Andrew Cleave
1) Big cats
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BIG CATS is a lively account of the most remarkable and fascinating of land predators, the world's hunting cats. With their retractable claws, gaping jaws filled with fearsome teeth, alert reflexes, and muscular limbs, big cats are formidable predators as well as familiar and beautiful mammals. As successful predators on the plains or in the mountains and jungles of the world, big cats play an important role in maintaining the overall health of prey...
2) Frogs
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FROGS and toads are some of the most interesting creatures of the amphibian world. Their variety is enormous, from the familiar bullfrog of ponds and lakes to the exotic but deadly arrow-poison frog of the tropical rain forests. Their history stretches back 300 million years, and their ancestors may have been among the first animals to leave the water for life on land. Readers will introduce themselves to a few of the more than 2,700 species known...
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"Each title in the Creatures of the Ocean series discusses in detail the feeding and breeding traits of each species, their reproductive processes, their defense mechanisms, and their forms of communication and provides a deeper appreciation of the variety and complexity of life in the ocean"--
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Snakes & reptiles is a colorful account of the variety and uniqueness of these often misunderstood creatures. Because most reptiles are predators, they have well-developed sensory systems to aid them in finding prey and avoiding danger. Reptiles are cold-blooded and rely on the temperature of their surroundings to control their body heat. Readers will discover these and many other facts, in addition to color pictures, in Snakes & reptiles. Explore...
5) Wildflowers
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Everyday dandelions or showy orchids wildflowers come in an amazing variety of colors, shapes, and sizes. The flowers all of us enjoy in our gardens and from florists roses, irises, and orchids were all developed from wild species. In their natural states, wildflowers add color and beauty to even the harshest of landscapes. Always a joy to look at, wildflowers also display some incredible adaptations to extreme environments. From snow-crested mountaintops...
6) Sharks
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The mere glimpse of a SHARK in the water is enough to arouse fear and panic in most onlookers. The gaping jaws, rows of sharp teeth, and the triangular fin slicing through water are familiar characteristics of the shark family. What is it about sharks that causes this feeling of terror? Are they all killers, intent on hunting about their victims-especially human ones-or is there more to the life of a shark than just hunting its prey? Well over 350...
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WHALES & DOLPHINS provides a richly illustrated and thoroughly researched celebration of the best-loved and most misunderstood mammals on our planet. Although these wonderful mammals have always been thought of as possessing unusual gifts, it has only been in recent decades that their remarkable intelligence has been truly recognized as a scientific fact. WHALES & DOLPHINS provides an informative and colorful portrait of these beautiful creatures,...
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AQUARIUM FISH is a widespread and popular hobby, and unlike earlier naturalists, modern aquarists have a great deal of highly technical equipment available and well over 100 years of expertise and experience to draw on. An immense variety of fish is available to the amateur aquarist. Tropical freshwater species are still the most popular, but cold-water aquarium fish like the goldfish, found in a great range of colors and forms, are also widely kept....
9) Seashells
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SEASHELLS offers a handsomely illustrated introduction to the fascinating world of the mollusk, covering topics such as shell structure, classifications, gastropods, bivalves (scallops, oysters, clams, and members of the nautilus family), land and tree snails, and the ethics of shell collecting. Few natural objects are as beautiful as the shells of mollusks. Shells occur in all the world's oceans, from the polar regions to the tropics, and few beaches...
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CURIOUS CREATURES is a beautifully provocative view of nature's most unusual and memorable creatures. Fish that fly, birds that are flightless, beautiful but deadly insects, snakes that play dead, and well-camouflaged predators - no matter how bizarre in form or seemingly odd in behavior, each animal has a very specific reason for looking and acting as it does. This book explains striking behavior and vividly portrays animals that have specially adapted...
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SEALS & SEA LIONS are found in all the world's oceans, although they are at their most abundant in the coldest regions. The warmer seas such as the Caribbean and the Mediterranean have only a few left. Some have even become isolated in fresh water; the Baikal seal lives in a vast freshwater lake far from any other seals and endures some of the harshest winter conditions on Earth. From seals to sea lions, as well as the walruses and manatees, is a...
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A comprehensive and fully illustrated guide, this book is the definitive photographic reference guide for anyone interested in butterflies and moths found in Britain and Ireland.
Every species that occurs regularly in Britain and Ireland is included, along with a section dealing with the 'rarest of the rare' - extinct species or very rare immigrants. There follows the main section of the book, which covers our larger moths; every species that occurs...