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Author : Christiane Dorion
Publisher : Designed by Nature
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711265684
Built by Animals introduces us to the creatures who know how to build, and looks at how their techniques have been copied in human construction.
Author : Mike Hansell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780191578601
From termite mounds that in relative terms are three times as tall as a skyscraper, to the elaborate nests of social birds and the deadly traps of spiders, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. But how do creatures with such small brains build these complex structures? What drives them to do it? Which skills are innate and which learned? Here, Mike Hansell looks at the extraordinary structures that animals build - whether homes, traps, or courtship displays - and reveals the biology behind their behaviour. He shows how small-brained animals achieve complex feats in a small-brained way, by repeating many simple actions and using highly evolved self-secreted materials. On the other hand, the building feats or tool use of large-brained animals, such as humans or chimps, require significantly more complex and costly behaviour. We look at wasp's nests, leaf-cutting ants, caddisflies and amoebae, and even the extraordinary bower bird, who seduces his mate with a decorated pile of twigs, baubles, feathers and berries. Hansell explores how animal structures evolved over time, how insect societies emerge, how animals can alter their wider habitat, and even whether some animals have an aesthetic sense.
Author : Bill Wise
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781728239279
Explore animal habitats how they engineer their homes in this beautifully illustrated STEM book for kids. Filled with imaginative questions, animal facts, and educational backmatter, If Animals Built Your House is perfect for your elementary classroom or family library. If animals built your house, would you live in it? This unique story alternatives between the narrator telling the reader what kind of house you would live in if an animal built it, and some fun facts about each! Perfect for teachers looking for STEM/STEAM books for kids 5-7, and books that highlight engineering for kids, innovation, and how things work for kids. If a tree squirrel built your house, no one could ever sneak up on you. Your house might look like just a jumble of leaves, but it's really a tightly woven, waterproof ball. No hard walls here—this furry builder used its body like a rolling pin to make a soft, cozy room. Just watch out for that first step out your front door! Animals featured include squirrels, termites, grouper, honeybees, chimpanzees, tree frogs, polar bears, and more! Backmatter Includes: Explore More for Kids: photos of all of the animals in the book, what their homes look like, and why they build them Explore More for Teachers & Parents: read-aloud suggestions, a STEAM design challenge, and more!
Author : Mike Hansell
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199205561
From vast termite mounds that outstrip our own skyscrapers, to elaborate birds nests, delicate shells, and deadly spiders' traps, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. Mike Hansell reveals the biology behind animal architecture - showing how small brains have evolved to produce complex and beautiful structures.
Author : Christiane Dorion
Publisher : Designed by Nature
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711260658
Humans think they invent everything, but the fact is, us animals have invented ways of solving problems, making unbelievable materials, ways of getting around and working out how to survive on our own for millions of years. In this book you will meet the animal inventors who have shared their super inventing powers to make amazing things for humans.
Author : Michael Henry Hansell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Animals
ISBN : 138303446X
From vast termite mounds that outstrip our own skyscrapers, to elaborate birds nests, delicate shells, and deadly spiders' traps, the constructions of the animal world can amaze and at times humble our own engineering and technology. Hansell reveals the biology behind animal architecture.
Author : Jody Padulano
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781593279226
A children's book that shows how to build 50 simple models of LEGO animals using only standard LEGO parts that every LEGO fan has in their collection. The LEGO Zoo book shows kids of any age how to build 50 simple animal models using only standard LEGO parts that are already likely to be in their collection. You'll learn how to build models of animals like crocodiles, zebras, wolves, lions, flamingos, plus many more. Projects are ordered by increasing difficulty making it easy to jump in without getting in over your head. The animals are so cute and goofy, whether building as a family or solo The LEGO Zoo is sure to deliver a roaring good time!
Author : Christopher Hart
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780770434717
Christopher Hart, America’s best-selling author of art instruction books, tosses all that aside to make drawing animals truly amazingly easy, by simplifying animal anatomy so that artists can get the poses they really want. What does that animal look like as it moves, bends, twists, jumps, runs? Simplified skeletons and an innovative new approach show how to look at an animal as a strangely built human with an odd posture--allowing the artist to draw animals by identifying with them. Hart’s step-by-step instructions and clear text mean true-to-life results every time, whether the subjects are dogs, cats, horses, deer, lions, tigers, elephants, monkeys, bears, birds, pigs, goats, giraffes, or kangaroos.
