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Amazing Animal Tool-Users and Tool-Makers
Leon Gray
Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)Many types of animals use tools to find food, build a home, and defend themselves. Chimps use sticks to get grubs from small holes or honey from beehives. Sea otters crack open clams on rocks. Tailorbirds ‘stitch’ their nests with spider silk, while bowerbirds collect bright objects to decorate their nests.
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What's Eating You?
Nicola Davies
Paperback (Walker Books Ltd, Aug. 16, 2001)Whats Eating You
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Talk, Talk, Squawk! A Human's Guide To Animal Communication
Nicola Davies, Neal Layton
Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 25, 2015)FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The creators of Poop: A Natural History Of The Unmentionable present a lighthearted celebration of the creative ways animals communicate, explaining how various creatures use messaging methods ranging from colors and smells to vibrations and electricity.
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Animal Scientists
Leon Gray
Paperback (Capstone Press, )None
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Amazing Animal Shape-Shifters
Leon Gray
Library Binding (Capstone Press, Aug. 1, 2015)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.
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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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