Author : Alison Cree
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,87 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927145449
"This is the first detailed monograph for decades about this enigmatic reptile, and the first to be illustrated in colour throughout. The evolution, natural history and conservation of tutara are covered in comprehensive detail ..." -- Back cover.
Author : Dick Lutz
Publisher : DIMI PRESS
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780931625435
"The tuatara is an ancient reptile still existing in New Zealand. It is one of the four Orders of the Class Reptilia. The others are: crocodiles and alligators, turtles and tortoises, lizards and snakes. Thus, it is unique in the reptile world. This book is a detailed description of the characteristics and habits of this animal. In addition, it describes the relationship between the tuatara and the Maori (the indigenous people) and the rest of New Zealand. Zoo history and suggestions for zoo handling are also covered along with information about the New Zealand government's excellent steps to protect this unusual animal. It closes with a review of research, present and future. The book contain black & white and color photographs, a glossary, bibliography, and index"--Publisher's description.
Author : Joan Robb
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Living fossils
ISBN :
Author : Des Hunt
Publisher : Scholastic New Zealand
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,38 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1775431770
In a large valley lies a geographical feature known as Jelly Mountain. It’s called that because of its shape – rather like a jelly having been popped out of its mould. Its straight sides mean the top has never been explored and there are many rumours about strange creatures inhabiting it. Efforts to explore have met with disaster – and this has only made the mystery and fear stronger. Then a light plane crash-lands after buzzing suspiciously around the top of Jelly Mountain … and twins Jason and Jessy become embroiled in a mystery that is not without danger and which is set to rock the whole world. And what does it have to do with the old journal they found hidden in the wall of the old house on the farm? Formerly titled The Secret of Jelly Mountain (2009).
Author : Rebecca E. Hirsch
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467782734
Find out what a tuatara has in common with a green sea turtle. Discover what sets a tuatara apart from a Brahminy blind snake. Check out the comparison charts and use your compare-and-contrast skills to explore reptile traits! Readers will compare and contrast key traits of tuataras—their appearance, behavior, habitat, and life cycle—to similar and different reptiles. Charts and sidebars support key ideas and provide details. Through gathering information about similarities and differences, readers will make connections and draw conclusions about what makes this animal a reptile and how reptiles are alike and different from each other.
Author : Justin L. Rheubert
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 49,61 MB
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1466579870
Reproductive Biology and Phylogeny of Lizards and Tuatara is a remarkable compendium of chapters written by the world's leading experts from over four continents. The book begins with a chapter recounting historical discoveries in reproductive biology and a review of phylogenetics and up-to-date hypotheses concerning evolutionary relationships amon
Author : Malcolm Clarke
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2017-09-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780473402891
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 28,76 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Biology
ISBN :
Author : Richard Sharell
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Amphibians
ISBN :
This is a new kind of nature book. Designed for readers of all ages, it is an introduction in combined text and superb photographs to particular group of creatures - in this volume the colourful reptiles and amphibians of New Zealand. The strangest member of this group, an animal found nowhere else on earth, is the tuatara. The tuatara looks like a lizard, but is is not one. It is the only survivor from the age of giant reptiles - the bronchosaurs, the dinosaurs - and it has remained with us for 135 million years practically unchanged: a living example of ancestral reptiles from which we have evolved. No wonder that it should feature so prominently in Maori art and folklore. Mr. Sharell has for many years studied and photographed the tuatara and its distant cousins, New Zealadn's lizards and frogs, and in this book he gives us the fruit of his work. It is at once an authoritative and richly illustrated handbook, and a striking testimony to his conviction that nature study cannot - or should not - be divorced from an appreciation of nature's beauty.
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Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 1989-07
Category :
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