Download or read book Tree Kangaroos written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-12-11 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree Kangaroos: Science and Conservation, a volume in the Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes series, provides an overview of tree kangaroo species and their relationship with humans. This exciting, interdisciplinary work on tree kangaroo science and conservation is divided into six major sections: (1) tree kangaroo evolution, genetics, taxonomy, ecology, behavior, and conservation status; (2) current and emerging threats to the species; (3) conservation programs in Australia and New Guinea with an emphasis on the human aspect of conservation; (4) the role of zoos in conservation solutions; (5) techniques and technologies to study this elusive marsupial; and (6) what is needed to keep tree kangaroos and their landscapes healthy in the future. The series on Biodiversity of the World: Conservation from Genes to Landscapes includes titles focused on specific species or taxa across disciplinary boundaries and spatial scales-from genes to landscapes. Volumes are edited and written by prominent scholars and practitioners to illuminate and advance biodiversity science and conservation. Includes coverage of all known tree kangaroo species Features contributions edited and written by the world's leading researchers and practitioners focusing on these scientifically mysterious marsupials Provides accessible scientific and general information to a wide audience including students, academics, researchers, conservation professionals, policy makers, business leaders, zoo professionals, health professionals, and people interested in community-based conservation Presents the current knowledge of tree kangaroos, helping to lay the foundations and best practices for future conservation and research in Australia and New Guinea
Download or read book Quest for the Tree Kangaroo written by Sy Montgomery and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Why Koala Has a Stumpy Tail written by Martha Hamilton and published by Triangle Interactive, Inc. . This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Along or Enhanced eBook: When Tree Kangaroo and Koala dig a well to get some water, Tree Kangaroo ends up doing all of the work and Koala ends up with a stumpy tail in this origin story from Australia.
Download or read book Bobby the Tree Kangaroo written by Eva-Marie Welsh and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby the Tree Kangaroo is a beautifully illustrated Tree Kangaroo Kids Book and Australian Made & Owned! This children's book is about the unique Australian marsupial and wildlife. It's educational, cute & funny. Beautiful glossy colourful & bright art work makes it stand out. 11 Australian book titles available! Very popular!About Bobby the Tree Kangaroo Kids Book: The Tree Kangaroo children's story is about a Tree Kangaroo joey learning to climb. There is no shortage of encouragement. This Australian marsupial's habitat is Far North Tropical Queensland in Australia. Other unique Australian animals are included. Likewise, previous book characters of evabooks are making an appearance. They are: Cassy the cassowary from Cassy's Tale, and Croaky the green tree frog from Where is Croaky? Details about Bobby the Tree Kangaroo: In the beginning, Bobby lives in his mother's pouch, while she climbs around the trees. Later, the Tree Kangaroo parents encourage him to climb by himself. Firstly, Bobby scratches around a tree trunk he wants to climb. A Sulphur-crested cockatoo calls out in encouragement. Finally, he climbs a tree. Down below, Cassy the cassowary jumps up and down to show that she also has strong legs. Later, the little Tree Kangaroo can be found sitting in the tree tops feeding on leaves. They taste so much better now, because he picked them all by himself.The book features beautiful art work. Illustrations include Rainbow lorikeets, Ulysses butterflies, frog-mouth owls, green tree snakes, cassowaries, Cairns Bird-wing butterflies, green tree frogs and Azure kingfishers. Also, included are paintings of tropical rainforest plants, Licuala Palms, Elkhorn and Staghorn ferns, as well as vines and Tree ferns.Other book titles of evabooks are: Cassy's Tale (cassowary), Where is Croaky? (green tree frog), Nipper the Crocodile, Paddles the Platypus, Shelly the Sea Turtle, Lyssie the Butterfly (Ulysses butterfly), Who is Laughing? (kookaburra), Spikey's Day Out (echidna), Fuzzy the Koala, Tippy the Kangaroo.
Download or read book Tree Kangaroos written by Tim Fridtjof Flannery and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A three-part scientific work based on a study conducted by scientists from the Australian Museum in PNG, Irian Jaya and Australia. Contains contributions from a range of people including biologists, curators and those who live with the tree kangaroos. Part one considers a brief history of the animal and people who co-share the environment; Part two looks at tree kangaroos evolution, distribution and taxonomy; Part three is about the biology of the animal. Colour plates accompany part two with colour illustrations and diagrams in parts one and three. Includes appendices, biographical notes, references and an index. Illustrations are by Peter Schouten.
Download or read book Wild About You written by Judy Sierra and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tree kangaroo at the zoo would like nothing more than a baby of her own. So, when a new egg arrives via the endangered species van, the 'roo jumps at the chance to take care of it, even when no one else wants it. Soon, out comes a penguin and all the animals chip in to help because, as the tree kangaroo says, "Penguins eat fishes." Told in Judy Sierra's classic rollicking rhyme, and paired with Marc Brown's breathtaking folk-art style paintings, Wild About You! is another delightful collaboration from this New York Times bestselling duo that fans of Wild About Books and ZooZical will want to adopt for their own book collections.
Download or read book Macropods written by Graeme Coulson and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2010 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major symposium on macropods (kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos), sponsored by the Australian Mammal Society, was held in July 2006 at the University of Melbourne. It brought together the many recent advances in the biology of this diverse group of mammals and looked at: structure and function; neglected macropods; population biology; and macropod management. A total of 78 authors have contributed 34 chapters to the book, which concentrates on new developments in macropod biology, including topics such as genomics, landscape ecology, endangered species and fertility control.
