Amazing Animals - Brossura

Soffer, Ruth

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486420612 ISBN 13: 9780486420615

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2002

Riassunto

This exciting coloring book introduces you to 46 of the world's most unusual animals — from the wandering albatross, with a wingspread of up to 11 feet, to the net-nabber spider, which drops a silken web on its prey.
Realistically rendered by nature artist Ruth Soffer are the cheetah, the fastest land animal over short distance; the shock-producing electric eel; the amazing aye-aye, a nocturnal creature with a long, skeletal middle finger; the horned lizard, which squirts blood from the edges of its eyelids; and the Portuguese man-of-war, a variety of jellyfish with long, stinging tentacles. Also included are the giraffe, whale shark, glasswing butterfly, Tokay gecko, and many other animals considered especially unusual because of their shape, coloration, defenses, and adaptation for survival. Captions provide fascinating information about each animal.

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L'autore:

In addition to illustrating books for Dover, Ruth Soffer has also done work for other major publishing houses. An artist specializing in natural science subjects, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Contenuti:

1. Widowbird 2. Giant Galapagos Tortoise 3. Green Crested Basilisk Lizard 4. Indian Gray Mongoose 4. Javan Mongoose 4. Ichneumon 4. Egyptian Mongoose 5. Electric Eel 6. Cpybara 7. Giraffe 8. Townsend's Big-Eared Bat 9. Komodo Dragon 10. Canadian or North American Porcupine 11. Three-Toed Sloth 12. Bactrian Camel 12. Wild Camel 13. Anaconda 13. Water Boa 14. Net-Casting Spider 14. Net-Nabber 15. Scorpionfish 16. Aye-aye 17. Horned Lizard 18. Platypus 19. Mandrill 20. Veiled Chameleon 21. Calliope Hummingbird 22. Great Pied Hornbill 22. Malabar Pied Hornbill 23. Flying Squirrel 24. Savi's Pygmy Shrew 25. Common Peafowl 25. Indian Peafowl 26. Ostrich 27. Sea Horse 28. Crown-of-Thorns Starfish 29. Diamond Weevil 30. Gharial 30. Gavial 31. Harpy Eagle 32. American White Pelican 33. Common Long-Nosed Armadillo 33. Nine-Banded Armadillo 34. Wandering Albatross 35. Cheetah 36. Tokay Gecko 36. Great House Gecko 37. Red Widow Spider 37. Black Widow Spider 38. Glasswind Butterfly 39. Blue Poison-Dart Frog 40. Whale Shark 41. Matamata 42. Portuguese Man-of-War 42. Jellyfish 43. Angler Fish 44. Blue-Ringed Octopus 45. Giant Cuttlefish

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0486420612
• ISBN 13: 9780486420615
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 48