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Author | : Robin Page |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2005-05-30 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547349149 |
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Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.
Author | : Dr. David E. Alexander |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199996776 |
Download On the Wing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats."--Book jacket.
Author | : Gabrielle Balkan |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-09-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780714875125 |
Download Book of Bones Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It's a book of world records... of bones! Guess whose bones are the longest, shortest, heaviest, spikiest, and more. With touchable skeletons! An International Literacy Association Teachers' Choice Title (2018) A Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Title (2019) Ten record-breaking animal bones are introduced through a series of superlatives set up as a guessing game with clues. Readers examine animals' skeletons and guess to whom they belong; the answers are revealed in vibrant, full-color scenic habitats, with easily understood — and humorous — explanations. This entertaining introduction to the connection between animal bones (anatomy) and behavior is playful, relatable, and includes touch-and-feel finishes that bring the bones to life!
Author | : Colin Burgess |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2007-07-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0387496785 |
Download Animals in Space Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is as a detailed, but highly readable and balanced account of the history of animal space flights carried out by all nations, but principally the United States and the Soviet Union. It explores the ways in which animal high-altitude and space flight research impacted on space flight biomedicine and technology, and how the results - both successful and disappointing - allowed human beings to then undertake that same hazardous journey with far greater understanding and confidence. This complete and authoritative book will undoubtedly become the ultimate authority on animal space flights.
Author | : Thom van Dooren |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2014-06-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0231537441 |
Download Flight Ways Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A leading figure in the emerging field of extinction studies, Thom van Dooren puts philosophy into conversation with the natural sciences and his ethnographic encounters to vivify the cultural and ethical significance of modern-day extinctions. Unlike other meditations on the subject, Flight Ways incorporates the particularities of real animals and their worlds, drawing philosophers, natural scientists, and general readers into the experience of living among and losing biodiversity. Each chapter of Flight Ways focuses on a different species or group of birds: North Pacific albatrosses, Indian vultures, an endangered colony of penguins in Australia, Hawaiian crows, and the iconic whooping cranes of North America. Written in eloquent and moving prose, the book takes stock of what is lost when a life form disappears from the world—the wide-ranging ramifications that ripple out to implicate a number of human and more-than-human others. Van Dooren intimately explores what life is like for those who must live on the edge of extinction, balanced between life and oblivion, taking care of their young and grieving their dead. He bolsters his studies with real-life accounts from scientists and local communities at the forefront of these developments. No longer abstract entities with Latin names, these species become fully realized characters enmeshed in complex and precarious ways of life, sparking our sense of curiosity, concern, and accountability toward others in a rapidly changing world.
Author | : Peter Brown |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2009-10-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316088714 |
Download Flight of the Dodo Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When Penguin gets pooped on by a flying goose, he doesn't just get angry--he decides to do something about it. Penguin and his flightless friends set out to build a flying machine that will give them the bird's eye view they've never had in this picture book. Illustrations.
Author | : Allan Janus |
Publisher | : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781593730482 |
Download Animals Aloft Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the visual history and annecdotal story of the mascots, pets, companions and best friends that have made up a whole side of air history retrieved from legendary archives of the National Air & Space Museum.
Author | : David E. Alexander |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2004-11-17 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780801880599 |
Download Nature's Flyers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Nature's Flyers' is a detailed account of the current scientific understanding of the primary aspects of flight in nature. The author explains the physical basis of flight, drawing upon bats, birds, insects, pterosaurs and even winged seeds.
Author | : Sneed B. Collard |
Publisher | : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2017-03-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0884485390 |
Download Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals (How Nature Works) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
*Junior Library Guild Selection 2017* Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. North America’s flying squirrels and Australia’s sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders—or is that evolution in another guise? Fountas & Pinnell Level R
Author | : A. J. Veldmeijer |
Publisher | : Sidestone Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9088900930 |
Download Pterosaurs Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pterosaurs or flying reptiles were the first vertebrates to evolve flight. These distant relatives of modern reptiles and dinosaurs lived from the Late Triassic (over 200 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous (about 65 million years ago) a span of some 135 million years. When they became extinct, no relatives survived them and as a result these prehistoric animals cannot readily be compared with our modern-day fauna. So what do we know of these highly succsessful animals? The present summary answers this and many more questions based on the most recent results of modern scientific research. After a short introduction to palaeontology as a science and its history related to pterosaurs, it explains what pterosaurs were, when and where they lived, and what they looked like. Topics such as disease, injury and reproduction are also discussed. Separated from this text are 'Mark explains' boxes. Each of these explanations puts one specific species in the spotlight and focuses on its lifestyle. They show how diverse pterosaurs were, from small insectivorous animals with a wingspan of nearly 40 centimetres to the biggest flying animals ever to take to the air, with wingspans of over 10 metres and with a way of life comparable to modern-day storks. The text is illustrated with many full colour photographs and beautiful palaeo-art prepared by experts in the field.