| Publication |
USA, Scholastic, 2001.
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| Description |
48pYellow Spine
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| Series |
Getting to know Nature's Children
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| Summary/Abstract |
The bookis divided into two sections each of which describes the physical characteristics, habitat and behaviour of caribou and wild horses.
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| Contents |
Wild Horses
If there is a special name for wild horses?
If there were horses in the age of dinosaurs?
Where to look for wild horses?
How they might have gotten to Sable Island?
What life is like for the wild horses there?
Why wild horses are smaller than domestic horses?
What colors wild horses come in?
Why they have developed special markings?
What horses use their tail for?
How they groom themselves?
What might tell you that two horses are friends?
How a wild horse family is different?
What is special about a horse's eye?
Why is it so difficult to sneak up on wild horses?
What do they do if they sense danger/
How do they communicate with each other/
What do they eat?
How much do they eat in a day?
Why horses are such good runners?
Why wild horses sometimes get into fights?
At what age a baby wild horse first stands up?
How young foals spend their days?
When do they start life on their own/
Words to know
Index
Caribou
Why Santa's reindeer look just like caribou?
When a baby caribou stands up for the first time/
If you could outrun a day-old fawn?
If there is more than one kind of caribou?
Where caribou live?
How caribou keep warm in winter?
What a caribou's feet are like?
Why some caribou are bigger than others?
If all caribou antlers look the same?
If female caribou have antlers?
If caribou live alone or in groups?
If they do much traveling?
Why migrating caribou are so noisy?
If caribou can swim?
What do they like to eat?
How do they find food under the snow?
Who are its enemies?
How it warns others of danger?
What causes them the most bother?
When caribou babies are born?
If a caribou doe is a good mother?
When a caribou fawn first grows antlers?
How long caribou live?
Words to know
Index
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| Standard Number |
0717266990 Hb.
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