Catching air taking the leap with gliding animals
Only a select few animals are able to glide long distances through air, but they include an amazing variety-- even a few species of frogs and snakes. Catching Air takes us around the planet to meet these animals and explore why this gravity-defying talent has evolved in animals, amphibians, and rept...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Thomaston, Maine] :
Tilbury House Publishing,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition |
| Series: | How nature works.
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| Summary: | Only a select few animals are able to glide long distances through air, but they include an amazing variety-- even a few species of frogs and snakes. Catching Air takes us around the planet to meet these animals and explore why this gravity-defying talent has evolved in animals, amphibians, and reptiles. |
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| Physical Description: | 39 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 38). |
| ISBN: | 0884484963 9780884484967 |
| Author Notes: | Sneed B. Collard III (Missoula, MT)graduated with honors in marine biology from U.C. Berkeley and earned his master's degree in scientific instrumentation from U.C. Santa Barbara. He is the author of Fire Birds: Valuing Natural Wildfires and Burned Forests (a Junior Library Guild selection); Double Eagle; Shep:Our Most Loyal Dog; Dog Sense; Pocket Babies and Other Amazing Marsupials; and The Prairie Builders: Reconstructing America's Lost Grasslands (winner of the AAAS/Subaru/Science Books & Films Prize for Excellence in Science Books). The first of his 76 books, Sea Snakes , was published in 1993. In 2006, Sneed received the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work. |