Author : Deborah Hodge
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781894786829
An introduction to nine inhabitants of the forest, including the black bear, lynx, wolverine, and loon.
Author : Molly Aloian,Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778721566
This informative book introduces young readers to the defining characteristics of the various groups of animals that make up the animal kingdom. The bodies of many animals, including several types of mammals, fish, reptiles, birds, and arthropods, are described in concise and easy-to-understand text. Full-color illustrations and amazing photographs help children begin to realize the vastness of the animal kingdom.
Author : Meg Daley Olmert
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780786744046
Nothing turns a baby's head more quickly than the sight or sound of an animal. This fascination is driven by the ancient chemical forces that first drew humans and animals together. It is also the same biology that transformed wolves into dogs and skittish horses into valiant comrades that would carry us into battle. Made for Each Other is the first book to explain how this chemistry of attraction and attachment flows through -- and between -- all mammals to create the profound emotional bonds humans and animals still feel today. Drawing on recent discoveries from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, behavioral psychology, archeology, as well as her own investigations, Meg Daley Olmert explains why the brain chemistry humans and animals trigger in each other also has a profound effect on our mental and physical well being. This lively and original investigation asks what happens when the bond is severed. If thousands of years of caring for animals infused us with a biology that shaped our hearts and minds, do we dare turn our back on it? Daley Olmert makes a compelling and scientific case for what our hearts have always known, that we were, and always will be, made for each other.
Author : Isabel Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1595722092
Look! Donkeys, boars, geese, and even elephants! These are just some of the fascinating animals that decorate the buildings in our cities. Introduced by simple rhyming text, vibrant photographs and playful illustrations, this book invites children (and adults) to look up and around and discover the urban zoo that shares their city. An illustrated glossary of architectural terms will empower children with new words and phrases, and a newborn interest in architecture.
Author : Lisa Benjamin
Publisher : High Noon Books
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781634023986
Are bugs out to get us? Mosquitoes suck our blood. Wasps sting! Lice move into our hair and raise families there! Scorpions strike with poison. Why do they do these things? Find out why bugs are bugging us! Animals That Bug Us is part of the It’s All Animals series. This high-interest series uses fascinating facts about animals to introduce life-science vocabulary and concepts, including traits, inheritance, and the survival value of animal behaviors. Read-UP! with 3 levels of readability. Each level (set of 5 books) contains a book on a different life science subject so a student can keep reading in one content area if he or she prefers.
Author : Philip Bunting
Publisher : Quirky Creatures
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711262393
The World’s Most Pointless Animals is a witty, quirky, colorfully-illustrated book featuring fascinating facts about some very silly animals…who we find are perhaps not so pointless after all. From familiar animals like giraffes (who don’t have any vocal cords) through to those that surely should not even exist, such as the pink fairy armadillo (absurdly huge front claws, super tough protective shell in baby pink, particularly susceptible to stress), our planet is full of some pretty weird and wonderful animals. For example: Koalas spend up to 18 hours a day asleep! Pandas are born bright pink, deaf, and blind. Dumbo octopuses flap their big fin-like ears to move around. A Narwhal’s tusk grows through its upper lip—ouch! With hilarious text throughout and bright, contemporary illustrations, this guide to absurdly awesome animals contains funny labelled diagrams and some excellent made-up Latin names (n.b. the jellyfish’s scientific name is not actually wibblious wobblious ouchii). Carrying an important message of celebrating diversity and differences, The World’s Most Pointless Animals inspires a drive to conserve our amazing planet and the creatures we’re lucky enough to share it with. Quirky Creatures is a series dedicated to seeking out the weird and wonderful denizens of the natural world and explaining why they are so strange, from the ridiculous to the truly terrifying. Also available in this series is The World's Most Ridiculous Animals and The World's Most Atrocious Animals.
Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778727874
One of the biggest adaptations made by some animals is to live and work together as a group to ensure their survival. This intriguing book shows how social animals communicate and interact with members of their own species. Elephants, dolphins and orcas, monkeys, apes, lions, and wolves, educate their young, work together to find food, and take care of their group members. Smaller animals that work together in microsocieties include termites, ants, bees, and wasps. Students will have fun comparing their own social groups to those found in nature. Fascinating photographs accompany thought-provoking questions and activities.