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| Author | : Teresa Klepinger |
| Publisher | : Capstone |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2024 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1669078167 |
When an animal's life is on the line, sometimes its best option is to pretend to be something it's not. From posing as poop to gluing dead bodies to their backs, check out some impressive ways that animals hide in order to survive.
| Author | : Thomas Eisner |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2007-04-30 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0674024036 |
Mostly tiny, infinitely delicate, and short-lived, insects and their relatives—arthropods—nonetheless outnumber all their fellow creatures on earth. How lowly arthropods achieved this unlikely preeminence is a story deftly and colorfully told in this follow-up to the award-winning For Love of Insects. Part handbook, part field guide, part photo album, Secret Weapons chronicles the diverse and often astonishing defensive strategies that have allowed insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures not just to survive, but to thrive. In 69 chapters, each brilliantly illustrated with photographs culled from Thomas Eisner’s legendary collection, we meet a largely North American cast of arthropods—as well as a few of their kin from Australia, Europe, and Asia—and observe at firsthand the nature and extent of the defenses that lie at the root of their evolutionary success. Here are the cockroaches and termites, the carpenter ants and honeybees, and all the miniature creatures in between, deploying their sprays and venom, froth and feces, camouflage and sticky coatings. And along with a marvelous bug’s-eye view of how these secret weapons actually work, here is a close-up look at the science behind them, from taxonomy to chemical formulas, as well as an appendix with instructions for studying chemical defenses at home. Whether dipped into here and there or read cover-to-cover, Secret Weapons will prove invaluable to hands-on researchers and amateur naturalists alike, and will captivate any reader for whom nature is a source of wonder.
| Author | : Janet Riehecky |
| Publisher | : Capstone |
| Total Pages | : 33 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1429665084 |
Describes how animals use camouflage and mimicry as weapons and defences"--Title page verso.
| Author | : Douglas J. Emlen |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2014-11-11 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0805094504 |
Emlen takes us outside the lab and deep into the forests and jungles where he's been studying animal weapons in nature for years, to explain the processes behind the most intriguing and curious examples of extreme animal weapons. As singular and strange as some of the weapons we encounter on these pages are, we learn that similar factors set their evolution in motion. Emlen uses these patterns to draw parallels to the way we humans develop and employ our own weapons, and have since battle began.
| Author | : Art Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Australian Geographic |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-04-05 |
| Genre | : Animal defenses |
| ISBN | : 9781742457840 |
Captures the world of camouflage in nature in a collection of eighty photographs that reveal animals and insects that rely on disguises, lures, deception, and decoys to blend into their surroundings.
| Author | : Rebecca L. Johnson |
| Publisher | : Millbrook Press |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2020-08-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1728412668 |
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting to engage reluctant readers! The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. ThenWHAM!the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . . In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.
| Author | : Rumaan Alam |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2020-10-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0062667653 |
Now a Netflix film starring Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke, Myha'la, Farrah Mackenzie, Charlie Evans and Kevin Bacon. Written for the Screen and Directed by Sam Esmail. Executive Producers Barack and Michelle Obama, Tonia Davis, Daniel M. Stillman, Nick Krishnamurthy, Rumaan Alam A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Fiction One of Barack Obama's Summer Reads A Best Book of the Year From: The Washington Post * Time * NPR * Elle * Esquire * Kirkus * Library Journal * The Chicago Public Library * The New York Public Library * BookPage * The Globe and Mail * EW.com * The LA Times * USA Today * InStyle * The New Yorker * AARP * Publisher's Lunch * LitHub * Book Marks * Electric Literature * Brooklyn Based * The Boston Globe A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. From the bestselling author of Rich and Pretty comes a suspenseful and provocative novel keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race, and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped—and unexpected new ones are forged—in moments of crisis. Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter, and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they’ve rented for the week. But a late-night knock on the door breaks the spell. Ruth and G. H. are an older couple—it’s their house, and they’ve arrived in a panic. They bring the news that a sudden blackout has swept the city. But in this rural area—with the TV and internet now down, and no cell phone service—it’s hard to know what to believe. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple—and vice versa? What happened back in New York? Is the vacation home, isolated from civilization, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one other?
| Author | : Christina Wilsdon |
| Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 137 |
| Release | : 2014-05-14 |
| Genre | : Animal defenses |
| ISBN | : 1438126050 |
Insects that look like leaves, snakes that play dead, fish that fly, and toads with poisonous skin--these creatures are among many that defend themselves in fascinating ways. Animal Defenses presents the wide variety of physical and behavioral adaptations used by animals and insects in their struggle to survive and shows how scientists continue to make new discoveries about the age-old maneuvering between predator and prey.
| Author | : Steve Jenkins |
| Publisher | : Clarion Books |
| Total Pages | : 45 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1328850943 |
Introduces young readers to some of the stealthiest camouflaged animals in the natural world and asks them to seek out these animals hiding in plain sight.--
| Author | : Timothy M. Caro |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 609 |
| Release | : 2005-09 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0226094367 |
Tim Caro explores the many & varied ways in which prey species have evolved defensive characteristics and behaviour to confuse, outperform or outwit their predators, from the camoflaged coat of the giraffe to the extraordinary way in which South American sealions ward off the attacks of killer whales.
