Animals in Flight

Animals in Flight
Author: Robin Page
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2005-05-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547349149

Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.

Animals That Fly

Animals That Fly
Author: Pearl Markovics
Publisher: Animals on the Move!
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781642800036

What do all the animals in this book have in common? They fly! The expertly crafted text uses a repetitive sentence pattern along with strong visual cues to support early readers as they build their reading skills and confidence. This 16-page book features repetitive and predictable text and incorporates high-frequency and familiar sight words. Children just learning how to read will love these colorful and engaging nonfiction books.

On the Wing

On the Wing
Author: Dr. David E. Alexander
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199996776

"On the Wing is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats."--Book jacket.

Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly

Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly
Author: Stephanie Hoover
Publisher: Rock Point Gift & Stationery
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2017-04-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1631062964

Bring the wonder of flight down to Earth with clever papercrafts and some help from Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly. You'll create graceful, flying paper art with ease! Butterflies and birds and are among nature's most perfect flying machines. From Humankind's earliest days, we have marveled at the ease and majesty of flying creatures - envious of their ability to break gravity's bounds and soar. Fold & Fly Butterflies, Birds, and Other Animals that Fly celebrates and explains the miracle of natural flight, while providing readers with easy-to-follow patterns for creating Mother Earth's most amazing winged creatures. This box set includes a full-color book, over 140 sheets of custom-printed paper, and instructions for creating20 magnificent masters of flight. You will fold papercraft creatures of all kinds, from a prehistoric pterodactyl, to today's dragonfly, flying fish - and yes, even a stork - this set reaches new heights in paper art.

How High in the Sky?

How High in the Sky?
Author: Monika Davies
Publisher: Animals Measure Up
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781681513881

Explore the various regions of the worlds oceans and learn about the many invertebrates that dwell there. First-person accounts from scientists answer important questions about the adaptations of spineless creatures.

Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird

Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird
Author: Gregory Forth
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487520018

Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia. Gregory Forth sheds light on the ongoing anthropological debate surrounding the categorization of animals in small-scale non-Western societies. Forth's detailed discussion of how the Nage people conceptualize their relationship to the animal world covers the naming and classification of animals, their symbolic and practical use, and the ecology of central Flores and its change over the years. His study reveals the empirical basis of Nage classifications, which align surprisingly well with the taxonomies of modern biologists. It also shows how the Nage employ systems of symbolic and utilitarian classification distinct from their general taxonomy. A tremendous source of ethnographic detail, Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is an important contribution to the fields of ethnobiology and cognitive anthropology.

Fly

Fly
Author: Steven Connor
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2006-12-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781861892942

Fly explores the history of this much-maligned creature and then turns to examine its newfound redemption through science.

Supernavigators

Supernavigators
Author: David Barrie
Publisher: The Experiment
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1615196692

“Just astonishing . . . Our natural navigational capacities are no match for those of the supernavigators in this eye-opening book.”—Frans de Waal, The New York Times Book Review Publisher's note: Supernavigators was published in the UK under the title Incredible Journeys. Animals plainly know where they’re going, but how they know has remained a stubborn mystery—until now. Supernavigators is a globe-trotting voyage of discovery alongside astounding animals of every stripe: dung beetles that steer by the Milky Way, box jellyfish that can see above the water (with a few of their twenty-four eyes), sea turtles that sense Earth’s magnetic field, and many more. David Barrie consults animal behaviorists and Nobel Prize–winning scientists to catch us up on the cutting edge of animal intelligence—revealing these wonders in a whole new light.

Book of Bones

Book of Bones
Author: Gabrielle Balkan
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780714875125

It's a book of world records... of bones! Guess whose bones are the longest, shortest, heaviest, spikiest, and more. With touchable skeletons! An International Literacy Association Teachers' Choice Title (2018) A Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading List Title (2019) Ten record-breaking animal bones are introduced through a series of superlatives set up as a guessing game with clues. Readers examine animals' skeletons and guess to whom they belong; the answers are revealed in vibrant, full-color scenic habitats, with easily understood — and humorous — explanations. This entertaining introduction to the connection between animal bones (anatomy) and behavior is playful, relatable, and includes touch-and-feel finishes that bring the bones to life!