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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Learn about some of the most endangered animals in the world and the continents tat they live on. This series uses eye-catching imagery, informative diagrams and fascinating facts to bring key subject areas to life. It explores the reasons why some species are endangered and the steps that are being taken to ensure these species do not become extinct in the future.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Equal parts nature guide, adventure story, and coffee table book!
People are captivated by wild animals-by their strength and their size and by the things they do to stay alive. In Wildlife Spectacles zoologist Vladimir Dinets dives deep into this wonder, allowing curious readers to discover just how spectacular wild animals can be. In the rich, fully illustrated pages you'll discover the migration of gray whales along the Pacific coast,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
From one of the finest nature writers at work in America today-a lyrical, dramatic, illuminating tour of the hidden domain of wild animals.
Whether recalling the experience of being chased through the Grand Canyon by a bighorn sheep, swimming with sharks off the coast of British Columbia, watching a peregrine falcon perform acrobatic stunts at 200 miles per hour, or engaging in a tense face-off with a mountain lion near a desert waterhole, Craig...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This book takes a unique stance on a controversial topic: zoos. Zoos have their ardent supporters and their vocal detractors. And while we all have opinions on what zoos do, few people consider how they do it. Irus Braverman draws on more than seventy interviews conducted with zoo managers and administrators, as well as animal activists, to offer a glimpse into the otherwise unknown complexities of zooland. Zooland begins and ends with the story of...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A deep-time history of how humans engaged wildlife in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, a cowboy discovered bones from an extinct giant bison near Folsom, New Mexico. When archeologists found handmade weapons embedded in the fossils, the discovery vastly expanded our continent's known human history, but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens have presented to their fellow animals....
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An illustrated guide to identifying plants, animals, and constellations in North America"--
From its mountains to its ocean shores, from its wetlands to its deserts, North America teams with flora and fauna in delicately balanced ecosystems found nowhere else on Earth. The Nature Study Guild invites you to see the natural world in all its intricacy and intense beauty. We cannot hope to protect something without first understanding it, and this guide...
16) Curious critters
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A variety of animals common to North America pose for portraits against a white background while narrating distinctive aspects of their natural histories.
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