Download or read book The Birds the Bees and the Platypuses written by Michael Gross and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Gross has been writing about science full time for the last eight years and as a night time hobby for the previous seven. From his treasure troves, he now presents his favourite science stories from these 15 years. What are the attractions that make him revisit a topic or reread an article again and again? Often, it's the sheer craziness of wildly unexpected findings or grotesquely oversized challenges. In other stories, there is a sexy element or an unexpected insight into the human condition. And sometimes, when reporting new and future technologies, the author just can't help thinking: >cooooooool!
Download or read book Platypuses written by Rebecca E. Hirsch and published by Lerner Digital ™. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Find out what a platypus has in common with a beaver or a dolphin. Learn what sets a platypus apart from a giraffe or a wild dog. Readers will compare key traits of platypuses—their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle—to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions about what makes this animal a mammal and how mammals are alike and different from each other.
Download or read book Birds Bees and Educated Fleas An A Z Guide to the Sexual Predilections of Animals from Aardvarks to Zebras written by Bruce Montague and published by Metro Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Birds do it, bees do it, Even educated fleas do it . . . 'So wrote Cole Porter in his famous song from 1928, 'Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love'. To which Bruce Montague, author of this enlightening and amusing collection, silently replied, 'Yes, but how do they do it?'Birds, Bees and Educated Fleas is an amusing A-Z of the courtship and mating habits of animals - including Homo sapiens sapiens. From well-hung South American drakes to shy camels arranging secret love trysts, female chameleons whose skin darkens when they're no longer in the mood to giraffes who swing their hips and swish their tails when they're feeling frisky, oysters that can change sex pretty much at will to stud rhinoceroses that can copulate three or four times a day for a week, this is a wide-ranging, light-hearted but well-researched look at the world of animal love and lust. Arranged alphabetically by species, here is the perfect handbook for any peeping Tom or Tomasina who wants to know what goes on in the animal world behind the - metaphorical - bedroom curtains.
Download or read book Platypuses written by Sara Louise Kras and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Simple text and photographs present platypuses, how they look, where they live, and what they do"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Platypuses written by Julie Murray and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains what a platypus is, its natural habitat, and other information on the unique creature.
Download or read book The Platypus written by Jack Myers and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Boyd loved horses as a child; now she is helping to save an endangered species of wild horses.
Download or read book Platypus written by Christina Leaf and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The platypus is one strange-looking animal! These mammals have duck-like bills, beaver-like tails, otter-like bodies, and even venomous stingers on their webbed feet! Find out how these bizarre animals use their unique features in this title for beginning readers.
Download or read book Platypuses written by Megan Borgert-Spaniol and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the worldÕs unusual animals, the platypus resembles a duck, beaver, and otter. Most graceful underwater, these mammals have all the tools necessary, from goggles and webbed feet, to a paddle for a tail. Swim along in this platypus-packed title for reluctant readers.
Download or read book Platypus written by William Caper and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitat of the platypus.
Download or read book Platypus Flats written by Neville West and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We don't cry because we are weak! It is our healing power speaking. As a survivor of abuse I carried the burden alone for 60 years. When I did speak out I changed; my world changed. So did my words. The djinn of denial could not be put back in the bottle. Abuse is the iceberg tip of neglect in the sea of institutional oversight. It is just the tip of significant failure of someone to do their duty. They are the true perpetrators. We all have a role to play in creating change if we are not just going to bark up the dark side of history. I don't seek medals for words dipped in gold and blood, nor am I looking for a hill to die on. As a survivor I am, unfortunately, not alone. Yet abuse is invisible to outsiders. We can only reveal it by illustrating the spaces around it. Shame cannot live in the light. We must put a human face to it. This ore took a lifetime to mine. Through blood and dust and swelter I wrought these words, not with my hand but with my heart. N.W.
Download or read book Why Do Platypuses Lay Eggs written by Patricia Fletcher and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictionary definition of a mammal says that mammals give birth to live young, but thats not always true. Echidnas and platypuses, while still technically mammals, lay eggs. Why they do so is one of the strangest adaptations of mammals on Earth. Readers explore this and many other incredible and bizarre adaptations of all kinds of mammals, including the purpose of milk teeth and the hairy truth about camouflage and the coats of many animals. Full-color photographs showcase each adaptation for curious readers as they absorb information about life cycles, predator-prey relationships, and more from the main content.
Download or read book Platypus written by Joan Short and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the platypus, an animal found only in Australia.
Download or read book Platypuses written by Caitie McAneney and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What animal has the bill of a duck, the body of an otter, and the feet of a frog? It’s the platypus, an ancient animal unlike any other on Earth! When scientists first saw the odd-looking creature, they thought it was fake. Readers will learn why in this scientific guide to platypuses, which covers the animal’s unique body, special defense mechanisms, and how they’ve outlasted even the dinosaurs. Colorful images reinforce the content, while fact boxes, glossary, index, and supplemental websites provide opportunities for additional learning.
Download or read book The Platypus written by Joan Short and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Lean Country written by Iain Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-22 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Lean Country captures the rich history and haunting character of the New England region of northern New South Wales. The authors explore how memory - of land, of family, of patterns of life on the other side of the world - has influenced the identity of New England. They also consider how the high country itself has shaped its people and their sense of regional uniqueness. In doing so, this book sets a new direction for understanding Australia as a whole. Weaving together the histories of human settlement, economic, social and cultural development, as well as interactions with the environment, High Lean Country shows how colonial settlers strived for decades to literally create a new England. It traces the story of the graduates of Oxford and Cambridge who turned their hands to sheep husbandry and developed a squattocracy, the establishment of schools and other institutions, and the cultivation of traditional arts. It also examines the early colonial bushranging period, and a history of not always friendly relations between white settlers and the local Aboriginal population. A project of the Heritage Futures Research Centre at the University of New England, High Lean Country is a fascinating study of this distinctive Australian high country.
Download or read book Shy the Platypus written by Leslie Rees and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Library Publishing presents a stylish, highly illustrated re-publication of Leslie Rees' classic tale, SHY THE PLATYPUS. This exciting story of the life of a young platypus describes her growing up and experiencing encounters with humans, other platypuses and different animals. Leslie Rees published over 40 children's books and won major awards (Order of Australia and NSW Premier's Award) for his 'contribution to Australian literature'. Leslie Rees' animal stories were an important part of the Australian children's books from the 1940s onwards. The Rees animal books (original editions in 1940s-50s) were republished in a number of editions by different publishers over the next 50 years.
Download or read book Fly with Me written by Jane Yolen and published by National Geographic Kids. This book was released on 2018 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Birds and their behavior through the seasons and relationship to man."--
