Clarifying common misconceptions about animals, such as the differences between alligators and crocodiles, an introduction to animal traits explains how scientific classifications are made. Reprint.
Discover how a tadpole grows into a frog. This title explains animal growth in a clear and organized manner. Readers will love watching the transformations take place.
Have you ever thought about how incredible about our universe? By lifting up these flaps, you will learn many curious and amazing facts about stars, planets and travelling outer space.
Introduces members of the primate order, discussing their evolution, physical characteristics, social behavior, and living environments.
Introduce readers to a world beyond their backyard. With large, vibrant photographs, this series lures readers into the exciting lives of wild animals. In the Wild reaches around the globe--from the deep-sea home of dolphins to the frigid territory of the polar bear-in a fascinating exploration of the life cycles, food gathering and hunting habits, basic survival, and family and social structur…
One of a new series of books, Read and Discover, designed to encourage children to learn about the world as they learn to read. Watch them leap and swing and bathe and play. Everyone likes monkeys! Monkeys are everywhere. They come in all shapes and sizes and do all sorts of interesting things. Hansard takes young readers on a dawn-to-dusk tour of monkeys and apes throughout the world. Patrici…
Full-color photos & full-color illus. Here are monkeys that chew gum, monkeys that fish for crabs, and monkeys susceptible to sunburn in a fact-filled overview of these funny, furry creatures.
An introduction to the world of monkeys and apes, discussing appearance, habitat, behavior, diet, threats to their survival, and efforts to protect them. Part of a series on animals and animal behaviour, produced in collaboration with the makers of the award-winning television programme Survival, and aiming to introduce children to the animal kingdom. This book covers the natural history of ape…
Text and photographs introduce the physical characteristics and behavior of chimpanzees that live in tropical rain forests.
Monkey and apes belong to a fascinating group of animals called primates. Zoologists organize animals into various groups according to how many things they have in common. For example, all animals which have fur, are warm blooded and feed their young on milk, are classed as mammals. The mammal class is then divided into smaller groups called orders, such as the carnivore order (which includes d…