Author: Leon Gray
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1491469900
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
"Describes the different types of homes animals build in the wild"--
Engineering Animals
Author: Mark Denny
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060857
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
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.
Amazing Animal Engineers
Author: Leon Gray
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1491469900
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
"Describes the different types of homes animals build in the wild"--
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
ISBN: 1491469900
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
"Describes the different types of homes animals build in the wild"--
Animal Engineers
Author: Izzi Howell
Publisher: Astonishing Animals
ISBN: 9780778769309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Animals build structures to shelter their young, catch prey, and even communicate. Some animals even change their environment to suit their needs. This awesome book reveals the amazing ways that certain animals engineer structures and ecosystems in order to survive.
Publisher: Astonishing Animals
ISBN: 9780778769309
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Animals build structures to shelter their young, catch prey, and even communicate. Some animals even change their environment to suit their needs. This awesome book reveals the amazing ways that certain animals engineer structures and ecosystems in order to survive.
Animal Engineers (Library Bound Set Of 8)
Author: North Star Editions
Publisher: Focus Readers
ISBN: 9781635178555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Animal Engineers introduces readers to some of the animal kingdom's most amazing structures. Each book provides an in-depth look at how animals build and use the structure, as well as its effect on the surrounding environment.
Publisher: Focus Readers
ISBN: 9781635178555
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Animal Engineers introduces readers to some of the animal kingdom's most amazing structures. Each book provides an in-depth look at how animals build and use the structure, as well as its effect on the surrounding environment.
Engineers and Engineering
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Animal Engineering
Author: Donald Redfield Griffin
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Languages : en
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STEM Jobs with Animals
Author: Shirley Duke
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1627179348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
STEM jobs are careers for the future. STEM jobs meet needs people have. When you work in an animal related field, the STEM possibilities are endless. From the zookeeper who looks after the animals and maintains the daily operations of the zoo, a veterinarian who gives shots and performs surgery on injured animals, to the engineer who designs better cages or habitats for animals, all these wonderful careers and more are explained in this book. It also details the different degrees it takes to obtain these jobs and what each of these people do. This book will allow students to realize that small changes in one part of a system might cause large changes in another part.
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
ISBN: 1627179348
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
STEM jobs are careers for the future. STEM jobs meet needs people have. When you work in an animal related field, the STEM possibilities are endless. From the zookeeper who looks after the animals and maintains the daily operations of the zoo, a veterinarian who gives shots and performs surgery on injured animals, to the engineer who designs better cages or habitats for animals, all these wonderful careers and more are explained in this book. It also details the different degrees it takes to obtain these jobs and what each of these people do. This book will allow students to realize that small changes in one part of a system might cause large changes in another part.
U.S. Scientists and Engineers
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Engineers
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Animal Engineering
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Engineering
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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