricable relationship with nature that underlie so many classic children’s stories. Some of the largest environmental challenges in coming years—from climate instability, the extinction crisis, freshwater depletion, and deforestation—are likely to become even more severe as this generation of children grows up. Though today’s young readers will bear the brunt of these environmental calamities, they will also be able to contribute to environmental solutions if prepared properly. And all it takes is an attentive eye: Heneghan shows how the nature curriculum is already embedded in bedtime stories, from the earliest board books like The Rainbow Fish to contemporary young adult classics like The Hunger Games. This book enthralls as it engages. Beasts at Bedtime will help parents, teachers, and guardians extend those cozy times curled up together with a good book into a lifetime of caring for our planet. “Beasts at Bedtime is proof that most kidlit has teachable moments embedded in it.” —Toronto Star
Download or read book The Ants and the Bird written by AQEEL AHMED and published by AQEEL AHMED. This book was released on 2023-05-06 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the ants and the bird starts with a group of ants listening to a bird sing and commenting on how beautiful the bird's voice is. When the bird makes the kind offer to teach them how to sing as beautifully as it does, they are surprised by the idea. But for the ants to keep teaching the bird how to sing, the bird has said that the ants must bring it food every day. The queen of an ant colony is the worker in charge of reproduction, As time goes on, the ants get tired of collecting food for the bird, and they finally let the bird know how they feel. The bird listens to their worries, apologizes for what it did, and then asks the ants to sing with it. They keep singing together and making beautiful music that makes other people in the forest feel happy and calm. The bird gets sick one day and can no longer sing or fly after that. The other ants help their friend by giving him food, water, and company while they take care of his needs. Even though the bird is in bad shape, it can still hear the ants singing, which makes it feel peaceful and happy. The bird dies in the end, leaving the ants to mourn their loss after being left alone. The things that happen in the book teach us about how music can bring people together and make them feel calm and at peace. In addition, it shows how important it is to follow our own interests, work with others to reach a shared goal, and always be open to learning. Also, the story shows how important it is to have compassion, empathy, and forgiveness if you want to have good relationships. The story of the bird and the ants reminds us to enjoy our time with the people we care about and to be kind and understanding to those who are going through hard times. It teaches us how important it is to take responsibility for our actions and apologize to people when we have hurt them. The story is a powerful reminder of how uncertain life is and how important it is to build lasting relationships based on mutual respect, understanding, and shared interests to find happiness. Everything Starts Here: There was a time when a group of ants lived there. They lived deep in the woods. Most people think that ants are one of the most interesting groups of animals in the natural world. Ants have been around for millions of years, and there are now over 12,000 different kinds in different parts of the world. Some of these species have gained a reputation for how hard they work and how much they care about their families. Even though they are small, these ants have a lot of strength and drive for their size. They spend their days looking for food and making nests. Their hard work helps keep the ecosystem in which they live in balance. One of the most interesting things about ants is how complicated their social lives are. They live in groups called colonies, which can have anywhere from a few hundred to a few million people in them at any given time. In each colony, there is a very well-organized social system that allows the ants to work together to reach a shared goal. The queen of an ant colony is the worker in charge of reproduction. She is the one who lays eggs, which keep the colony alive. Several worker ants help the queen, and each of them oversees getting food, taking care of the young, and keeping the nest in good shape. The most important part of the colony is the worker ants. They are the ones who leave the nest every day to look for food and often travel long distances to do so. They use a mix of pheromones and visual clues to find their way back to the nest. When they get there, they tell the queen and the rest of the group what they have found. It's amazing how much food a group of ants can collect in just one day. A single group of a certain species can collect as many as 20,000 seeds in one day. After that, the food is carefully stored and then given to the places in the colony that need it. Ants are very good at finding food, and they also know a lot about how to build things. With the help of their powerful jaws, which they use to move soil, leaves, and other things, they build complex buildings. These buildings can house tens of thousands of people. Most of the time, these buildings have a high level of order, with different rooms and passageways used for different things. Some types of ants may even raise other insects, like aphids, to get their poop. These ants will protect the aphids from any possible enemies and move them to other plants so that they always have food. Even though they are hard workers, ants face a lot of competition in the natural world. They are eaten by many different animals, like birds, crabs, and other types of invertebrates. On top of that, they must deal with the effects of things like floods, drought, and very high temperatures. In recent years, humans have