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Bearded Dragons are fascinating, increasingly popular pets. Bearded Dragons may soon overtake the Green Iguana as the most popular reptile pet. With their unique appearance, attentiveness, docile nature, and simple care requirements, Beardies make intriguing pets. In a fun, easy going style, this guide gives authoritative information and advice, covering choosing a dragon, proper housing and diet, handling Beardies, and more. Steve Grenard (Staten...
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Discover the Red-bellied Turtle, which is nearly extinct. Uncover a Garter Snake in your backyard. Locate an Alligator Lizard-or a Legless one. Identifying reptiles is fascinating and fun with this classic Golden Field Guide. Abundant illustrations and the Key Characteristic system, preferred by professionals, make this single-volume reference an outstanding choice for nature projects, collectors of all ages, and scientific study.
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Illinois's wildlife has always played an important role in the history of human beings inhabiting the state. Native Americans depended on birds, mammals, and fish for sustenance and the state's first Europeans came in search of Beaver and buckskins. Although the state's wildlife is still an important resource for human consumption, wildlife is also increasingly important in today's culture for its intrinsic, aesthetic value. For many Illinoisans,...
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"This accessible book encourages people to discover the amazing world of snakes, frogs, lizards, turtles, and newts. Emphasis is on "wow" species (colorful, fun), common backyard or easily-seen-on-a-day-hike species, and those species whose stories best reveal the changing face of nature today. All species accounts will have at least two photos, and a few have as many as five. Each entry will begin with a box of essential information to help orient...
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"Twenty years after the last edition, this is a new, completely updated version of the classic field guide. Intended to aid teachers, students, biologists, naturalists, and everyone else in the identification of amphibians and reptiles found in Illinois. Key characteristics help to guide field identification. Within the book species are grouped for quick identification: salamanders, frogs, turtles, lizards, and snakes. Each entry features focused...
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When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery and wildlife artist Matt Patterson arrive at Turtle Rescue League, they are greeted by hundreds of turtles recovering from injury and illness. Endangered by cars and highways, pollution and poachers, these turtles--with wounds so severe that even veterinarians would have dismissed them as fatal--are given a second chance at life. The Leagues founders, Natasha and Alexxia, live by one motto: Never give up on...
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Snakes & Reptiles is a colorful account of the variety and uniqueness of these often misunderstood creatures. Because most reptiles are predators, they have well-developed sensory systems to aid them in finding prey and avoiding danger. Reptiles are cold-blooded and rely on the temperature of their surroundings to control their body heat. Readers will discover these and many other facts, in addition to color pictures, in SNAKES & REPTILES. Explore...
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"Field guide to the crocodilians, turtles, lizards, and snakes of Costa Rica. Species accounts include photographs, range maps, key characteristics, conservation status, and information about distribution, habitats, natural history, and similar species that might cause confusion in the field"--
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Long ago, the Galactic Federation sent the Atlans, a fierce group of humans from the Pleiades, to Earth to confront the newest colony of the combative ever-spreading alien race known as the Reptilians. The ensuing battle sank the continent of Lemuria and drove the Reptilians underground beneath the Indian subcontinent as well as to Antarctica. Able to shapeshift to appear human, the Reptilians then infiltrated the Atlantean civilization, abducting...
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Based on his more than 40 years of field research, Means, an expert on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, reveals the biological complexity and beauty of animals that he has studied, including the rattlesnake that might have served as the model for the mythical plumed serpent of Mayan art.
16) Nightstalkers
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Megalodon series volume 5
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"In this fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling MEG series, Nighstalkers picks up where MEG: Hell's Aquarium left off. Bela and Lizzy, the dominant Megalodon siblings from Angel's brood, have escaped the Tanaka Institute to roam the Salish Sea in British Columbia. While Jonas Taylor and his friend Mac attempt to either recapture or kill the "sisters, " Jonas's son, David, embarks on his own adventure, motivated by revenge. Having witnessed...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 17
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
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Considered by author Philippe de Vosjoli as the first domesticated species of lizard," the leopard gecko has fast become the reptilian version of the parakeet or goldfish." Leopard Geckos takes a close look at the characteristics of this species that have made these attractive lizards so amazingly popular in the pet world. As a hardy, easy care, and potentially long-lived lizard, the leopard gecko is the perfect size, attractive in
...20) Meg: Generations
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Megalodon series volume 6
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"Dubai : An impossibility is being taken to the Middle East. The transport vessel Tonga is carrying a liopleurodon to the City of Gold. But while investors gawk at the prehistoric creature, any even more dangerous creature is beginning to stir. The megalodon shark that Jonas Taylor worked so hard to capture is coming out of it's drug-induced stupor and refuses to be contained. Now both ancient creatures, older than mankind itself, are loose in the...
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