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Books in Animal Scientists series

  • Amazing Animal Super-Sleuths

    Leon Gray

    Paperback (Raintree, July 14, 2016)
    Finding prey and detecting predators are life-or-death matters for animals. They use some technologically advanced systems including the senses we're familiar with-and others that are far more sensitive. The book explains how bats use echolocation to hunt on the wing, tells how sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood from hundreds of yards away, and how supersensitive hairs on a spider's body can pick up vibrations in the air.
  • Amazing Animal Engineers

    Leon Gray

    Paperback (Raintree, July 14, 2016)
    Animals build an incredible array of structures in which to sleep, raise young, or catch prey. Some structures involve excavating in subsoil or wood, others involve construction underwater, and some are fixed to trees. Polar bears dig out caves in the snow to protect themselves from the coldest weather. Spiders spin webs of incredibly strong silk to ensnare prey. Prairie dogs dig underground 'towns' that can house hundreds of families.
  • Animal Scientists Pack A of 5

    Leon Gray

    Hardcover (Raintree, )
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  • Deadly! The Truth About The Most Dangerous Creatures On Earth

    Nicola Davies, Neal Layton

    Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 25, 2015)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Lions and scorpions and lethal little jellyfish, oh my! Kids will sink their teeth into this fascinating look at nature's fiercest creatures. Sometimes nature can be nasty: snakes that spit poison, insects with exploding bottoms, and tigers that have you for dinner. Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures are equipped with lethal weapons, from finger-length fangs to toxic tentacles, and have ingenious ways of killing one another - poisoning, dive-bombing, strangling, and even electrocuting! Discover the murderous methods of attack and defense that make animals armed, dangerous, and deadly.
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  • Amazing Animal Shape-Shifters

    Leon Gray

    Paperback (Raintree, Aug. 11, 2016)
    Some animals, including frogs and dragonflies, change their body to live in different environments. Others, such as chameleons, change color to blend into the background to hide from predators. Still more change their shape dramatically to attract a mate-for example, the beautiful displays of birds of paradise.