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Eat or Be Eaten: Extreme Food Chains
Louise Spilsbury
Paperback (Gareth Stevens Pub, Jan. 1, 2015)Everything about a sea lions body developed to make it a better hunter. Its aerodynamic shape, strong flippers, and ability to close its nostrils to remain underwater longer all contribute to this deep-sea predator. What are they hunting for? A lobster dinner! With detailed examples and full-color photographs, this volume takes on an important curriculum conceptfood chainsin an engaging, fun way. Readers discover some of the violent, strange, and extraordinary eating of animals in habitats all around the world.
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Eat or Be Eaten: Extreme Food Chains
Louise Spilsbury
Library Binding (Gareth Stevens Pub, Jan. 1, 2015)Introduces predators and their prey, discussing the extremes they go to eat or protect themselves, including the spiny lobster's ability to drop one of its claws, walking legs, or antennae if a predator grabs it.
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Eat or Be Eaten: Extreme Food Chains
Louise Spilsbury
Paperback (Gareth Stevens Pub, Jan. 1, 2015)Everything about a sea lions body developed to make it a better hunter. Its aerodynamic shape, strong flippers, and ability to close its nostrils to remain underwater longer all contribute to this deep-sea predator. What are they hunting for? A lobster dinner! With detailed examples and full-color photographs, this volume takes on an important curriculum conceptfood chainsin an engaging, fun way. Readers discover some of the violent, strange, and extraordinary eating of animals in habitats all around the world.
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Extreme Food Chains
Louise Spilsbury
Hardcover (Franklin Watts, April 28, 2016)What are the deadliest food chains on Earth and what animals and plants belong to them? Find out in Extreme Food Chains and take an up-close look at the lethal world of predators and prey. From life in the oceans and rainforests to the extreme environments of the Arctic and deserts, discover the world's top predators. Find out how they hunt and what they eat, and learn how their prey in turn eats other organisms for food. Explore the links in nature's most savage food chains!The Savage Nature series explores life science and life on Earth at its most extreme, from the fight for survival from birth to death through to the way that organisms have adapted to survive in extreme habitats. The series offers high-interest, engaging information, fascinating fact boxes and an in-depth exploration of the most exciting aspects of life science. A high-interest look at the natural world for children aged 9+.
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