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81) The Racc Pack: 1
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Racc Pack volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Meet the Bin family, a trio of raccoons in the risky business of dumpster diving for all their needs. With Dusty's brains, ReRe's muscle, and Scraps's gadgets (please don't tell him he's almost definitely an opossum), the Binses are determined to leave no garbage bin unturned in their pursuit of the tastiest, most delicious trash they can find. When the family discovers a new upscale grocery store that's throwing away their perfectly good food at...
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English
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Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current
information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and
empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral
biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich
source of ideas about other taxa.
"A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of
non-human primates."-Alan Dixson, Nature
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English
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This book focuses the discussion on vertebrate animals. How do you differentiate vertebrates from invertebrates? What characteristics set them apart? Study groups of vertebrates such as mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Explore the wonderful world of the backboned animals. Grab a copy, read and grow your knowledge beginning today.
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English
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Kodiak Island, nicknamed the Emerald Isle, gleams like a gem in the North Pacific. Lush green mountains soar skyward from the ocean, framing deep, fjord-like bays. The island's wet maritime climate and mild temperatures encourage thick vegetation growth, which provides sustenance for the abundant wildlife on the island. The Alaska Current flows northward near Kodiak, bringing warm water and nutrients to Alaska's frigid Gulf. These nutrients form the...
Author
Publisher
KoLibri
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
Zhiva�i�a legenda i vedushchi�i dokumental�nogo seriala o diko�i prirode "Planeta Zeml�i�a" na Bi-bi-si s�er D�evid Attenboro rasskazyvaet istori�i�u svoe�i kar�ery televedushchego i naturalista, na zare kotoro�i emu predostavilas� unikal�na�i�a vozmozhnost� -puteshestvovat� po miru v poiskakh redkikh zhivotnykh dl�i�a kollek�t�sii Londonskogo zooparka i snimat� �ekspedi�t�si�i�u dl�i�a...
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English
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"A photo-filled trove of tips for seeing more birds wherever you look, from crowd favorites (hummingbirds, owls, eagles) to species you've never spotted before"-- Provided by publisher.
Seeing more birds is possible-- whether you're on the go or in your own neighborhood. Wolf says it all comes down to how you tune in to the show happening around you: birds are highly skilled at staying under the radar. Here she shares her best tactics, explains bird...
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A firsthand exploration of the extraordinary abilities and surprising, sometimes life-saving talents of "working dogs"-pups who can sniff out drugs, find explosives, even locate the dead-as told through the experiences of a journalist and her intrepid canine companion, which The New York Times calls "a fascinating, deeply reported journey into the...amazing things dogs can do with their noses."
There are thousands of working dogs all over the US...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this fascinating book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Horse, Wendy Williams explores the lives of one of the world's most resilient creatures--the butterfly--shedding light on the role that they play in our ecosystem and in our human lives"--
From butterfly gardens to zoo exhibitions, we've encouraged them to infiltrate our lives. Williams reveals the inner lives of these 'flying flowers' and shows that butterflies are far more...
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English
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"The gray wolf has made an astonishing comeback in Washington. After near complete eradication in the 1990s, conservationists and environmentalists have cheered this native species' robust return to the state over the last two decades. Washington ranchers are not so joyous. Each year, wolves kill some amount of livestock and ranchers view their livelihood as under attack. As the state seeks to manage its wolf population, a central conflict emerges-conservationists...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"For most of us, the only thing we know about flies is that they're annoying, and our usual reaction is to try to kill them. In Super Fly, the myth-busting biologist Jonathan Balcombe shows the order Diptera in all of its diversity, illustrating the essential role that flies play in every ecosystem in the world as pollinators, waste-disposers, predators, and food source; and how flies continue to reshape our understanding of evolution. Along the way,...
99) Wild Moms
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English
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Being a mom is a tough job-but imagine doing it in the jungle or out on the safari, faced by the ravages of the elements, a scarcity of resources, and the threat of predators prowling at all times of the day and night. In Wild Moms, Dr. Carin Bondar takes readers on an enthralling tour of the animal kingdom as she explores the phenomenon of motherhood in the wild. A journey through motherhood for the animal kingdom-from the initial phases of gestation...
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English
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Cheney and Seyfarth enter the minds of vervet monkeys and other primates to explore the nature of primate intelligence and the evolution of cognition.
"This reviewer had to be restrained from stopping people in the street to urge them to read it: They would learn something of the way science is done, something about how monkeys see their world, and something about themselves, the mental models they inhabit."-Roger Lewin, Washington Post Book World
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