destroyed ants' natural habitats by building cities and cutting down trees. This has put ants in a dangerous situation. Several different kinds of ants have gone extinct because of this, which can have effects on the whole environment. Ants, on the other hand, have shown that they can change very well. They have been around for millions of years because they have a well-organized social system and are willing to work hard. This has helped them do well in a wide range of situations. Scientists have also done a lot of research on ants. Scientists have been studying ants for a long time, and what they have learned has helped us understand how complicated the natural world is. Ants, for example, have been studied a lot as a model organism to learn more about social behavior and how people talk to each other. Scientists have learned more about how social systems and animal communication work by watching ant colonies in the wild and in the lab. The Ants and the bird is a lovely story about how music can change things and how a strange bird and ants become friends. The ants were going about their daily business when suddenly, they heard a beautiful tune carried by the wind. When they looked up, they saw a bird singing loudly from a tree branch not too far away. The bird's song was so beautiful that the bugs gathered around to hear it. The bird's song was a nice break for the ants, who worked hard all-day building nests and gathering food. They had never heard anything like the song before, and its majestic quality made them want to listen to it. As the bird kept singing, the ants' desire grew stronger as the song went on. They concluded that they, too, wanted to write beautiful music and express themselves in ways that went beyond the routines of working and living. So, the bugs approached the bird and asked it to teach them how to sing. At first, the bird looked like it was scared. It had never taught anyone how to sing before, so it seemed unlikely that the ants could learn. On the other hand, when they saw the amazed and surprised looks on the ants' faces, they decided to give it a try. The birds started teaching the ants how to sing because of this. The bird would then sing a note, and the ants would try to copy what they heard. At first, it was difficult for the ants to keep up. Their small voices weren't strong enough to fight with the bird's song. On the other hand, they worked hard to improve their skills and were eager to learn. Every day, they worked out, and their little bodies moved to the beat of the music. The ants' singing started to get better as time went on. They figured out how to make beautiful tunes that went well together, which made the people who lived in the forest amazed and happy. People and animals that lived in the forest began to hear the ants' song. People would gather to listen, and when they heard the beautiful music coming from such small creatures, their heads would drop. When the bugs found out that their work had worked, they were so happy that they could hardly hold it in. They had learned to sing and had a new respect for all the different kinds of music. They never stopped thinking about the bird that taught them how to sing. They were thankful for the institution's patience and guidance because they knew that without it, they would never have learned anything new. With each day that went by, the bugs and the birds got to know each other better. When they sang together, the sounds of their individual voices blended beautifully. The bird looked like it belonged to their group, while the insects looked like they were from the same family. But even as they sang together, the ants knew that no matter how hard they tried, they would never be able to thank the bird for all it had done for them. They knew that they could never thank the bird enough for teaching them how to sing, because it had given them a gift that could not be measured. So, the bird and the ants kept singing together every day, making beautiful music that made everyone who heard it. Real happiness comes from doing what you love and being able to share that love with other people. This meant that they had to learn to sing and share their songs with the rest of the world. That meant teaching other people how to find their own passions and live life to the fullest.
Download or read book The Ant and the Elephant written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1972 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many creatures are helped when two animals refuse to conform to the laws of the jungle. Of all the animals the elephant rescues, only the tiny ant returns the favour.
Download or read book The Ants written by Bert Hölldobler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Arctic to South Africa - one finds them everywhere: Ants. Making up nearly 15% of the entire terrestrial animal biomass, ants are impressive not only in quantitative terms, they also fascinate by their highly organized and complex social system. Their caste system, the division of labor, the origin of altruistic behavior and the complex forms of chemical communication makes them the most interesting group of social organisms and the main subject for sociobiologists. Not least is their ecological importance: Ants are the premier soil turners, channelers of energy and dominatrices of the insect fauna. TOC:The importance of ants.- Classification and origins.- The colony life cycle.- Altruism and the origin of the worker caste.- Colony odor and kin recognition.- Queen numbers and domination.- Communication.- Caste and division of labor.- Social homeostasis and flexibility.- Foraging and territorial strategies.- The organization of species communities.- Symbioses among ant species.- Symbioses with other animals.- Interaction with plants.- The specialized predators.- The army ants.- The fungus growers.- The harvesters.- The weaver ants.- Collecting and culturing ants.- Glossary.- Bibliography.- Index.
