Provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, various types, life cycle, and habitat of manatees, endangered marine animals that can live up to sixty years.
Excerpts about animals from the writings of William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Ernest Thompson Seton, and John Muir are included in the text, accompanying photographs of carvivores ranging from a half-ton polar bear to a two-ounce weasel
Provides an introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, habitat, and young of groundhogs, rodents that may hibernate for four months during the winter.
Library Binding
(Silver Burdett Pr, April 1, 1979)
Illustrates the many ways in which animals protect themselves from predators, discussing animal camouflage and concealment, bluffs and threats, group defense, flight, and fighting and including excerpts from exemplary animal stories