Author: Caitlind L. Alexander
Publisher: Learning Island
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Zebras are striped horses that live on the plains of Africa. How much do you know about them? Do you know: How do you tell how old a zebra is? What is a zebra’s favorite food? Do zebras eat meat? Who leads the herd when there is danger and they have to run? Find out what a zebra looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts. Ages 7 - 10 Reading Level 3.8 All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Zebras: Striped Horses of Africa
Author: Caitlind L. Alexander
Publisher: Learning Island
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Zebras are striped horses that live on the plains of Africa. How much do you know about them? Do you know: How do you tell how old a zebra is? What is a zebra’s favorite food? Do zebras eat meat? Who leads the herd when there is danger and they have to run? Find out what a zebra looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts. Ages 7 - 10 Reading Level 3.8 All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Publisher: Learning Island
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Zebras are striped horses that live on the plains of Africa. How much do you know about them? Do you know: How do you tell how old a zebra is? What is a zebra’s favorite food? Do zebras eat meat? Who leads the herd when there is danger and they have to run? Find out what a zebra looks like, where it lives, what it eats, what eats it, how babies are born, and other fun facts. Ages 7 - 10 Reading Level 3.8 All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Zebra Stripes
Author: Timothy M. Caro
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641101X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022641101X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.
Wild Equids
Author: Jason I. Ransom
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419106
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The first expert synthesis of the diverse studies conducted on wild equids worldwide. Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence conservation and management efforts. This book, spearheaded by Jason I. Ransom and Petra Kaczensky, brings together the world's leading experts on equid ecology, management, and conservation to provide a synthesis of what is known about these iconic species and what needs to be done to prevent losing some of them altogether. The most comprehensive conservation book on wild equids in decades, this title will enlighten not only equid researchers, but also mammalogists, conservationists, and equine professionals. Readers will find new insight into the lives of the world's horses, zebras, and asses, understand the basis of our relationships with these animals, and develop a greater understanding of where equids come from and why they are worth conserving. Included in this book are detailed, state-of-the-science syntheses on Social structure, behavior, and cognition Habitat and diet Ecological niches Population dynamics Roles of humans in horse distribution through time Human dimensions and the meaning of wild Management of free-roaming horses Captive breeding of wild equids Conservation of wild equids Conservation of migrations Reintroductions Genetics and paleogenetics
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419106
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The first expert synthesis of the diverse studies conducted on wild equids worldwide. Wild horses, zebras, asses, and feral equines exhibit intriguing and complex social structures that captivate the human imagination and elicit a wide range of emotions that influence conservation and management efforts. This book, spearheaded by Jason I. Ransom and Petra Kaczensky, brings together the world's leading experts on equid ecology, management, and conservation to provide a synthesis of what is known about these iconic species and what needs to be done to prevent losing some of them altogether. The most comprehensive conservation book on wild equids in decades, this title will enlighten not only equid researchers, but also mammalogists, conservationists, and equine professionals. Readers will find new insight into the lives of the world's horses, zebras, and asses, understand the basis of our relationships with these animals, and develop a greater understanding of where equids come from and why they are worth conserving. Included in this book are detailed, state-of-the-science syntheses on Social structure, behavior, and cognition Habitat and diet Ecological niches Population dynamics Roles of humans in horse distribution through time Human dimensions and the meaning of wild Management of free-roaming horses Captive breeding of wild equids Conservation of wild equids Conservation of migrations Reintroductions Genetics and paleogenetics
Zebras
Author: M. Martin
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519615121
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Zebras are well known for their black and white stripes. But did you know that no two zebras' stripes are the same? There are 3 kinds of zebras known in the African jungles and each of them have peculiar stripe designs on their bodies. Read this book to learn more about the types of stripes that each of these zebra families have, and how these stripes actually help them in their survival. In this book you will learn many wonderful and amazing facts about the zebra. You will learn more about their habits, what they eat, how they sleep, how they communicate with each other and how they protect themselves from predators. How do zebras take care of their young? What is a zebra harem and a zebra herd? Why is it that zebras migrate to other lands with other animals? Why do they groom each other? These questions and more will be answered in this book. In this book you will also find more than 20 colorful photos of the zebra in its habitat. These photos will help small children understand the life of a zebra better.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519615121
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Zebras are well known for their black and white stripes. But did you know that no two zebras' stripes are the same? There are 3 kinds of zebras known in the African jungles and each of them have peculiar stripe designs on their bodies. Read this book to learn more about the types of stripes that each of these zebra families have, and how these stripes actually help them in their survival. In this book you will learn many wonderful and amazing facts about the zebra. You will learn more about their habits, what they eat, how they sleep, how they communicate with each other and how they protect themselves from predators. How do zebras take care of their young? What is a zebra harem and a zebra herd? Why is it that zebras migrate to other lands with other animals? Why do they groom each other? These questions and more will be answered in this book. In this book you will also find more than 20 colorful photos of the zebra in its habitat. These photos will help small children understand the life of a zebra better.
