Book Description
Describes the environment in which pikas, small, little known mammals, live and follows their lives through a series of seasons.
Author : Robert Thomas Orr
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Mammals
ISBN :
Describes the environment in which pikas, small, little known mammals, live and follows their lives through a series of seasons.
Author : Tannis Bill
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 2010
Category : American pika
ISBN : 9781590788035
The pika survives where life is rocky. A male pika scurries across a stone pile high in the mountains. He nips leafy twigs off bushes and piles them in the shelter of a rocky den. This hamster-size cousin of the rabbit builds a hay pile as big as a bathtub. In the winter, he feeds on his hay pile, tunnels through the snow for lichens, and pops out for low-growing plants. The story of how the pika avoids predators, survives the cold, and sings for a mate will enthrall young readers. Tannis Bill's simple text makes the true story of the pika accessible to all. Jim Jacobson's stunning photographs capture the pika in the act of living naturally.
Author : Molly Woodward
Publisher : Heyday Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781597143363
An animal that very few people have seen in the wild has taken center stage in climate change studies because their mountain habitats are shrinking.
Author : Joe Hutto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1629141178
Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers. Hutto’s job is to find out why. For months at a time, he follows the bighorn herds, meets mountain lions and bears, weathers injury and storms, and beautifully observes the incredible splendor of the Rocky Mountains. Hutto has a deep connection to Wyoming, having managed a large cattle ranch in his past. He weaves Wyoming’s history of the cowboy, mountain ecology, and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative. Ultimately, he discovers that the lambs are dying of cystic fibrosis due to selenium deficiency, which is caused by acid rain—a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution. Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale, and a new voice, eloquently expressing the urgency that we mend our ways.
Author : Arthur Holmes Howell
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Lagomorpha
ISBN :
Discusses distribution, habitat, habits, pelage, molt, specimens, history, and nomenclature of pikas. Provides descriptions, locations, and a key for species and subspecies.
Author : Pika Nani
Publisher :
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 33,39 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : India
ISBN : 9789350463543
Short stories about 15 of the states of India are preceded by a few interesting facts about the states.
Author : Nancy S. Hill
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1414320140
Presents fun facts and trivia including how a pearl forms and the origin of safety glass, connecting them to Christian life using passages from the Bible.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1914 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1982-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0688012973
August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m. Hiroshima. Japan A little girl and her parents are eating breakfast, and then it happened. HIROSHIMA NO PIKA. This book is dedicated to the fervent hope the Flash will never happen again, anywhere.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 17,52 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Travel
ISBN :