Author: Mary Holland
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9781607184478
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An introduction to different types of animal ears.

Author: Kirsten Hall
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836848021
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Discusses the ways that different animals experience their sense of hearing.

Author: Pamela Hickman
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN: 1550744259
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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"Stunning illustrations combined with fascinating facts reveal the ways animals sense their environment. Easy experiments show kids how to compare animal senses to their own" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

Author: Mark Denny
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The alarm calls of birds make them difficult for predators to locate, while the howl of wolves and the croak of bullfrogs are designed to carry across long distances. From an engineer's perspective, how do such specialized adaptations among living things really work? And how does physics constrain evolution, channeling it in particular directions? Writing with wit and a richly informed sense of wonder, Denny and McFadzean offer an expert look at animals as works of engineering, each exquisitely adapted to a specific manner of survival, whether that means spinning webs or flying across continents or hunting in the dark-or writing books. This particular book, containing more than a hundred illustrations, conveys clearly, for engineers and nonengineers alike, the physical principles underlying animal structure and behavior. Pigeons, for instance-when understood as marvels of engineering-are flying remote sensors: they have wideband acoustical receivers, hi-res optics, magnetic sensing, and celestial navigation. Albatrosses expend little energy while traveling across vast southern oceans, by exploiting a technique known to glider pilots as dynamic soaring. Among insects, one species of fly can locate the source of a sound precisely, even though the fly itself is much smaller than the wavelength of the sound it hears. And that big-brained, upright Great Ape? Evolution has equipped us to figure out an important fact about the natural world: that there is more to life than engineering, but no life at all without it.

Author: Ann Fienup-Riordan
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 1602234124
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Lifeways in Southwest Alaska today remains inextricably bound to the seasonal cycles of sea and land. Community members continue to hunt, fish, and make products from the life found in the rivers and sea. Based on a wealth of oral histories collected over decades of research, this book explores the ancestral relationship between Yup’ik people and the natural world of Southwest Alaska. Nunakun-gguq Ciutengqertut studies the overlapping lives of the Yup’ik with native plants, animals, and birds, and traces how these relationships transform as more Yup’ik people relocate to urban areas and with the changing environment. The book is presented in bilingual format, with facing-page translations, and will be hailed as a milestone work in the anthropological study of contemporary Alaska.

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Publisher: Lotje Everywhere
ISBN: 9781605372525
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A colorful search-and-count book that will provide hours of fun. For curious kids ages 3 and up.

Author: Sandra Markle
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545859271
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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If you could have any animal's ears, whose would you choose? What if you woke up one morning and your ears weren't yours? What If You Had Animal Ears explores what would happen if you looked in the mirror and saw an animal's ears instead of your own! The next imaginative book in the What If You Had series, explores incredible ears from the animal kingdom. From the elephant's tremendous ears to the jack rabbit's mood ears, discover what it would be like if you had these special ears--and find out why your ears are just the right ones for you!

Author: Anne Miranda
Publisher: Time Life Medical
ISBN: 9780783545004
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Illustrations and rhyming help the reader to guess what animal comes next by the sound it makes.

Author: Kirsten Hall
Publisher: Gareth Stevens
ISBN: 9780836848038
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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How animals see.

Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 150264200X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Animals rely on their sense of hearing to locate predators, find food, and sense danger. This book explores a variety of animal ears and describes how they work and how they help animals hear. From the super-sharp hearing of an owl to grasshoppers that hear through their legs, this book is full of fascinating facts that capture the reader's attention while providing scientific information and offering an opportunity to compare animal hearing to the readers' own. Photographs, diagrams, and maps add to the learning and make this book even more appealing for young learners.