Download or read book Quiz Yourself Clever Animals of the World written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover your own inner Attenborough with this fact-packed, quick-quiztastic book, which covers more than 120 animals, from terrifying tigers to adorable apes! This amazing book welcomes you to the animal kingdom where you can meet more than 100 species, ranging from lions to butterflies and everything in between. Stunning pictures and fast facts will allow you to amass a wealth of knowledge in a fun way. Meet familiar creatures, including polar bears and tigers, and unbelievable ones, such as a vampire bat and a trumpetfish, with each animal having its own quiz questions to test your knowledge on what you've learned. For even more fun, get friends involved and quiz each other! Every creature is shown in beautiful detail, with quiz questions surrounding its portrait. Turn the page to find the answers to the questions—delivered in fast-fact style, including what they eat, where they live, how big they are compared to humans, and more images and facts. A jaw-dropping spectrum of animal types—from fish and birds to reptiles and mammals—provides a learning experience like no other!
Download or read book Animal Knowledge Genius written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blow the minds of your friends and family with your animal knowledge. This brilliant nature quiz book is suited for hours of family fun! Do you know the difference between a great white shark and a giant manta ray? Can you spot the difference between a dung beetle and a tiger beetle? Challenge yourself and the family to this brain-busting nature challenge! In this exciting family activity book, you’ll find: • “Reference” spreads which introduce a topic and give all the essential info. • “Quiz” pages, packed with pictures to pore over, put your knowledge to the test. • “Test Yourself” panels across three levels of difficulty — starter, challenger and genius. • A fun fact with every image gives a clue. • Answers appear upside down on the page. This stunning visual encyclopedia of animal knowledge is packed with hundreds of fantastic facts. It’s an irresistibly interactive kids book that will have you challenging yourself and the family over and over again. This entertaining general knowledge book for kids will test your brainpower and challenge you to learn so much more. Can you complete all these levels of difficulty as the challenge gets harder? Packed with more than 60 topics across the animal world and eye-popping images, this animal activity book is excellent for brain training and makes learning way more fun. It’s perfect for children ages 9-12, or geniuses of all ages. Look out for more fun family quiz books in this series from DK. Put your general knowledge skills to the test and take on the Knowledge Genius! brain-busting challenge!
Download or read book Feral Children and Clever Animals written by Douglas K. Candland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, Douglas Candland shows that as we begin to understand the way animals and non-speaking humans "think," we hold up a mirror of sorts to our own mental world, and gain profound insights into human nature. Weaving together diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and his own enlightening commentary, Candland brings to life a series of extraordinary stories. He begins with a look at past efforts to civilize feral children. We meet Victor, the Wild Boy of Aveyron, now famous as the subject of a Truffaut film; Kaspar Hauser, raised in a cell, civilized, and then assassinated; and the Wolf Girls of India, found early this century huddled among wolf pups in a forest den (they were originally believed to be ghosts by superstitious villagers, who nearly shot them as they were being captured). In each case, it was hoped that the study of these children would help clarify the age-old nature/nurture debate, but, as Candland shows, so much of the information "revealed" was really only a projection of beliefs previously held by the investigating scientists. Candland then turns to "clever animals." We learn how the investigation of "Clever Hans," the German horse who could calculate square roots, proved to be a first step in the direction of behaviorism (researchers found that Hans was being tipped off by the subtle and unwitting body language of his owner and other observers, who would bend almost imperceptibly at the waist with every hoof beat, and stand erect when the correct count was reached). And Candland discusses the many attempts to communicate with our closest neighbor, the apes. We read of Richard Lynch Garner's 1892 experiment living with chimpanzees in Gabon (he taught one to say the French word "feu"), and of Gua, raised by W.N. and L.A. Kellogg alongside their own son Donald, and of the latest successes of teaching sign language to such precocious apes as Sarah, Sherman, Austin, and Koko. Throughout, Candland illuminates the boldest and most intriguing efforts yet to extend our world to that of our fellow creatures. And he shows that, in the end, our effort to "make contact" is a reflection of the way in which we as a species create and order our universe. Humans have long shown a wish to connect with the silent minds around them. In assembling and interpreting the compelling tales in this book, Candland offers us a new understanding not only of the animal kingdom, but of the very nature of humanity, and our place in the great chain of being.