The Zebra's Stripes and Other African Animal Tales
Author:
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 9781868729517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traditional tales retold engagingly and complemented with lively illustrations and fun facts about African animals.
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 9781868729517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traditional tales retold engagingly and complemented with lively illustrations and fun facts about African animals.
Zebras
Author: Catherine Ipcizade
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429648856
Category : Zebras
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Discusses the characteristics and habits of zebras.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1429648856
Category : Zebras
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Discusses the characteristics and habits of zebras.
Equids--zebras, Asses, and Horses
Author: Patricia Des Roses Moehlman
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831706474
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The new Equid Action Plan provides current knowledge on the biology, ecology and conservation status of wild zebras, asses, and horses. It specifies what information is lacking, and prioritizes needed conservation actions. The Action Plan also provides chapters on equid taxonomy, genetics, reproductive biology, and population dynamics. These chapters highlight unsolved issues of taxonomy and genetics. They also provide information and insight into the special demographic and genetic challenges of managing small populations. The chapter on disease provides a review of documented equine disease and epidemiology and focuses on priorities for equid conservation health. The final chapter deals with the importance of developing an assessment methodology that explicitly considers the role of equids in ecosystems and the ecological processes that are necessary for ecosystem viability. The approach of combining ecological field studies and ecosystem modeling should prove useful for the scientific management and conservation of wild equids worldwide. These chapters provide research and conservation practitioners with new information and paradigms.
Publisher: IUCN
ISBN: 9782831706474
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The new Equid Action Plan provides current knowledge on the biology, ecology and conservation status of wild zebras, asses, and horses. It specifies what information is lacking, and prioritizes needed conservation actions. The Action Plan also provides chapters on equid taxonomy, genetics, reproductive biology, and population dynamics. These chapters highlight unsolved issues of taxonomy and genetics. They also provide information and insight into the special demographic and genetic challenges of managing small populations. The chapter on disease provides a review of documented equine disease and epidemiology and focuses on priorities for equid conservation health. The final chapter deals with the importance of developing an assessment methodology that explicitly considers the role of equids in ecosystems and the ecological processes that are necessary for ecosystem viability. The approach of combining ecological field studies and ecosystem modeling should prove useful for the scientific management and conservation of wild equids worldwide. These chapters provide research and conservation practitioners with new information and paradigms.
Why Evolution is True
Author: Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019164384X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019164384X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.
The World's War
Author: David Olusoga
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781858969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1781858969
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.
The Zebra Storyteller
Author: Spencer Holst
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Fiction. "Holst has long been treasured in the underground New York literary scene. His impish delivery is filled with a childlike delight in tale-spinning, and yet his work is recognized for its inscrutable mysteries. Containing every story Holst has ever written, nearly a third of them never before published, this collection should establish Holst's reputation among a wider public. If there is a single aesthetic preoccupation in these tales, it is with storytelling itself. In the title piece, a Siamese cat speaks Zebraic,' bewitching zebras so that he is able to kill them, until he meets the zebra storyteller who has already imagined a Siamese cat speaking Zebraic. This allows him to kill the cat, and that is the function of the storyteller,' Holst concludes. Such postmodern concerns, however, do not become boorish. Above all, Holst seeks to entertain, not lecture; imagination and language receive no especial privilege here, but humor always does. In The Language of Cats,' at the end of one rather long and unsuccessful attempt to describe a confused state of mind, the narrator resorts to: imagine how the world would appear to a person after finishing such a ridiculously lengthy, pointless sentence.' Such authorial winks give a hint of what it is like to be in the presence of this master of the told tale"--Publisher's Weekly.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Fiction. "Holst has long been treasured in the underground New York literary scene. His impish delivery is filled with a childlike delight in tale-spinning, and yet his work is recognized for its inscrutable mysteries. Containing every story Holst has ever written, nearly a third of them never before published, this collection should establish Holst's reputation among a wider public. If there is a single aesthetic preoccupation in these tales, it is with storytelling itself. In the title piece, a Siamese cat speaks Zebraic,' bewitching zebras so that he is able to kill them, until he meets the zebra storyteller who has already imagined a Siamese cat speaking Zebraic. This allows him to kill the cat, and that is the function of the storyteller,' Holst concludes. Such postmodern concerns, however, do not become boorish. Above all, Holst seeks to entertain, not lecture; imagination and language receive no especial privilege here, but humor always does. In The Language of Cats,' at the end of one rather long and unsuccessful attempt to describe a confused state of mind, the narrator resorts to: imagine how the world would appear to a person after finishing such a ridiculously lengthy, pointless sentence.' Such authorial winks give a hint of what it is like to be in the presence of this master of the told tale"--Publisher's Weekly.