Author: John F. Prevost
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781562394929
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes different kinds of dolphins and discusses how they live and what can be done to save them from extinction.
Freshwater Dolphins
Author: John F. Prevost
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781562394929
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes different kinds of dolphins and discusses how they live and what can be done to save them from extinction.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781562394929
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Describes different kinds of dolphins and discusses how they live and what can be done to save them from extinction.
Freshwater Dolphins
Author: Megan M. Gunderson
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781616134136
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Journey beyond the blue into the wonderful world of the endangered freshwater dolphin! Full-color photos bring readers face to face with this agile mammal. A labeled diagram and a chapter on size, shape, and color help readers identify the strange-looking freshwater dolphin from beak to flukes. Students will also discover how this sly hunter uses clicks and whistles to communicate with others and a melon to navigate haphazard river channels. With so much to explore, readers will dream of a chance to encounter a rare freshwater dolphin! A facts page, bolded glossary terms, and an index supplement the easy-to-read chapter text. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 9781616134136
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Journey beyond the blue into the wonderful world of the endangered freshwater dolphin! Full-color photos bring readers face to face with this agile mammal. A labeled diagram and a chapter on size, shape, and color help readers identify the strange-looking freshwater dolphin from beak to flukes. Students will also discover how this sly hunter uses clicks and whistles to communicate with others and a melon to navigate haphazard river channels. With so much to explore, readers will dream of a chance to encounter a rare freshwater dolphin! A facts page, bolded glossary terms, and an index supplement the easy-to-read chapter text. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
Journey of the Pink Dolphins
Author: Sy Montgomery
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603581758
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
By the acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig. When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the littleknown pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with their flexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locally called, you must also know the people who live among them. And so in Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Montgomery—part naturalist, part poet, part Indiana Jones—winds her way through watery tributaries and riverside villages, searching for botos and hearing the tales of locals who believe these ethereal dolphins are shape-shifters—creatures that emerge from the water as splendidly dressed men or women only to enchant their human onlookers, capture their souls, and then carry them away to the Encante, an underwater world. Montgomery takes readers on four separate journeys, exploring the river-dwelling dolphins’ natural history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unraveling their prehistoric roots, and visiting with shamans who delve into the Encante.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603581758
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
By the acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig. When Sy Montgomery ventured into the Amazon to unlock the mysteries of the littleknown pink dolphins, she found ancient whales that plied the Amazon River at dawn and dusk, swam through treetops in flooded forests, and performed underwater ballets with their flexible bodies. But she soon found out that to know the botos, as the dolphins are locally called, you must also know the people who live among them. And so in Journey of the Pink Dolphins, Montgomery—part naturalist, part poet, part Indiana Jones—winds her way through watery tributaries and riverside villages, searching for botos and hearing the tales of locals who believe these ethereal dolphins are shape-shifters—creatures that emerge from the water as splendidly dressed men or women only to enchant their human onlookers, capture their souls, and then carry them away to the Encante, an underwater world. Montgomery takes readers on four separate journeys, exploring the river-dwelling dolphins’ natural history, chronicling their conservation pressures, unraveling their prehistoric roots, and visiting with shamans who delve into the Encante.
Dolphins
Author: Kevin J. Holmes
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560655749
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Provides an introduction to dolphins, covering their physical characteristics, habits, prey, and relationship to humans.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781560655749
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Provides an introduction to dolphins, covering their physical characteristics, habits, prey, and relationship to humans.
Chinese River Dolphins
Author: Kristin Petrie
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1599280388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Chinese river dolphin.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1599280388
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Chinese river dolphin.
Amazon River Dolphins
Author: Kristin Petrie
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617847585
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Amazon river dolphin.
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN: 1617847585
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Amazon river dolphin.
Dolphins
Author: Alan Griffin
Publisher: New School Media
ISBN: 1936825031
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, range, habitat and conservation status of dolphins. Each book is full of factual information, color photographs as well as a glossary and links to conservation organization organizations.
Publisher: New School Media
ISBN: 1936825031
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, range, habitat and conservation status of dolphins. Each book is full of factual information, color photographs as well as a glossary and links to conservation organization organizations.
Ganges River Dolphins
Author: Kristin Petrie
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1599280396
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Ganges river dolphin.
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1599280396
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Introduces characteristics, habitat, and behaviors of the Ganges river dolphin.
Freshwater Biodiversity in Asia
Author: Maurice Kottelat
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821338087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337. Draws on household survey data from 87 rural villages in Bangladesh to examine the contribution that government family planning programs, as well as other health care interventions, have made toward the recent reduction in fertility by increasing contraceptive use and reducing infant mortality. The paper suggests that the programs have been effective and finds that targeted credit program placement, such as the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), contributed to the effort as well.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821338087
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 337. Draws on household survey data from 87 rural villages in Bangladesh to examine the contribution that government family planning programs, as well as other health care interventions, have made toward the recent reduction in fertility by increasing contraceptive use and reducing infant mortality. The paper suggests that the programs have been effective and finds that targeted credit program placement, such as the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), contributed to the effort as well.
Tropical Conservation
Author: A. Alonso Aguirre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199766983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities is intended to be a key resource on the biodiversity conservation crisis in the tropics and subtropics for university professors, university students, researchers, practitioners in grassroots local community organizations, technical staff of non-profit conservation and development organizations, wildlife managers and other technicians in the resource extraction industries, government and policy makers. This book provides unique exposure to the experiences of Latin American, Asian and African conservation scientists working on the ground.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199766983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Tropical Conservation: Perspectives on Local and Global Priorities is intended to be a key resource on the biodiversity conservation crisis in the tropics and subtropics for university professors, university students, researchers, practitioners in grassroots local community organizations, technical staff of non-profit conservation and development organizations, wildlife managers and other technicians in the resource extraction industries, government and policy makers. This book provides unique exposure to the experiences of Latin American, Asian and African conservation scientists working on the ground.