Download or read book Quiz Yourself Clever Trees of the World written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the wonderful world of trees with this fact-packed quiz book! Explore the plant kingdom and meet more than 100 species of trees in this quiz book for children aged 9+, ranging from the mighty Californian redwood to the ancient banyan tree. Every tree is shown in beautiful detail, with quiz questions that will encourage engagement. Turn the page to find the answers to the questions - delivered in fast-fact style, including size, location, and distinguishing features - alongside close-up pictures of the bark, leaves, and fruit. This nature quiz book for children offers: - Fast and fun learning through the use of detailed tree images and interesting facts. - Hundreds of quick-fire questions for children to quiz themselves and challenge friends and family. - Information that has been endorsed and authenticated by experts and up-to-date nature knowledge. Vivid pictures and fast facts will allow children to gather a wealth of knowledge in a fun way! In no time, you'll be able to tell sycamore from silver birch, aspen from ash, and peach from plum. Discover the unique qualities of each tree, together with how it is used in art, industry, architecture, and science. For even more fun, get friends involved and quiz each other! More in the series If you enjoyed Quiz Yourself Clever: Trees of the World, then why not test yourself with another quiz book to boost your knowledge? Try Quiz Yourself Clever: Rocks & Minerals and get to grips with fascinating rock and mineral forms, or Quiz Yourself Clever: Animals and learn about weird and wonderful species all over the world.
Download or read book What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions written by Vinciane Despret and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword Is it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex relations? Are they the new celebrities of the twenty-first century? This book poses twenty-six such questions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what they think about, and what they want. In a delightful abecedarium of twenty-six chapters, Vinciane Despret argues that behaviors we identify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong to humans. She does so by exploring incredible and often funny adventures about animals and their involvements with researchers, farmers, zookeepers, handlers, and other human beings. Do animals have a sense of humor? In reading these stories it is evident that they do seem to take perverse pleasure in creating scenarios that unsettle even the greatest of experts, who in turn devise newer and riskier hypotheses that invariably lead them to conclude that animals are not nearly as dumb as previously thought. These deftly translated accounts oblige us, along the way, to engage in both ethology and philosophy. Combining serious scholarship with humor that will resonate with anyone, this book—with a foreword by noted French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist of science Bruno Latour—is a must not only for specialists but also for general readers, including dog owners, who will never look at their canine companions the same way again.
Download or read book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are written by Frans de Waal and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: "A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of nonhuman minds." —Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? explores the oddities and complexities of animal cognition—in crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, chimpanzees, and bonobos—to reveal how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. Did you know that octopuses use coconut shells as tools, that elephants classify humans by gender and language, and that there is a young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame? Fascinating, entertaining, and deeply informed, de Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.
Download or read book In Focus Intelligent Animals written by Anita Ganeri and published by In Focus. This book was released on 2018-01-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you measure an animal's intelligence? Can animals learn a language? Which animals use tools? In Focus: Intelligent Animals has the answers! In Focus is a cool, new information series that's perfect for curious kids. These fun books feature modern, magazine-style pages, including top 10 lists, fast facts, quickfire quizzes and more! With pages packed with vivid photography and fun facts, kids will have fun learning about the world around them! Each In Focus book features a contents page, glossary, and index.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics written by Tom L. Beauchamp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans encounter and use animals in a stunning number of ways. The nature of these animals and the justifiability or unjustifiabilitly of human uses of them are the subject matter of this volume. Philosophers have long been intrigued by animal minds and vegetarianism, but only around the last quarter of the twentieth century did a significant philosophical literature begin to be developed on both the scientific study of animals and the ethics of human uses of animals. This literature had a primary focus on discussion of animal psychology, the moral status of animals, the nature and significance of species, and a number of practical problems. This Oxford Handbook is designed to capture the nature of the questions as they stand today and to propose solutions to many of the major problems. Several chapters in this volume explore matters that have never previously been examined by philosophers. The authors of the thirty-five chapters come from a diverse set of philosophical interests in the History of Philosophy, the Philosophy of Mind, the Philosophy of Biology, the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, the Philosophy of Language, Ethical Theory, and Practical Ethics. They explore many theoretical issues about animal minds and an array of practical concerns about animal products, farm animals, hunting, circuses, zoos, the entertainment industry, safety-testing on animals, the status and moral significance of species, environmental ethics, the nature and significance of the minds of animals, and so on. They also investigate what the future may be expected to bring in the way of new scientific developments and new moral problems. This book of original essays is the most comprehensive single volume ever published on animal minds and the ethics of our use of animals.
