Author : Miriam Coleman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 1900-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 147772883X
Most people think of small insects fluttering harmlessly around lights when they think of moths. However, there are some moths with a sinister secret. They use their barbed tongues to poke animals in the eyes and drink their tears. Different species like different animals’ tears, such as elephants or birds. Readers will discover all sorts of disgusting facts about moths. You will never look at a moth the same way again!
Author : Matt Walker
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780749951535
The first professionally researched miscellany guide to the animal kingdom, packed with fascinating and bizarre facts_ Did you know that the male flour beetle is the only animal which can mate and impregnate a female he has never met?_ That virgin male butterflies make better lovers than more experienced ones?_ Or that rats can learn the difference between Dutch and Japanese?Why Do Moths Drink Elephants' Tears? is an entertaining and addictive collection of eclectic insights and unusual facts, detailing the wondrous diversity of animal life that surrounds us.
Author : Tamara J. Resler
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Science
ISBN : 1426338724
"Detailed information about many different types of animals, for children"--
Author : Hazel Davies
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 18,34 MB
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0813545072
How fast do butterflies fly? Does a butterfly have ears? Do they sleep? Does a caterpillar have a skeleton? How does a moth get out of its cocoon? What is the difference between a butterfly and a moth? And just what is a skipper? Every year, thousands of people visit butterfly conservatories to stand in quiet awe of the simple beauty displayed by these magical creatures. Hazel Davies and Carol A. Butler capture the sense of wonderment and curiosity experienced by adults and children alike in this book about butterflies and their taxonomic cousins, the moths and the skippers. Beautifully illustrated with color and black and white photographs, and drawings by renowned artist William Howe, this book is an essential resource for parents, teachers, students, or anyone who has ever been entranced by these fascinating, fluttering creatures. Covering everything from their basic biology to their complex behaviors at every stage of life to issues in butterfly conservation, Davies and Butler explore wide-ranging topics and supply a trove of intriguing facts. You'll find tips on how to attract more butterflies to your garden, how to photograph them, and even how to raise them in your own home. Arranged in a question and answer format, the book provides detailed information written in an accessible style that brings to life the science and natural history of these insects. In addition, sidebars throughout the book detail an assortment of butterfly trivia, while extensive appendices direct you to organizations, web sites, and more than 200 indoor and outdoor public exhibits, where you can learn more or connect with other lepidopterophiles (butterfly lovers).
Author : Patrick Perish
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1681035103
Moths are like the butterflies of the night. Their scale-covered wings carry them from plant to plant in search of sweet nectar. ThereÕs a lot to learn about these dark-winged insects in this fact-filled book for beginning readers!
Author : Tiel Aisha Ansari
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 17,18 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0615183948
KNOCKING FROM INSIDE, BY TIEL AISHA ANSARI, is the journey of the human soul towards the Divine approached through a number of doorways: sorrow, the natural world, and the listening heart. We travel through both real and illusionary lands to (re)join the Beloved at the end of all paths. "When Tiel says 'God' she means it, in all her various ways and fresh poetic stratagems, in these poems in which there are many strata, and in this book which contains many gems." - Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Author : Matt Walker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 11,81 MB
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1429985941
"If you are interested in transvestite garter snakes, the speed-eating habits of the star-nosed mole, or how geckos behave in zero gravity, you will enjoy Fish That Fake Orgasms." ---The Times (UK) Packed with fascinating, bizarre, amazing, and hilarious entries, Fish That Fake Orgasms takes you on a guided tour of the diverse natural life that surrounds us. It covers eating and drinking, playing and preying, carousing and canoodling---and much more: • Why do some Japanese quail prefer to mate with weaker males of the species? • What animal has a heart that glows green when it beats? • Of all the carnivores, which has the strongest bite? • What creature performs better sexually when there's another male nearby? • What type of bird has a divorce rate of only 8 percent? • Which has a bigger brain: a lion in the wild or a lion in captivity? • What animal pretends it has food in order to lure females into its abode? Fish That Fake Orgasms is the first professionally researched miscellany of the animal kingdom. An entertaining and addictive collection, it will satisfy anyone entranced by the wondrous world of animals. And speaking of satisfaction, the female brown trout does, in fact, fake it. It's a trick it uses to find the most potent mate!
Author : Zane Cerpina
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262047403
More than sixty speculative art and design projects explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. In the Age of the Anthropocene—an era characterized by human-caused climate disaster—catastrophes and dystopias loom. The Anthropocene Cookbook takes our planetary state of emergency as an opportunity to seize the moment to imagine constructive change and new ideas. How can we survive in an age of constant environmental crises? How can we thrive? The Anthropocene Cookbook answers these questions by presenting a series of investigative art and design projects that explore how art, food, and creative thinking can prepare us for future catastrophes. This cookbook of ideas rethinks our eating habits and traditions, challenges our food taboos, and proposes new recipes for humanity’s survival. These more than sixty projects propose new ways to think and make food, offering tools for creative action rather than traditional recipes. They imagine modifying the human body to digest cellulose, turning plastic into food, tasting smog, extracting spices and medicines from sewage, and growing meat in the lab. They investigate provocative possibilities: What if we made cheese using human bacteria, enabled human photosynthesis through symbiosis with algae, and brought back extinct species in order to eat them? The projects are diverse in their creative approaches and their agendas—multilayered, multifaceted, hybrid, and cross-pollinated. The Anthropocene Cookbook offers a survival guide for a future gone rogue, a road map to our edible futures.
Author : Julia Garstecki
Publisher : Young Voyageur
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0760363463
Sniff, Lick & Scratch! is the book parents and educators will turn to to explain the less majestic behaviors witnessed in the animal kingdom—and sneak in a little STEM learning while they're at it. Do flies really puke on our food when we’re not looking? And why do dogs sniff each other’s behinds? The companion book to Pick, Spit & Scratch answers these and many of the other most pressing questions young readers have about the animal kingdom—specifically, do animals really do all those nasty things we hear about, and why? As with the disgusting habits of humans, there’s a bit of science behind the strange things that animals do. Each spread describes a specific naughty-by-nature habit and provides multilayered reading opportunities in the form of one or two weird, disgusting facts that ratchet up the gross factor by connecting animal habits with relatable concepts. In many cases, the author even debunks commonly held myths about the animal habits described and, in the process, shows that these animal habits, though disgusting to us humans, are really matters of evolution and survival. Have a question about a specific icky animal behavior? A glossary and index make Sniff, Lick & Scratch a great reference. Kids will get a thrill out of exclaiming "Eww!" as they read this book. Parents will love that their children are reading and engaged in scientific inquiry.
Author : Matt Brown
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1849946744
A humorous and informative book, debunking a range of commonly held myths about animals. Camels store water in their humps and magpies love to steal shiny objects. Or do they? A must-read in the Everything you Know series, this book debunks a range of old-cod stories about animals in author Matt Brown's inimitable humorous and fascinating style. Covering everything from the myth that lemmings throw themselves off cliffs in suicide (they don't, but on occasion some just fall off) to the one about bats being blind (they're not, and they can see but use the more sophisticated echolocation for certain hunting). From head in the sand ostriches to cats landing on their feet, a wealth of information on our beloved pets to creepy crawlies and wild giants, this book will set the marvel of the animal word straight. Plus, there are special features on the odd diets of animals and how wrongly they are portrayed in the movies. All the old stories and myths about animals we've had since childhood are gleefully debunked in a hugely entertaining book.