Download or read book Dr Eleanor s Book of Common Ants written by Eleanor Spicer Rice and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects—with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark—as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike, ants decompose dead wood, turn over soil (in some places more than earthworms), and even help plant forests by distributing seeds. But while fewer than thirty of the nearly one thousand ant species living in North America are true pests, we cringe when we see them marching across our kitchen floors. No longer! In this witty, accessible, and beautifully illustrated guide, Eleanor Spicer Rice, Alex Wild, and Rob Dunn metamorphose creepy-crawly revulsion into myrmecological wonder. Emerging from Dunn’s ambitious citizen science project Your Wild Life (an initiative based at North Carolina State University), Dr. Eleanor’s Book of Common Ants provides an eye-opening entomological overview of the natural history of species most noted by project participants—and even offers tips on keeping ant farms in your home. Exploring species from the spreading red imported fire ant to the pavement ant, and featuring Wild’s stunning photography, this guide will be a tremendous resource for teachers, students, and scientists alike. But more than this, it will transform the way we perceive the environment around us by deepening our understanding of its littlest inhabitants, inspiring everyone to find their inner naturalist, get outside, and crawl across the dirt—magnifying glass in hand.
Download or read book The Race to Save the Lord God Bird written by Phillip Hoose and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker." The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award.
Download or read book The Little Ant and the White Bird written by Debbie Croft and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Field Guide to the Ants of New England written by Aaron M. Ellison and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants—the “little things that run the world.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, 300-plus photographs, and regional distribution maps as composite illustrations for every species, this guide will introduce amateur and professional naturalists and biologists, teachers and students, and environmental managers and pest-control professionals to more than 140 ant species found in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. The detailed drawings and species descriptions, together with the high-magnification photographs, will allow anyone to identify and learn about ants and their diversity, ecology, life histories, and beauty. In addition, the book includes sections on collecting ants, ant ecology and evolution, natural history, and patterns of geographic distribution and diversity to help readers gain a greater understanding and appreciation of ants.
Download or read book The Ant and the Peacock written by Helena Cronin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a success story. It explains two long-running puzzles of the theory of natural selection. How can natural selection favour those, like the ant, that renounce tooth and claw in favour of the public-spirited ways of the commune? How can it explain the peacock's tail, flamboyant and a burden to its bearer; surely selection would act against useless ornamentation? Helena Cronin's enthralling account blends history, science and philosophy in a gripping tale that is scholarly, entertaining and eminently readable. The hardback edition was selected by Nature as one of the best scientific books in 1992. Also the New York Times chose it as one of their best books of 1992. The author divides her time between the Philosophy Department at the London School of Economics and the Zoology Department at Oxford.
Download or read book The Dove and the Ant written by Pegasus and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ant topples into a stream while drinking water and is saved by a dove. Will the little ant get a chance to express her gratitude to the kind dove for saving her life? Read the heart-warming tale of the Dove and the Ant in this cute and wonderfully illustrated storybook about how a good deed is alwaysrewarded. Adapted especially for little readers, this book is the perfect read aloud story for kids.
Download or read book One Hundred Hungry Ants written by Elinor J. Pinczes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-09-27 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tale of ants parading toward a picnic is “one of those rare gems capable of entertaining while it instructs” (Middlesex News). One hundred hungry ants march off single file to sample a picnic, but when the going gets too slow, they divide into two rows of fifty, then four rows of twenty-five . . . until they take so long that the picnic is gone! “The unexpected pairing of sophisticated art and light-hearted text lends this book particular distinction.” —Publishers Weekly “The illustrations . . . use a pleasing palette and energetic lines to depict ants with highly individual characters.” —Horn Book
Download or read book Hey Little Ant written by Phillip Hoose and published by Tricycle Press. This book was released on 1998-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect tool to help inspire compassion in our world’s youth.” —Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist The 20th anniversary edition of the hilarious picture book that poses the classic conundrum: To squish or not to squish? With a meaningful message about the importance of caring for creatures big and small, this is a perfect gift for Earth Day. What would you do if the ant you were about to step on looked up and started talking? Would you stop and listen? That’s what happens in this funny, thought-provoking book. Originally a song by a father-daughter team, this suprising conversation between a tiny ant and a little girl is bound to inspire important discussions about caring, kindness and respect for both animals and humans.
Download or read book Are You an Ant written by Judy Allen and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backyard Books: Are You an Ant? by Judy Allen with illustrations by Tudor Humphries will give children who love to track ants an inside look at the everyday life of this fascinating insect, as they explore the similarities and differences to themselves.
Download or read book Army Ant Parade written by April Pulley Sayre and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts an army of ants as it parades through the rain forest in search of a meal.