Download or read book Quiz Yourself Clever Trees of the World written by and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the wonderful world of trees through fun quizzes! This amazing book welcomes you to the plant kingdom where you can meet more than 100 species of trees, ranging from the mighty Californian redwood to the ancient banyan tree. Stunning pictures and fast facts will allow you to grasp a wealth of knowledge in a fun way. Each tree is displayed in beautiful detail, surrounded by quiz-style questions. Turn the page to find the answers, contained in a handy dataset of essential information--size, location, and distinguishing features alongside close-up pictures of the bark, leaves, and fruit. You'll be recognizing sycamore from silver birch, aspen from ash, and peach from plum in no time. Discover the unique qualities of each tree, together with how it is used in art, industry, architecture, and science. You can use the book to test your own knowledge, or how about using it as the basis of a quiz with a friend? Quiz Yourself Clever! Trees of the World is packed with information on the world's most amazing trees--from those that feed us to others that drip poison--to make you an expert in no time!
Download or read book My First Quiz Picture Book of Animals written by Clever Publishing and published by Clever Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My First Quiz Picture Book of Animals pages are bursting with lively illustrations and first question and answer activities! The colorful pictures engage toddlers while prompting them to observe and answer corresponding questions. The large format features loads of pictures on every spread, encouraging little learners to explore the pages to discover animals and their habitat.
Download or read book Clever Dick s Animal Quiz Book written by Steve Bicknell and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clever Dick is the most popular boy in school. His friends can ask him anything and he always knows the answers.
Download or read book GATE 2024 Civil Engineering Topic wise Practice Questions written by R P Meena and published by MYUPSC. This book was released on with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GATE mock test for Civil Engineering is the best preparation tool to ace the GATE CE 2024 exam, which is scheduled to be held in the month of February 2024. The GATE exam is one of the foremost exams desired by every engineering graduate. Students who aspire to crack the GATE 2024 exam with an excellent score must practice these online GATE Civil test series. The GATE CE online mock test series rigidly follows the latest exam pattern to help you clear the concepts and score better in the exam. Practicing mock tests for GATE 2024 Civil Engineering will create an exact exam scenario that will help you reduce exam anxiety and boost your confidence to attain a good score. The GATE mock test will help you in developing a smart strategy and ensure you take the actual exam successfully, along with the overall benefits of taking a GATE CE mock test.
Download or read book Outrageous Animals written by Jeff Probst and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHALLENGE YOURSELF! A new nature-based trivia series with vibrant visuals and fascinating facts! Discover all sorts of amazing creatures in this colorful book about animals! New from Emmy-Award winning host of Survivor and New York Times bestselling author of Stranded, Jeff Probst comes a dynamic and graphic line of trivia books! Packed with full-color photos, fascinating facts and trivia, and great callouts from Jeff, this series is perfect for every kid looking to know the coolest, weirdest facts and trivia around!Challenge yourself to discover the world’s most amazing creatures! From black widow spiders to hammerhead sharks and everything in between, find out all the fascinating facts about animals that roam the land and sea.
Download or read book Go Quiz Yourself Around the World written by Izzi Howell and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about the things in our incredible world--landmarks, habitats and wildlife from the seven continents, dry deserts, huge oceans, mighty mountains, and much more. Then see if you can answer questions, such as: Which country is made up of over 6,000 islands? How many languages are spoken on Earth? What is the deadliest large land animal?
