365 Animal Tales

365 Animal Tales PDF Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 8187107529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Book Description
A fascinating little story for every day of the year! Read about all kinds of animals - lions, horses, jackals, bears, monkeys, rabbits and even tiny honey bees and ants. These delightful tales of animals and their friends make for an enjoyable story reading session

365 Animal Tales

365 Animal Tales PDF Author: Om Books Editorial Team
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 8187107529
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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Book Description
A fascinating little story for every day of the year! Read about all kinds of animals - lions, horses, jackals, bears, monkeys, rabbits and even tiny honey bees and ants. These delightful tales of animals and their friends make for an enjoyable story reading session

The Tiger and The Woodpecker

The Tiger and The Woodpecker PDF Author: C. R. Sharma
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha
ISBN: 8189999923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Stories adapted from the medieval Telugu poet Manchana's work Kēyūrabāhucaritamu.

The brahman and the goat

The brahman and the goat PDF Author: Shyamala Kutty
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN: 8184820410
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Three cunning men vex a Brahmin into throwing away a goat carried by him, by calling the animal as a calf, a dog and a donkey. An elephant heeds the request of mice not to trample them and is gratefully freed by them when trapped later. A sage turns a mouse into a girl. When she is grown up and asked to choose a groom, she rejects the sun, cloud, wind and mountain one by one and settles upon the mouse as the mightiest. This Panchatantra collection is a treasure house of a variety of such stories. A collection of tales compiled by Vishnu Sharma, for his young students some 2,200 years ago, the Panchatantra is still correcting common human weakness with its wry humor.

Tales from the Woodpecker Tree

Tales from the Woodpecker Tree PDF Author: Lesley Rawlinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781975602109
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Inside this book you will find: a cheeky woodpecker, a greedy cat, a very smelly garden gnome and a toy tiger who wants to be a rock star!Along with a host of other characters, you will find them in seven exciting and amusing stories for young children.It's time to peep through the branches of the Woodpecker Tree and see what you can find...

Ancient Tales of Wit and Wisdom

Ancient Tales of Wit and Wisdom PDF Author: Anant Pai
Publisher: Amar Chitra Katha
ISBN: 8189999192
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Book Description
Collection of the following titles: A Bag of Gold Coin, Choice of Friends, How Friends are Parted, Tiger and the Woodpecker, Friends and Foes.

Tiger And The Woodpecker

Tiger And The Woodpecker PDF Author: Editor: Anant Pai Author: C. R. Sharma & Kamala Chandrakant Illustrator: Ashok Dongre
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788175080300
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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This title has stories from the Keyurabahu Charitramu by the distinguished Telugu poet Manchana.

The Grail Bird

The Grail Bird PDF Author: Tim Gallagher
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 1328859118
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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“The Grail Bird is an enjoyable read . . . A powerful call for conservation, and an exciting bird adventure” (The Boston Globe). What is it about the ivory-billed woodpecker? Why does this ghost of the southern swamps arouse such an obsessive level of passion in its devotees, who range from respected researchers to the flakiest Loch Ness monster fanatics and Elvis chasers? Since the early twentieth century, scientists have been trying their best to prove that the ivory-bill is extinct. But every time they think they’ve finally closed the door, the bird makes an unexpected appearance. To unravel the mystery, author Tim Gallagher heads south, deep into the eerie swamps and bayous of the vast Mississippi Delta, searching for people who claim to have seen this rarest of birds and following up—sometimes more than thirty years after the fact—on their sightings. What follows is his own Eureka moment with his buddy Bobby Harrison, a true son of the South from Alabama. A huge woodpecker flies in front of their canoe, and they both cry out, “Ivory-bill!” This sighting—the first time since 1944 that two qualified observers positively identify an ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States—quickly leads to the largest search ever launched to find a rare bird, as researchers fan out across the bayou, hoping to document the existence of this most iconic of birds. “The Grail Bird is less an ecological study than a portrait of human obsession.” —The New York Times

101 Jungle Stories

101 Jungle Stories PDF Author: Om Books EditorialTeam
Publisher: Om Books International
ISBN: 938006957X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Book Description
101 Jungle Stories Are all about animals and their antics. There are shrewd sharks, bossy buffaloes, talkative tortoises, daring deer, clever cats, rowdy rats and... many more playful animals to entertain the young readers. The stories tell you how to live together peacefully, while having a good time! The lively illustrations add to the excitement of the stories. A great book to add to your collection.

Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn

Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn PDF Author: Richard Ellis
Publisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1597269530
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen years in this state. Rhinos are being illegally poached for their horns, as are tigers for their bones, thought to improve virility. Booming economies and growing wealth in parts of Asia are increasing demand for these precious medicinals. Already endangered species are being sacrificed for temporary treatments for nausea and erectile dysfunction. Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost experts in wildlife extinction, brings his alarm to the pages of Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn, in the hope that through an exposure of this drug trade, something can be done to save the animals most direly threatened. Trade in animal parts for traditional Chinese medicine is a leading cause of species endangerment in Asia, and poaching is increasing at an alarming rate. Most of traditional Chinese medicine relies on herbs and other plants, and is not a cause for concern. Ellis illuminates those aspects of traditional medicine, but as wildlife habitats are shrinking for the hunted large species, the situation is becoming ever more critical. One hundred years ago, there were probably 100,000 tigers in India, South China, Sumatra, Bali, Java, and the Russian Far East. The South Chinese, Caspian, Balinese, and Javan species are extinct. There are now fewer than 5,000 tigers in all of India, and the numbers are dropping fast. There are five species of rhinoceros--three in Asia and two in Africa--and all have been hunted to near extinction so their horns can be ground into powder, not for aphrodisiacs, as commonly thought, but for ailments ranging from arthritis to depression. In 1930, there were 80,000 black rhinos in Africa. Now there are fewer than 2,500. Tigers, bears, and rhinos are not the only animals pursued for the sake of alleviating human ills--the list includes musk deer, sharks, saiga antelope, seahorses, porcupines, monkeys, beavers, and sea lions--but the dwindling numbers of those rare species call us to attention. Ellis tells us what has been done successfully, and contemplates what can and must be done to save these animals or, sadly, our children will witness the extinction of tigers, rhinos, and moon bears in their lifetime.

Birdology

Birdology PDF Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0731815408
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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Meet the ladies: a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite neighbors, devise different ways to hide from foxes, and mob the author like she's a rock star. In these pages you'll also meet Maya and Zuni, two orphaned baby hummingbirds who hatched from eggs the size of navy beans, and who are little more than air bubbles fringed with feathers. Their lives hang precariously in the balance-but with human help, they may one day conquer the sky. Snowball is a cockatoo whose dance video went viral on YouTube and who's now teaching schoolchildren how to dance. You'll meet Harris's hawks named Fire and Smoke. And you'll come to know and love a host of other avian characters who will change your mind forever about who birds really are. Each of these birds shows a different and utterly surprising aspect of what makes a bird a bird-and these are the lessons of Birdology: that birds are far stranger, more wondrous, and at the same time more like us than we might have dared to imagine. In Birdology, beloved author of The Good Good Pig Sy Montgomery explores the essence of the otherworldly creatures we see every day. By way of her adventures with seven birds-wild, tame, exotic, and common-she weaves new scientific insights and narrative to reveal seven kernels of bird wisdom. The first lesson of Birdology is that, no matter how common they are, Birds Are Individuals, as each of Montgomery's distinctive Ladies clearly shows. In the leech-infested rain forest of Queensland, you'll come face to face with a cassowary-a 150-pound, man-tall, flightless bird with a helmet of bone on its head and a slashing razor-like toenail with which it (occasionally) eviscerates people-proof that Birds Are Dinosaurs. You'll learn from hawks that Birds Are Fierce; from pigeons, how Birds Find Their Way Home; from parrots, what it means that Birds Can Talk; and from 50,000 crows who moved into a small city's downtown, that Birds Are Everywhere. They are the winged aliens who surround us. Birdology explains just how very "other" birds are: Their hearts look like those of crocodiles. They are covered with modified scales, which are called feathers. Their bones are hollow. Their bodies are permeated with extensive air sacs. They have no hands. They give birth to eggs. Yet despite birds' and humans' disparate evolutionary paths, we share emotional and intellectual abilities that allow us to communicate and even form deep bonds. When we begin to comprehend who birds really are, we deepen our capacity to approach, understand, and love these otherworldly creatures. And this, ultimately, is the priceless lesson of Birdology: it communicates a heartfelt fascination and awe for birds and restores our connection to these complex, mysterious fellow creatures