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Animal Reproduction por Malcolm Penny
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danielx | Mar 6, 2016 | Learn about zebras! Okay, first off, I love zebras. The fact that my nearly-two-year-old is selecting zebra books from the non-fiction shelves of the library on her own is exciting enough, but a book on a topic that I enjoy, to boot? Awesome!
This book is really well put together. Informational and interspersed with a ton of colorful photographs, this book would be welcome on a child's shelf as a picture book and easily transferred to their reference shelf thanks to the wealth of common and uncommon knowledge used in the writing of this book. I love zebras (did I say that already?), but even I didn't know that they were closely related to rhino's and tapirs, or that Chapman's zebra can be almost completely black.
The books references the Zebras habitats, life cycles, food chains, and threats, and has a helpful glossary in the back. A beautiful, informational book for children of all ages (mamas included!).
This book is really well put together. Informational and interspersed with a ton of colorful photographs, this book would be welcome on a child's shelf as a picture book and easily transferred to their reference shelf thanks to the wealth of common and uncommon knowledge used in the writing of this book. I love zebras (did I say that already?), but even I didn't know that they were closely related to rhino's and tapirs, or that Chapman's zebra can be almost completely black.
The books references the Zebras habitats, life cycles, food chains, and threats, and has a helpful glossary in the back. A beautiful, informational book for children of all ages (mamas included!).
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Ermina | Feb 25, 2016 | Many animals become endangered before they had a real existance. Animals should not be killed for fun. Many new laws have been implemented to save animals from becoming extinct.
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mburgess | Nov 1, 2012 | Basics: 1974, softcover, 160 pages, 8 color and 4 b&w plates, 73 species, no range maps
As noted inside the book, this is the first field guide to represent the birds of the Seychelles islands. An excellent introduction to the history, habitats, conservation, colonization, and evolutionary tendencies are given in the initial 47 pages.
This field guide covers the endemic and resident birds, but not all the migrants and vagrants (up to 200) that have occurred on these islands. Of the 12 plates, four of them are in black-and-white, which depict the seabirds.
Despite its age compared to recent field guides for these islands, the text is still good. It is in-depth, and offers substantial historical, distribution, habitat, and behavioral information on the endemics. Many of the birds receive full 1-2 pages of coverage, which is uncommon in a field guide.
There are better field guides (Skerrett, Sinclair), but this book holds a special place because it was the first, much of itstext is still useful and, it was written while one of its endemic birds (Aldabra Brush-Warbler) was still known to exist, having last been seen in 1983.
As noted inside the book, this is the first field guide to represent the birds of the Seychelles islands. An excellent introduction to the history, habitats, conservation, colonization, and evolutionary tendencies are given in the initial 47 pages.
This field guide covers the endemic and resident birds, but not all the migrants and vagrants (up to 200) that have occurred on these islands. Of the 12 plates, four of them are in black-and-white, which depict the seabirds.
Despite its age compared to recent field guides for these islands, the text is still good. It is in-depth, and offers substantial historical, distribution, habitat, and behavioral information on the endemics. Many of the birds receive full 1-2 pages of coverage, which is uncommon in a field guide.
There are better field guides (Skerrett, Sinclair), but this book holds a special place because it was the first, much of itstext is still useful and, it was written while one of its endemic birds (Aldabra Brush-Warbler) was still known to exist, having last been seen in 1983.
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