Download or read book Why Are Orangutans Orange written by Mick O'Hare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun science and nature trivia with full-color photos in a “deeply fascinating and occasionally rib-tickling book” (Booklist). From the editor at New Scientist who brought us such works as How to Fossilize Your Hamster, this is an illustrated compendium of facts that reveal the beauty, complexity, and mystery of the world around us. Drawing on the magazine’s popular “Last Word” column, Why Are Orangutans Orange? covers everything from bubbles to bugs, as well as why tigers have stripes and blue-footed boobies have, well, blue feet. With over two million copies sold, this series of question-and-answer compendiums is a delight for anyone who loves to learn!
Download or read book Why Are Orangutans Orange written by Scientist New and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 'Last Word' collection featured, for the first time, 108 full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us. From ripples in glass to 'holograms' in ice, the natural world's wonders are unravelled by the magazine's knowledgeable readers. The book presents more resourceful, wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling science questions.
Download or read book Why Are Orangutans Orange written by New Scientist and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 'Last Word' collection featured, for the first time, 108 full-colour photographs showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the world around us. From ripples in glass to 'holograms' in ice, the natural world's wonders are unravelled by the magazine's knowledgeable readers. The book presents more resourceful, wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable range of baffling science questions.
Download or read book Why Are Orangutans Orange written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More popular science questions and answers from the distinguished Mick O?Hare?now illustrated in full color! Illustrated for the first time, with eighty full-color photographs?showing the beauty, complexity and mystery of the?world around us, here is the next eagerly awaited volume?of science questions and answers from Mick O?Hare and?his team at New Scientist. From ripples in glass to "holograms"?in ice, the natural world?s wonders are unraveled?by the magazine?s knowledgeable readers. Six years since?its debut, this magnificent series still rides high in the international?bestseller lists, with well over two million copies?sold. Popular science has never been more absorbing or?more enjoyable. For the first time in full color, this latest collection of resourceful,?wry and well-informed answers to a remarkable?range of baffling science questions is guaranteed to impress?and delight.
Download or read book Orange Orangutan written by Mister Figg and published by Mister Figg. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After school, a child sees an orange orangutan doing something that is odd. He goes to find out the reason for the orangutan’s actions and ends up in a walk to discover why other animals are also doing things that they don’t normally do. Join in and find the answer. Picture book that is illustrated in FULL COLOR. For ages 4 and up.
Download or read book Orange Animals written by Christina Leaf and published by Bellwether Media. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orange you glad monarchs have such bright wings? They warn predators of the butterflies’ terrible taste. Orangutans are orange to blend in with tree trunks. Male rufous hummingbirds show off with their vivid feathers. Early readers will learn about all kinds of orange animals in this descriptive book!
Download or read book Save the Orangutan written by Sarah Eason and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the orangutan's physical appearance, where they live, what they eat, how they survive, how they raise their babies, and explains why they are endangered and what can be done to help.
Download or read book Face to Face with Orangutans written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the orangutan of Borneo in its natural habitat, including information on the threats that now face this incredible primate.
Download or read book Tiny Fingers and Fuzzy Orange Hair Orangutan written by Ellen Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on what life is like for a baby orangutan, including where she and her mother live, what they eat, and when the baby will be old enough to live on her own.
Download or read book Orangutanka written by Margarita Engle and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the other orangutans settle down for a nap, one orangutan longs to dance the day away. Join her as she seeks the perfect dance partner in a story told through tanka poems, a form of ancient Japanese poetry. 40pp., Color Ill.
Download or read book Orangutans written by Meish Goldish and published by Bearport Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how orangutans use their intelligence to find food and stay safe.
Download or read book Orangutans written by Ruth Owen and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about orangutans and how they demonstrate intelligence by using tools, finding food, using plants for medicine, and imitating humans.
Download or read book Orang utan Biology written by Jeffrey H. Schwartz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collective works on the orang-utan, from the broader evolutionary perspective to the details of what makes this animal not just unique among humanoids, but distinctive among primates in general.
Download or read book Environmental ScienceBites written by Kylienne A. Clark and published by The Ohio State University. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written by undergraduate students at The Ohio State University (OSU) who were enrolled in the class Introduction to Environmental Science. The chapters describe some of Earth's major environmental challenges and discuss ways that humans are using cutting-edge science and engineering to provide sustainable solutions to these problems. Topics are as diverse as the students, who represent virtually every department, school and college at OSU. The environmental issue that is described in each chapter is particularly important to the author, who hopes that their story will serve as inspiration to protect Earth for all life.
Download or read book Rescued written by Eliot Schrefer and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer comes an unbelievable story of survival. Raja has been raised in captivity. Not behind the bars of a zoo, but within the confines of an American home. He was stolen when he was young to be someone's pet. Now he's grown up . . . and is about to be sent away again, to a place from which there will be no return. John grew up with Raja. The orangutan was his friend, his brother -- never his pet. But when John's parents split up and he moved across the country, he left Raja behind. Now Raja is suffering.There's one last chance to save Raja -- a chance that will force John to confront his fractured family and the captivity he's imposed on himself all of these years.Eliot Schrefer's last two novels, Endangered and Threatened, were both finalists for the National Book Award. With Rescued, he brings his remarkable storytelling to the American landscape, giving us a boy who must redefine his own humanity and an orangutan who will need his help in order to return home.
Download or read book Orangutans written by Anne E. Russon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition: "A fascinating firsthand account of the behavior and intelligence of orangutans, Russon's book is also an account of the successes, failures, and politics of orangutan rehabilitation in the forests of Borneo and Sumatra... The book is lavishly illustrated with full color photographs." - Choice The only great apes found in Asia, these arboreal wizards are by nature elusive and solitary, and inhabit nearly inaccessible tropical rainforests. The tragedy is that orangutans are almost extinct, surviving in the wild only on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra where human influx is rapidly appropriating their habitat. Based on fifteen years of research, this extraordinary and definitive book focuses on orangutan intelligence and behavior. This book includes: A scientific history of orangutans Detailed descriptions of orangutans and their natural habitat Astonishing behavior patterns Rehabilitation operations at Camp Leakey and Wanariset The complex politics of orangutan rescue work Results of orangutans released back into the forest Updated resources What the future holds for these primates. With one hundred color photographs taken by the author during her visits to the rainforests, Orangutans is an absorbing and instructive look at the unusual world of orangutans.
Download or read book Orangutan written by David Orme and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to orangutans and the reasons that their numbers have been declining.