Download or read book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are written by Frans de Waal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work on animal intelligence destined to become a classic. What separates your mind from an animal’s? Maybe you think it’s your ability to design tools, your sense of self, or your grasp of past and future—all traits that have helped us define ourselves as the planet’s preeminent species. But in recent decades, these claims have eroded, or even been disproven outright, by a revolution in the study of animal cognition. Take the way octopuses use coconut shells as tools; elephants that classify humans by age, gender, and language; or Ayumu, the young male chimpanzee at Kyoto University whose flash memory puts that of humans to shame. Based on research involving crows, dolphins, parrots, sheep, wasps, bats, whales, and of course chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans de Waal explores both the scope and the depth of animal intelligence. He offers a firsthand account of how science has stood traditional behaviorism on its head by revealing how smart animals really are, and how we’ve underestimated their abilities for too long. People often assume a cognitive ladder, from lower to higher forms, with our own intelligence at the top. But what if it is more like a bush, with cognition taking different forms that are often incomparable to ours? Would you presume yourself dumber than a squirrel because you’re less adept at recalling the locations of hundreds of buried acorns? Or would you judge your perception of your surroundings as more sophisticated than that of a echolocating bat? De Waal reviews the rise and fall of the mechanistic view of animals and opens our minds to the idea that animal minds are far more intricate and complex than we have assumed. De Waal’s landmark work will convince you to rethink everything you thought you knew about animal—and human—intelligence.
Download or read book Get Smart A Multi Skill English Course Book for Class 2 written by Leena Kapoor and published by Goyal Brothers Prakashan. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In conformity with the objectives and recommendations of the latest National Curriculum Framework, we have developed Get Smart—A Multi-skill English Language Course comprising Coursebooks for Primers A and B and Primary Classes (Grades 1 to 5), and Workbooks and Literature Readers for Primary Classes (Grades 1 to 5). This series adopts an eclectic approach which keeps the child in the centre of learning and encourages teacher-student interaction as well as collaborative and experiential learning. This series follows the latest teaching-learning pedagogy and lays emphasis on the four language skills—listening, speaking, reading and writing—along with vocabulary and grammar. It combines the advantages of structural and communicative approaches. The universally accepted themes and language-learning activities have been blended for the progressive development of learning abilities, besides teaching life skills and values for the learner’s holistic development. Special Features of the Coursebooks • Themes include a wide range of universally-accepted prose and poetry. • Warm Up comprises a hands-on exercise or activity having direct relevance to the theme of the text. • Use Word Check tests whether the learners have understood the difficult words taught in the text. • Sum-up Text includes exercises covering textual questions that develop and test factual, inferential, evaluative and predictive understanding of the lesson. • Word Wise hones the pronunciation and vocabulary skills of the learners through a wide variety of topics. • Grammar Check consists of explanations and examples followed by exercises that not only help learners understand grammatical concepts but also apply them in various situations. • Listener’s Lap develops the listening skills of the learners through interesting texts, short poems, anecdotes, etc. along with the exercises based on these texts. • Speaking Track paves the way for the learners to participate in dialogue, role-play, choral speaking and other activities to enhance their communicative skills. • Pen Down includes different types of creative writing exercises used in everyday communication. • Finish Line at the end of every lesson, focuses on cooperative and collaborative activities that the learners may use in real-life situations Goyal Brothers Prakashan
Download or read book Animals Quiz written by Quizzzical Books and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting and fun quiz book to tackle solo, or challenge friends and family. 500 carefully crafted original questions and answers for quizzing connoisseurs. Suitable for adults and kids of high intellect. Hard questions! Hours of trivia gaming fun, perfect for dinner parties, family games nights, pub quizzes and holidays. Specially designed so the quiz master (person reading the questions) can also participate in the game (play along). The book is broken down in to 50 quizzes x 10 question bite size sections, with the answers easily accessible on the hidden reverse of each questions page. An easy to use, attractive and familiar game show style layout. The questions and answers for this quiz book are totally unique and creatively sourced. They are not compiled from online quiz databases, unlike other quiz books. So, enjoy brand new questions not duplicated elsewhere. With lot's of clever information, and plenty of "Oh, I didn't know that" moments, your certain to learn some interesting trivia along the way. A high difficulty level trivia quiz made for teaching, as-well as having fun!
