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3) Rainforests
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Description
"Find out what a rainforest is and what kinds of plants and animals call the rainforests home"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 27 cm
Description
"Take a sloth's-eye view of the world in this beautiful and informative photographic picture book. Young readers will see where sloths live, what they eat, how they hide from predators, and much more. They'll learn about the creatures that interact with and depend on sloths in the interconnected and fragile tropical forest ecosystem"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Description
Readers will learn how scientists use camera-trap technology to study woolly monkeys in the Manu Biosphere Reserve. These camera traps helped scientists discover information about the woolly monkeys' diet, behavior, and habitat. Known as the rainforest's gardeners, their activities and behaviors are essential to the survival of the trees and animals in the rainforest. Scientists must learn more to save this keystone species and protect the rainforests....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
35 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 31 cm.
Description
"Conservation biologist Martin Jenkins and acclaimed fine artist Vicky White expertly guide readers into the complex ecosystem of Malaysia's Taman Negara. Conversational prose and photorealistic black-and-white artwork--punctuated by four jaw-dropping full-color spreads--evoke the whir of cicadas and the low call of a pheasant. Pages fill with ants and elephants, leopards and hornbills, gibbons and bats, as animals spread and fertilize seeds to help...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
High in the canopy of the rain forest, a sloth spends her days and nights, camouflaged from predators. She moves very little. You might not spot her because she has a secret life. Follow her as she swims and climbs, looks for food, escapes a harpy eagle, and gives birth to her son...caring for him until the day when she will leave him to live a secret life of his own.
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