Download or read book Kangaroo written by Stephen Jackson and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is in the same genre as Platypus and Koala . These are wonderful books about Australia's unique animals written for the general public. Social, anecdotal and historical with a very respectable scientific base. This is a logical and dare I say overdue addition to this group of books.
Download or read book Bettongs Potoroos and the Musky Rat kangaroo written by Andrew W. Claridge and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2007 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an extraordinary glimpse into the serective lives of these unusual marsupials.
Download or read book Tree Kangaroo written by Dee Phillips and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's nighttime in a rain forest. High in the branches of a tree, a busy animal is looking for food. The treetop forager is a tree kangaroo--an animal that looks a lot like the ground-dwelling kangaroos of Australia, but which spends its life climbing and leaping through the treetops! Filled with information perfectly suited to the abilities and interests of its second-grade audience, this colorful, fact-filled volume introduces young readers to the everyday life of a tree kangaroo. How is the animal's body adapted to its treetop life? What does the tree kangaroo eat? How does it move from tree to tree? And how do female tree kangaroos keep their tiny joeys safe as they leap through the rain forest, sometimes jumping the length of a school bus? Throughout the book, readers are encouraged to make scientific observations based on the book's images and answer questions about tree kangaroo's lives and physical characteristics. This innovative approach to teaching about wild animals gives young scientists the chance not only to read and learn the facts, but also to develop their own powers of observation and critical thinking.
Download or read book There Was a Tree written by Rachel Isadora and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A favorite children's song becomes a colorful book filled with African wildlife Also known as "The Green Grass Grew All Around," this popular song has been recorded by artists from Barney to Captain Kangaroo. Now "the prettiest tree that you ever did see" is a lovely acacia tree, where a baby starling is just about to hatch. Rachel Isadora gives children a fun, easy way to follow along with the cumulative lyrics by using rebus icons for the repeated words, as she did with 12 Days of Christmas. Sheet music is also included, making this irresistible fun!
Download or read book Baby Kangaroo Facts for Kids and Adults written by Les O. Tekcard and published by . This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the facts you would love to know about the Australian Kangaroo, Australia''s iconic animal. This book is a must have guide for anyone wanting to know all about kangaroos. Babies are smaller than 1 inch (2cm) at birth, and are born blind outside the mother''s pouch. After birth the newborn babies must find their way to the pouch where it feeds on mother''s milk. As baby kangaroos grow older they are called joeys. Joey kangaroos can easily hop in and out of the Mother''s pouch. Kangaroos are unable to walk backwards. Adult kangaroos can hop at speeds of 35mph (56kmh), stand up to 7ft (2.13m) and weigh up to 200lbs./90kg. Discover interesting facts about the differences between the tree kangaroo, red kangaroo and grey kangaroo. This excellent book is an interesting book for those who want to learn about kangaroos in the wild or those who want more information desiring to keep one as a pet.
Download or read book Tree Kangaroos written by Willow Clark and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kangaroos are best-known for using their large hind legs and huge feet to jump at high speeds across Australias outback. So what made the cousins of these ground-dwelling macropods take to the trees? Readers will learn how tree kangaroos are specially adapted to tree living and why they might have adopted this ecological niche over time. Fun facts, glorious full-color photographs, and fact-filled, age-appropriate text allow readers to explore life high above the ground with tree kangaroos.
Download or read book Outside and Inside Kangaroos written by Sandra Markle and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the inner and outer workings of kangaroos, including their diet, anatomy, and life cycle.
Download or read book Kakapo Rescue written by Sy Montgomery and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Sibert Medal Winner On remote Codfish Island off the southern coast of New Zealand live the last ninety-one kakapo parrots on earth. These trusting, flightless, and beautiful birds—the largest and most unusual parrots on earth—have suffered devastating population loss. Now, on an island refuge with the last of the species, New Zealand’s National Kakapo Recovery Team is working to restore the kakapo population. With the help of fourteen humans who share a single hut and a passion for saving these odd ground-dwelling birds, the kakapo are making a comeback in New Zealand. Follow intrepid animal lovers Sy Montgomery and Nic Bishop on a ten-day excursion to witness the exciting events in the life of the kakapo.
Download or read book Dot and the Kangaroo annotated written by Ethel C Pedley and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Dot had lost her way in the bush. She knew it, and was very frightened. She was too frightened in fact to cry, but stood in the middle of a little dry, bare space, looking around her at the scraggy growths of prickly shrubs that had torn her little dress to rags, scratched her bare legs and feet till they bled, and pricked her hands and arms as she had pushed madly through the bushes, for hours, seeking her home. Sometimes she looked up to the sky. But little of it could be seen because of the great tall trees that seemed to her to be trying to reach heaven with their far-off crooked branches. She could see little patches of blue sky between the tangled tufts of her way in the and was very drooping leaves, and, as the dazzling sunlight had faded, she began to think it was getting late, and that very soon it would be night.
Download or read book Throwim Way Leg written by Tim Flannery and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throwim Way Leg is unputdownable, a love letter to Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya. Tim Flannery befriends a shaman, climbs mountains never before scaled by Europeans, discovers new species and stumbles across the giant bones of extinct marsupials. And he writes movingly about the fate of indigenous people in the late twentieth century.
