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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
60 of the world's ugliest and most endangered animalsThis collection of 60 of the world's most ugly (and endangered) animals, features rare imagery and explanatory text. The author is a high-profile biologist but also a stand-up comedian, and the text combines expert research with a light tone.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Discusses the drastic decrease in migratory songbird numbers; the problem's environmental impact; its causes, including pesticides, habitat destruction, and light hazards from tall buildings and communications towers; and ways individuals can help solve it.
Author
Publisher
Island Press/Shearwater Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Discusses the ability of humans to affect the life and death of sea creatures, sharing stories of how different species of fish, sea turtles, marine birds and mammals, and coral reefs have become endangered or extinct, and presenting alternatives to the abuse and misuse of ocean resources.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Edge of the Wild is a documentary about a 30-year land-use battle over privately owned property that is also home to endangered butterflies. The film takes place on San Bruno Mountain, a remarkably intact wilderness that is completely surrounded by urbanization and is just one mile south of San Francisco. The film follows resident Michele Salmon as she fights to uphold the Endangered Species Act and reverse a national policy that allows landowners...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reports on the condition of the Siberian tiger species at the end of the twentieth century, providing information about the Siberian Tiger Project which was established to study and protect the dwindling population, and discussing the origins and evolution of the tiger.
10) The last panda
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
An account of the panda in its precarious native environment, imperiled by natural events and by human greed and indifference.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Prairie dogs are often pictured "kissing." They're actually touching teeth. It's how they recognize each other. These amazing animals also have a sophisticated kind of language. Unfortunately, intelligence isn't enough to save the five species of prairie dogs from extinction.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sea otters are perhaps the cutest animals in the ocean. These friendly animals have the densest fur in the world, an adaptation that both helps them keep warm yet hurts them as fur traders overhunted them. Today, the sea otter population is fighting for its life.
15) Rhinos in danger
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Don't get in a rhino's way. A charging rhino is one of the most dangerous animals in the world. And it may only attack because it can't see well. Rhinos are named for their horns, but tragically these horns are the reason all rhino species are threatened or endangered today. Poachers kill the huge beasts for these trophies. Only about 50 Javan rhinos are left.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Examines stages in the life cycle of a bird, from egg to adult, and provides information about how birds grow inside the egg, where they live, nest building, migration, mating, and the dangers they face.
19) Black rhino
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the habitat, behavior, and endangered status of black rhinos and suggests ways to help save them from extinction.
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