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1) Horse
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Examines the anatomy, history, and breeds of horses, and discusses the different ways horses have been used throughout history. Learn why horses flatten back their ears, how a blacksmith shoes a horse, how horses have been used in wartime, and how a horse's teeth show its age. Discover why a zebra has stripes, which wild asses are now extinct, what a Roman horseshoe looked like, the difference between an English and a Western saddle, what makes horses...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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"After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic giraffe-like rhinoceroses. Here is the ultimate illustrated field guide to the lost world of these weird and wonderful prehistoric creatures."--Amazon.com.
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"Young nature enthusiasts will find answers to these questions and learn all sorts of fascinating facts about mammals in this full-color, interactive book. Mammal Mania explores what makes mammals unique, as well as their anatomy, behavior, and conservation needs. Readers will learn to build a squirrel feeder, write a putrid poem, make an animal tracking station, and much more. Thirty hands-on activities promote observation and analysis, writing...
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Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2003
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32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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Explains what mammals are and how they differ from other animals, with an overview of the life cycle of a variety of mammals, including pouched mammals, sea mammals, flying mammals, and humans.
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[2022]
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"We humans are the inheritors of a dynasty that has reigned over the planet for nearly 66 million years, through fiery cataclysm and ice ages: the mammals. Our lineage includes saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, armadillos the size of a car, cave bears three times the weight of a grizzly, clever scurriers that outlasted Tyrannosaurus rex, and even other types of humans, like Neanderthals. Indeed humankind and many of the beloved fellow mammals...
13) Drawing wildlife
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Watson-Guptill Publications
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
192 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
17) Mammals
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Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
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48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 22 cm.
Description
This book helps to explore mammals, their adaptive features, habitats, relationship with humans and lots' more.
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