| Publication |
USA, Scholastic, 1999.
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| Description |
48pYellow Spine
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| Series |
Getting to know Nature's Children
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| Summary/Abstract |
Describes the physical characteristics, habitat and behavior of the pelicans and snakes.
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| Contents |
Pelican
Who a young pelican hangs around with?
How many kinds of pelicans are there?
How to differentiate?
Why some have two homes?
How big they may be?
If it's easy for them to be airborne?
How long its wings are
If they get along with one another?
Whether they dive head first or feet first?
If different pelicans have different ways to fish?
How much its pouch can hold?
If they carry things around in their beak?
How much it eats at one time?
How over-heated pelicans cool off?
How they say "hello"?
Why it doesn't need flippers?
How they court each other?
How they make a nest?
How many eggs a mother pelican lays?
How do they keep their eggs warm?
What a baby pelican looks like?
How young pelicans beg for food?
When a young pelican starts its own family?
Words to know
Index
Snakes
What snakes have in common with their relatives?
Why they don't have legs?
How many kinds of snakes live in North America?
If most countries have snakes?
How long snakes can be?
How short they can be?
If their scales are separate pieces of skin?
If a snake can close its eyes?
Why they shed their skin?
How they shed their skin?
How they manage to move?
If all snakes always move the same way?
If they can swim?
How they learn about their world?
Why snakes sway when a snake charmer plays?
Why they are darting their their tongue in and out?
What they eat?
If a snake chews its food?
How it can swallow things bigger than its head?
How they protect themselves from enemies?
How they warm up or cool off?
What snakes in cold-weather country do in winter?
If all baby snakes start life the same way?
If snakes ever stop growing?
Words to know
Index
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| Standard Number |
0717267059 Hb.
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