Get the Scoop on Animal Poop


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Discusses animal droppings and their uses, importance, and meaning.




Get the Scoop on Animal Poop!


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With fun facts and amazing photos, describes how animals use their poop to trick predators and prey, send messages, feed themselves and their offspring, build homes, mark their territories, and more.




Get the Scoop on Animal Poop


Book Description

Discusses animal droppings and their uses, importance, and meaning.




Get the Scoop on Animal Poop


Book Description

Full of laugh-out-loud gross facts about the animal kingdom's smelliest subject! Poop gets a bad rap, but it’s really very cool and useful. Animals use poop in many different ways: to trick predators and prey, send messages, feed themselves and their babies, build homes, mark their territories, and more. Young readers will discover why rabbits, hamsters, pigs and gorillas eat their own feces (gross!), why some ground-nesting birds circle their eggs with poop, and how caterpillars can build umbrellas made of poop to hide under. Perfect for young zoologists and fans of infotainment.







Get the Scoop on Animal Puke!


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Budding scientists and animal behaviorists: get ready to be grossed out! Following in the footsteps of the bestselling Get the Scoop on Animal Poop!, Get the Scoop on Animal Puke offers hours of learning about the natural world. Animal vomit serves many purposes in the natural world: it can scare and distract predators, feed family and neighbors, protect animals from poisoning (they can’t call 911), aid with digestion, and so much more. Fun facts and cool photos will delight young scientists. Maybe puke isn't so gross after all!




Whose Poop Is That?


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Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Poop! Ewwww! No, don’t say “Ewwww.” Ask, “Whose poop is that?” This simple, and yes, charming book asks this question about seven examples of animal poop. By investigating visual clues, young readers can learn to identify the animal through its droppings. For instance, find a sample of poop with bits of bone and tufts of hair. Turn the page to learn it came from a fox! Kelsey Oseid’s illustrations are both accurate and beautiful. Backmatter includes further information about the poop and what scientists can learn from an animal’s droppings. From the Hardcover edition.




New York's Poop Scoop Law


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The story of how New York City adopted laws to force pet owners to clean up after their pets. Michael Brandow shows how a combination of science and politics, fact and fear, altruism and self-interest led to the adoption and enforcement of legislation that became a shining - and perhaps surprising - success.




Dog Poop or Fox Poop?


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Animal scat, or poop, can tell an observer not only what kind of animal created it but also what it has been eating. Animal experts pride themselves on identifying stool samples. With this fascinating book, readers can become scat experts as they learn to distinguish dog droppings from fox droppings. They'll learn important points about each animal's behaviors and other essential adaptations, supporting valuable concepts in the elementary science curriculum.




Dung for Dinner


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Discover the stomach-churning truth about the animal poop, pee, vomit, and secretions that humans have eaten throughout history—and sometimes still do—in Christine Virnig's laugh-out-loud middle-grade nonfiction debut. Dung for Dinner is illustrated by Korwin Briggs. From Roman charioteers scarfing wild boar dung to astronauts guzzling their own pee to today's kids spreading insect vomit on their toast, this humorous compendium is chock-full of history, science, and fascinatingly gross facts. Bug secretions coating your candy corn? Rodent poop in your popcorn? Physicians tasting their patients' pee? It’s deliciously disgusting! *SCBWI Golden Kite Award Finalist for Older Nonfiction