Download or read book Amazing Animal Skin written by Linda Bozzo and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the skin of several animals that have adapted to their environments, from the scaly skin of a snake, to the quill-bearing hide of a porcupine.
Download or read book Animal Skins written by Mary Holland and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fur, feathers and scales are all animal coverings or skins. Animals use their skin to stay warm and dry, protect themselves or hide or even to warn other animals to stay away. Following Animal Noses, Animal Tails, Animal Ears, Animal Eyes, Animal Mouths (NSTA/CBC Outstanding Trade Science Award), and Animal Legs, Mary Holland continues her photographic Animal Anatomy and Adaptations series by the many different ways that animals use and rely on their skin covering adaptations to survive in their habitats.
Download or read book The Really Amazing Animal Book written by Dawn Sirett and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents miscellaneous facts about a variety of animals.
Download or read book Amazing Armored Animals written by Sandie Sowler and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces a variety of armored animals and describes how they defend themselves with built-in spines, spikes, scales, shells, and other types of outer coverings.
Download or read book Amazing Animals Book and DVD written by Reader's Digest and published by Reader's Digest. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With animals from all over the world, this book and DVD pack is bursting with amazing photographs, exciting footage, and fabulous facts about animals. Tigers, kangaroos, gorillas, porcupines, this book and DVD pack features dozens of amazing animals from all over the world. Fantastic facts and information for each animal accompany the full-color photographs, making this a wonderful treasury for young animal lovers. The approximate 40-minute DVD showcases incredible footage that kids will want to watch over and over again.
Download or read book The Soul of an Octopus written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan; jetting water to bounce balls; and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food. Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.
Download or read book The Illustrated Compendium of Amazing Animal Facts written by Maja Säfström and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller • An artfully playful collection of unexpected and remarkable facts about animals, illustrated by Swedish artist Maja Säfström. Did you know that an octopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can't walk backward? Or that a group of owls is called a parliament, or that they have three eyelids? Sea otters hold hands in their sleep, bees never sleep, and penguins laugh when they're tickled! This charming compendium contains over 100 pages of fascinating facts about the animal kingdom illustrated with whimsical detail.
Download or read book Amazing Animals written by Philippa Perry and published by World Book. This book was released on 1961-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the weirdest and wildest menagerie ever to strut across a page.
Download or read book Animal Beauty written by Christiane Nusslein-Volhard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated exploration of colors and patterns in the animal kingdom, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Are animals able to appreciate what humans refer to as “beauty”? The term scarcely ever appears nowadays in a scientific description of living things, but we humans may nonetheless find the colors, patterns, and songs of animals to be beautiful in apparently the same way that we see beauty in works of art. In Animal Beauty, Nobel Prize–winning biologist Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard describes how the colors and patterns displayed by animals arise, what they communicate, and how they function in the social life of animals. Watercolor drawings illustrate these amazing instances of animal beauty. Darwin addressed the topic of ornament in his 1871 book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, and did not hesitate to engage with criteria of beauty, convinced that animals experienced color and ornament as attractive and agreeable in the same way that we do, and that the role this played in mate choice pointed to a “sexual selection” distinct from natural selection. Nüsslein-Volhard examines key examples of ornament and sexual selection in the animal kingdom and lays the groundwork for biological aesthetics. Noting that color patterns have not been a research priority—perhaps because they appeared to be nonessential luxuries rather than functional necessities—Nüsslein-Volhard looks at recent scientific developments on the topic. In part because of Nüsslein-Volhard's own research on the zebrafish, it is now possible to decipher the molecular genetic mechanisms that lead to production of colors in animal skin and its appendages and control its pattern and distribution.
Download or read book Amazing Animal Teeth written by Linda Bozzo and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the teeth of several animals that have adapted to their environments, from the fangs of venomous snakes to the continuously growing teeth of a hamster.
Download or read book Amazing Animal Journeys written by Chris Packham and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year billions of animals migrate from one part of our planet to another. Travel around the world to meet some of the masters of migration and discover their incredible journeys in this beautiful, fact-filled non-fiction picture book by BBC wildlife expert, Chris Packham. From whales and wildebeest to butterflies and bats, you can discover each of their stories, pore over the map to see their migration routes and uncover extra information in the Find Out More section.
Download or read book Amazing Animal Shape Shifters written by Leon Gray and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the ways in which animals change their appearance to avoid predators or attract mates"--
Download or read book Amazing Animal Tails written by Linda Bozzo and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the tails of several animals that have adapted to their environments, from the massive fluke of a whale to the prehensile tale of a spider monkey.
Download or read book Amazing Animal Friendships written by Pavla Hanáčková and published by Scribblers. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating information book for younger readers shows how friendship can be found practically everywhere! It explores the weird and wonderful symbiotic relationships between animal species, from sharks and cleaner fish to zebras and birds. The spreads feature clear, bite-sized text and quirky illustrations. Printed laminated case format.
Download or read book Amazing Animal Feet written by Linda Bozzo and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the feet of several animals that have adapted to their environments, from the taloned feet of a hawk to the webbed feet of a duck.
Download or read book Skin written by Nina G. Jablonski and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. This book celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Author Jablonski begins with a look at skin's structure and functions and then tours its three-hundred-million-year evolution, delving into such topics as the importance of touch and how the skin reflects and affects emotions. She examines the modern human obsession with age-related changes in skin, especially wrinkles, then turns to skin as a canvas for self-expression, exploring our use of cosmetics, body paint, tattooing, and scarification"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Undercover Animals written by Camilla De La Bedoyere and published by Mortimer Books. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the animal kingdom's sneakiest tricksters Can you spot all the real-life creatures going "undercover" and hiding in these fun photos? Take a look at these amazing animal hide-and-seek experts With an entertaining combination of information and puzzles, Undercover Animals reveals just how well camouflaged all kinds of insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals can be. Inside, you'll find seahorses pretending to be seaweed, beautiful flowers that turn out to be mantises, sharks that look like the sea floor, a butterfly disguised as an owl, leaf-like geckos, color-changing cuttlefish and chameleons, a prowling tiger nearly vanishing into the grass, and more. Each right-hand page shows a photo of a natural environment with one or more sneaky creatures hiding. How fast can you find them? Then, turn the page to learn who's there, along with fascinating facts and stats on each animal.
