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"Do you want to know what dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human."--
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"Follow researcher Carl Safina as he treks with a herd of elephants across the Kenyan landscape, then travel with him to the Pacific Northwest to track and monitor whales in their ocean home. Along the way, find out more about the interior lives of these giants of land and sea--how they play, how they fight, and how they communicate with one another, and sometimes with us, too. Weaving decades of field research with exciting new discoveries about...
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"In this fascinating nonfiction account, author Nancy F. Castaldo reveals just what's going on inside the minds of animals, and through understanding animal intelligence we discover more about ourselves, including far more similarities than one might expect. Humans may have the biggest brains, but intelligence is not a quality exclusive to only us!"--
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It's commonly known that birds migrate to warmer locations for the winter months. But did you know that elephants, whales, and butterflies also migrate, or that there are different kinds of migration that fulfill different purposes? Readers will uncover the mysteries behind these and many other mass animal movements that demonstrate an amazing way animals adapt to survive.
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"In this book, you will learn about the animals you do not want to pet. While all life is sacred not all life is attractive ... whether squirting, oozing, or really hairy, if you like to challenge what you look at and read about then this book is for you"--Page 4 of cover.
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Every animal is part of a food chain-a progression of linked predators and prey. One may think that it's best to be at the top of the food chain, but animals on the lower rungs don't have it as bad as readers might think. This intriguing volume provides a well-balanced presentation that explains key life science facts in digestible chunks of text paired with detailed illustrations and infographics.
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"This book examines Earth's birds, highlighting a diverse selection of 22 notable species from around the world. A blend of narrative text, authoritative nonfiction content, fact boxes, and vivid photos bring these amazing birds to life. Features include a glossary, online resources, source notes, and an index."--
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Ren is an intensly hyperactive chihuahua and Stimpy is a happy-go-lucky, empty-brained cat who share bizarre and often repulsive adventures. Their experiences usually involve hairballs, dirty litterboxes, "magic nose goblins", jars of spit, outhouses, eating dirt, monkey vermin and any other imaginable disgusting substance the two can get their paws on.
12) Predator!
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Survival in the wild creates a hierarchy of predators and their prey; this interaction among the animals forms the basis of a complex ecological system known as the food chain.
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