Download or read book National Geographic Kids Chapters Parrot Genius written by Moira Rose Donohue and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pig that does math tricks. A parrot that seems to know what she’s saying. A flying pig ... um, pug. These animals know what it means to be in the spotlight. Meet Mudslinger the superstar pig, Einstein the parrot genius, and Otis the skydiving dog. Read the stories of these three amazing animal superstars in Parrot Genius! Perfect for kids aging out of early readers, National Geographic Kids Chapters are written in simple prose appropriate to kids just reading on their own.
Download or read book National Geographic Kids Chapters Parrot Genius written by Moira Donohue and published by National Geographic Children's Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the stories of three amazing animals, including Einstein the genius parrot, Otis the skydiving dog, and Mudslinger a performing pig.
Download or read book The Genius of Birds written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lovely, celebratory. For all the belittling of ‘bird brains,’ [Ackerman] shows them to be uniquely impressive machines . . .” —New York Times Book Review “A lyrical testimony to the wonders of avian intelligence.” —Scientific American An award-winning science writer tours the globe to reveal what makes birds capable of such extraordinary feats of mental prowess Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds rival primates and even humans in their remarkable forms of intelligence. In The Genius of Birds, acclaimed author Jennifer Ackerman explores their newly discovered brilliance and how it came about. As she travels around the world to the most cutting-edge frontiers of research, Ackerman not only tells the story of the recently uncovered genius of birds but also delves deeply into the latest findings about the bird brain itself that are shifting our view of what it means to be intelligent. At once personal yet scientific, richly informative and beautifully written, The Genius of Birds celebrates the triumphs of these surprising and fiercely intelligent creatures. Ackerman is also the author of Birds by the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast.
Download or read book The Supersmart Parrot written by Mari Schuh and published by Lerner Publications ™. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parrots are known for their ability to mimic many different sounds, but they also use tools to eat. Readers will learn all this and more, including how some male parrots use tools to attract a mate.
Download or read book Flaubert s Parrot written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the internationally bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes a literary detective story of a retired doctor obsessed with the 19th century French author Flaubert—and with tracking down the stuffed parrot that once inspired him. • “A high literary entertainment carried off with great brio.” —The New York Times Book Review Julian Barnes playfully combines a detective story with a character study of its detective, embedded in a brilliant riff on literary genius. A compelling weave of fiction and imaginatively ordered fact, Flaubert's Parrot is by turns moving and entertaining, witty and scholarly, and a tour de force of seductive originality.
Download or read book The Bird Way written by Jennifer Ackerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the bird way of being, and the recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds -- how they live and how they think. “There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.” But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviors they have, for years, dismissed as anomalies or mysteries –– What they are finding is upending the traditional view of how birds conduct their lives, how they communicate, forage, court, breed, survive. They are also revealing the remarkable intelligence underlying these activities, abilities we once considered uniquely our own: deception, manipulation, cheating, kidnapping, infanticide, but also ingenious communication between species, cooperation, collaboration, altruism, culture, and play. Some of these extraordinary behaviors are biological conundrums that seem to push the edges of, well, birdness: a mother bird that kills her own infant sons, and another that selflessly tends to the young of other birds as if they were her own; a bird that collaborates in an extraordinary way with one species—ours—but parasitizes another in gruesome fashion; birds that give gifts and birds that steal; birds that dance or drum, that paint their creations or paint themselves; birds that build walls of sound to keep out intruders and birds that summon playmates with a special call—and may hold the secret to our own penchant for playfulness and the evolution of laughter. Drawing on personal observations, the latest science, and her bird-related travel around the world, from the tropical rainforests of eastern Australia and the remote woodlands of northern Japan, to the rolling hills of lower Austria and the islands of Alaska’s Kachemak Bay, Jennifer Ackerman shows there is clearly no single bird way of being. In every respect, in plumage, form, song, flight, lifestyle, niche, and behavior, birds vary. It is what we love about them. As E.O Wilson once said, when you have seen one bird, you have not seen them all.
Download or read book Ibn Al Haytham written by Libby Romero and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the life and work of a devout Muslim who was the first to hypothesize that vision occurs when light beams travel through the lens of a human eye.
Download or read book National Geographic Readers What Is an Archaeologist L3 written by Libby Romero and published by National Geographic Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decribes the role of the archaeologist, including what they do, what tools they use in the field, and the future of the profession.
Download or read book Cleopatra written by Barbara Kramer and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Level 3 fluent reader"--Page 4 of cover.
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum June 1689 to 1733 written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tristan s Retreat written by Neil C. Hearne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tristan Flynn, a well-known journalist in retirement, has written a book,'The Satanic State', under a pseudonym. It has resulted in a fatwah. Will the jehadists identify him and exact the prescribed punishment? Detective Inspector Trent and Sergeant Rose Beaumont arrive in Cornwall to confirm his identity and to discover what the lessee of an island, Ahmad Khan, who has populated it with Muslims and alienated the local community, is planning. Beneath the dramatic structure, however, the novel is a multi-faceted study of old age often leavened with humour.
Download or read book The Parrot s Theorem written by Denis Guedj and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Ruche, a Parisian bookseller, receives a bequest from a long lost friend in the Amazon of a vast library of math books, which propels him into a great exploration of the story of mathematics. Meanwhile Max, whose family lives with Mr. Ruche, takes in a voluble parrot who will discuss math with anyone. When Mr. Ruche learns of his friend's mysterious death in a Brazilian rainforest, he decides that with the parrot's help he will use these books to teach Max and his brother and sister the mysteries of Euclid's Elements, Pythagoras's Theorem and the countless other mathematical wonders. But soon it becomes clear that Mr. Ruche has inherited the library for reasons other than enlightenment, and before he knows it the household is racing to prevent the parrot and vital, new theorems from falling into the wrong hands. An immediate bestseller when first published in France, The Parrot's Theorem charmingly combines a straightforward history of mathematics and a first-rate murder mystery.
Download or read book Green Genius s 101 Questions and Answers written by Madhu Singh Sirohi and published by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No species has changed the environment of the earth as much, and as fast, as human beings. As more and more life forms become endangered, it is time to get to know our environment more closely so that we can protect it better. Increase your green quotient and learn the answers to some less frequently asked questions. Join Green Genius as he takes you on a fascinating journey of discovery of the world around you.
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Download or read book National Geographic Kids Chapters Parrot Genius And More True Stories of Amazing Animal Talents NGK Chapters National Geographic Kids Chapters written by Moira Rose Donohue and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pig that does math tricks. A parrot that seems to know what she’s saying. A flying pig ... um, pug. These animals know what it means to be in the spotlight. Meet Mudslinger the superstar pig, Einstein the parrot genius, and Otis the skydiving dog. Read the stories of these three amazing animal superstars in Parrot Genius! Perfect for kids aging out of early readers, National Geographic Kids Chapters are written in simple prose appropriate to kids just reading on their own.
