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Author: Charles C. Hofer Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 166390619X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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With big eyes and ears and colorful bodies, a lot of creatures in nature look very cute. But don't be fooled by their adorable appearance. When provoked, these animals can easily injure or kill a person. Their defense mechanisms like poison and sharp teeth and claws can turn them from darling to deadly. Get ready to discover some of the world's cutest killers.
Author: Charles C. Hofer Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 166390619X Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
Book Description
With big eyes and ears and colorful bodies, a lot of creatures in nature look very cute. But don't be fooled by their adorable appearance. When provoked, these animals can easily injure or kill a person. Their defense mechanisms like poison and sharp teeth and claws can turn them from darling to deadly. Get ready to discover some of the world's cutest killers.
Author: Nadia Higgins Publisher: Lerner Publications ISBN: 1467710245 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Imagine a creature that would gnaw on the tail of a crocodile or crush a seal's skull with its razor-sharp teeth. Are you picturing a grizzly or other tough-looking critter? If so, you're wrong! The animals that do these things are none other than adorable otters and fluffy polar bears! Many adorable animals can actually be pretty vicious. Find out which cuties are killers and see how they take down their prey.
Author: Karen McGhee Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP ISBN: 1538274612 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 34
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All over the world, there are animals that use their venom, claws, jaws, and more to take down prey. From ambush killers like crocodiles to lions who stalk and pounce to kill their prey, this book has it all. Up-close photographs of deadly animals readers likely would never see in person, like the terrifying Brazilian wandering spider, accompany detailed facts about how dangerous each animal is as well as their size, body adaptations, and habitat. The relative danger to people is covered, particularly for animals, like hippos, that are known to harm many people.
Author: Megan Cooley Peterson Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1666355240 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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Gorgeous eyelashes. Flashy feathers. Silky hair. You'll see the animals in this book are far from drab and dull. Outstanding photos combined with high-interest text perfectly supports reluctant or struggling readers.
Author: Teresa Klepinger Publisher: Capstone ISBN: 1669078116 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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When an animal's life is on the line, sometimes its best option is to pretend to be something it's not. From posing as poop to gluing dead bodies to their backs, check out some impressive ways that animals hide in order to survive.
Author: Rebecca E. Hirsch Publisher: Lerner Publications ™ ISBN: 1541509226 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 33
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Find out what a platypus has in common with a beaver or a dolphin. Learn what sets a platypus apart from a giraffe or a wild dog. Readers will compare key traits of platypuses—their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle—to traits of other mammals. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions about what makes this animal a mammal and how mammals are alike and different from each other.
Author: Publisher: DK Children ISBN: 9781465450876 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Get up close and personal with some of the world's most dangerous animals in Ultimate Sticker Book: Deadly Animals. Did you know the most poisonous animal in the world is the tiny golden dart frog? Or that the alligator snapping turtle's tongue looks like a worm to lure prey into its mouth? Or that scorpions skitter across the desert, hunting for food with its pincers and stinging tail? Hunt with lions, polar bears, wolves, and sharks to see how they take down their prey. Learn about the deadliest predators' environments, diets, and habits, and discover amazing facts in this action-packed sticker book. Filled with information, activities, and more than 250 reusable stickers, Ultimate Sticker Book: Deadly Animals is a great catch for young readers. Taking subjects that kids love, from dinosaurs to baby animals to transportation, DK's Ultimate Sticker Book series is being refreshed and updated and now features more than 250 fun, reusable stickers. Packed with activities that allow children to create scenes, match pairs, and complete jigsaws, the activities throughout each book are simple enough for the child to do independently, but engaging enough to keep their interest and help develop dexterity, making these books products parents can trust, and ones that kids will want to keep picking up to learn more about their favorite subjects.
Author: Christie Wilcox Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 0374712212 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 219
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A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry From the coasts of Indonesia to the rainforests of Peru, venomous animals are everywhere—and often lurking out of sight. Humans have feared them for centuries, long considering them the assassins and pariahs of the natural world. Now, in Venomous, the biologist Christie Wilcox investigates and illuminates the animals of our nightmares, arguing that they hold the keys to a deeper understanding of evolution, adaptation, and immunity. She reveals just how venoms function and what they do to the human body. With Wilcox as our guide, we encounter a jellyfish with tentacles covered in stinging cells that can kill humans in minutes; a two-inch caterpillar with toxic bristles that trigger hemorrhaging; and a stunning blue-ringed octopus capable of inducing total paralysis. How do these animals go about their deadly work? How did they develop such intricate, potent toxins? Wilcox takes us around the world and down to the cellular level to find out. Throughout her journey, Wilcox meets the intrepid scientists who risk their lives studying these lethal beasts, as well as “self-immunizers” who deliberately expose themselves to snakebites. Along the way, she puts her own life on the line, narrowly avoiding being envenomated herself. Drawing on her own research, Wilcox explains how venom scientists are untangling the mechanisms of some of our most devastating diseases, and reports on pharmacologists who are already exploiting venoms to produce lifesaving drugs. We discover that venomous creatures are in fact keystone species that play crucial roles in their ecosystems and ours—and for this alone, they ought to be protected and appreciated. Thrilling and surprising at every turn, Venomous will change everything you thought you knew about the planet’s most dangerous animals.
Author: Michael Taussig Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022651627X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 267
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“It is the contemporary elixir from which all manner of being emerges, the metamorphic sublime, an alchemist’s dream.” So begins Palma Africana, the latest attempt by anthropologist Michael Taussig to make sense of the contemporary moment. But to what elixir does he refer? Palm oil. Saturating everything from potato chips to nail polish, palm oil has made its way into half of the packaged goods in our supermarkets. By 2020, world production will be double what it was in 2000. In Colombia, palm oil plantations are covering over one-time cornucopias of animal, bird, and plant life. Over time, they threaten indigenous livelihoods and give rise to abusive labor conditions and major human rights violations. The list of entwined horrors—climatic, biological, social—is long. But Taussig takes no comfort in our usual labels: “habitat loss,” “human rights abuses,” “climate change.” The shock of these words has passed; nowadays it is all a blur. Hence, Taussig’s keen attention to words and writing throughout this work. He takes cues from precursors’ ruminations: Roland Barthes’s suggestion that trees form an alphabet in which the palm tree is the loveliest; William Burroughs’s retort to critics that for him words are alive like animals and don’t like to be kept in pages—cut them and the words are let free. Steeped in a lifetime of philosophical and ethnographic exploration, Palma Africana undercuts the banality of the destruction taking place all around us and offers a penetrating vision of the global condition. Richly illustrated and written with experimental verve, this book is Taussig’s Tristes Tropiques for the twenty-first century.
Author: Charles C. Hofer
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