Author: Gabby Dawnay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849766531
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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A beautiful new paperback edition of this classic story. A Possum's Tail follows Samuel Drew and histoy dog as they make their way to visit the possums at London Zoo.
Author: James Edward Connolly
Publisher: International Design Library
ISBN: 9780880450690
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Fourteen tales collected from eight Indian tribes of eastern and western North America, featuring animals and nature lore.
Author: Cheyenne Cisco
Publisher: Pearson Scott Foresman
ISBN: 9780673613073
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Little Possum's curiosity gets the better of him and he ignores his mother's advice.
Author: Willliam J. Krause
Publisher: William Krause
ISBN: 097859990X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 87
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Author: Cathy Goonack
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781921248160
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Passed down from generation to generation by the Kandiwal Aboriginal community, this engaging story explains how the scaly-tailed possum got its scaly tail and how the echidna—one of Australia’s most unusual mammals—got its spikes. Vividly illustrated by Kandiwal children, this traditional tale is not only entertaining but also educational as it provides photographs and descriptions of these two iconic Australian animals.
Author: Thomas L. Montague
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A comprehensive text that draws together accumulated knowledge on an introduced species that once promised New Zealand a fur trade, but now costs a small fortune to manage. The information within this book will be useful to anyone interested in brushtail possums, from students and those with an academic interest, to those involved with wildlife.
Author: James E. Connolly
Publisher: International Design Library
ISBN: 9780880451079
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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This title is suitable for children of ages 4-8. It includes thirteen tales of nature collected from eight Indian tribes of Eastern and Western North America.
Author: Coleen Salley
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547546688
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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Epossumondas has a very important question: "Mama, why don't I have hair on my tail?" And wouldn't you know it, Mama can tell him exactly why possum tails are all pink and naked and funny looking. Her story's a doozy! It goes way back to Epossumondas's great-great-grandpa, Papapossum. When hungry Papapossum and his growly ol' stomach meet up with wily Hare, cranky Bear, and a persimmon tree . . . well, it's one hair-raisin' adventure! Renowned storyteller Coleen Salley and Caldecott Honor illustrator Janet Stevens team up again, drawing on the Uncle Remus tradition and their own wild imaginations to expose a hilarious--and important!--moment in possum history.
Author: Robert S. Voss
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421439786
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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The definitive volume on opossums, a group of ecologically and scientifically important mammals, covering natural history, evolution, behavior, and biogeography. Opossums are the most diverse and ecologically important group of New World marsupials, although only the Virginia opossum is familiar to North American residents. In fact, many species of opossums are found in Neotropical rainforests, savannas, and other habitats, where they are key participants in food webs and other ecological relationships. One species, the short-tail opossum (Monodelphis domestica), has recently become a model organism for biomedical researchers. Eclipsed in the public imagination by their Australian relatives, opossums remained for many years a somewhat obscure group, of interest primarily to taxonomists and students of mammalian reproduction. While thousands of scientific articles have appeared in recent years on opossum systematics, morphology, behavior, physiology, genetics, and ecology, this important but widely scattered literature has never been effectively summarized—until now. In Opossums, the first book-length treatment of these fascinating organisms, recognized authorities Robert S. Voss and Sharon A. Jansa synthesize a wide range of available information about the diversity, comparative biology, and natural history of the opossum. Peering into every biological facet of the lives of these long-neglected mammals, the volume includes • introductory chapters explaining the paleontological and biogeographic context for opossum evolution • an overview of the extant fauna, which includes over 100 species in 18 genera • a section devoted to opossum phenotypes: morphology, physiology, and behavior • detailed information on opossum natural history, including habitats, diets, predators, and parasites • in-depth and novel interpretations of opossums' adaptive radiation in a phylogenetic context Intended for undergraduate biology majors, graduate students, and research professionals, this coherent and original portrait of opossums will be of particular interest to mammalogists, evolutionary biologists, and Neotropical field biologists as well as biomedical researchers working with Monodelphis domestica as a model organism.
Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152005726
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Two Australian possums go in search of the magic that will make the invisible one of them visible.
