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What's the difference between a sea lion and a seal? Where do sea lions live and what do they eat? These and other fascinating questions are answered in this thrilling book about sea lions. Early elementary life-science topics including habitat and diet are covered in rich detail. The accessible text is perfect for young readers. Gorgeous full-color photographs help students connect with the text and develop reading comprehension skills. Fact boxes make this an interesting and informative read.
Fur Seals and Sea Lions by Roger Kirkwood,Simon Goldsworthy Pdf
Fur seals and sea lions are charismatic, large carnivores that engage us with both their skill and playful antics. Although all species in Australian waters were harvested to near extinction 200 years ago, fur seals are recovering and are now common in near-shore waters across southern Australia. Sea lions, however, are endangered. Their populations appear not to have recovered like fur seals and are declining at some locations. Fur seals and sea lions are important top level predators and play an important role in Australia’s temperate marine ecosystems. Key threats they currently face relate to human activities, particularly interactions with fisheries. This book outlines the comparative evolutionary ecology, biology, life-history, behaviour, conservation status, threats, history of human interactions and latest research on the three species of otariids that live in the waters of southern Australia: the Australian fur seal, New Zealand fur seal and Australian sea lion. It also includes brief descriptions of Antarctic and Subantarctic seals that occupy the Antarctic pack-ice and remote Australian territories of Macquarie Island and Heard Island.
Can You Tell a Seal from a Sea Lion? by Buffy Silverman Pdf
A whiskery face pops out of the water. The animal comes to shore for a sunbath. Then it dives back into the ocean to catch fish. Did you just see a seal? Or was it a sea lion? These animals look very similar, but they are different. Read this book to become an expert at telling these look-alikes apart!
After Astro, an orphaned Steller sea lion, was rescued by scientists at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California, his attachment to people made him unable to be returned to the ocean and he now lives at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.
Author : Elizabeth P. Benson Publisher : University of Texas Press Page : 192 pages File Size : 52,7 Mb Release : 2012-07-15 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9780292742635
The Worlds of the Moche on the North Coast of Peru by Elizabeth P. Benson Pdf
The Moche, or Mochica, created an extraordinary civilization on the north coast of Peru for most of the first millennium AD. Although they had no written language with which to record their history and beliefs, the Moche built enormous ceremonial edifices and embellished them with mural paintings depicting supernatural figures and rituals. Highly skilled Moche artisans crafted remarkable ceramic vessels, which they painted with figures and scenes or modeled like sculpture, and mastered metallurgy in gold, silver, and copper to make impressive symbolic ornaments. They also wove textiles that were complex in execution and design. A senior scholar renowned for her discoveries about the Moche, Elizabeth P. Benson published the first English-language monograph on the subject in 1972. Now in this volume, she draws on decades of knowledge, as well as the findings of other researchers, to offer a grand overview of all that is currently known about the Moche. Touching on all significant aspects of Moche culture, she covers such topics as their worldview and ritual life, ceremonial architecture and murals, art and craft, supernatural beings, government and warfare, and burial and the afterlife. She demonstrates that the Moche expressed, with symbolic language in metal and clay, what cultures in other parts of the world presented in writing. Indeed, Benson asserts that the accomplishments of the Moche are comparable to those of their Mesoamerica contemporaries, the Maya, which makes them one of the most advanced civilizations of pre-Columbian America.