Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? (20 Questions)
Title | Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? (20 Questions) PDF eBook |
Author | Gilda Berger |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2013-08-27 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0545563240 |
The follow-up to the fun and informative 20 Questions #1: Why Do Feet Smell? A follow-up to 20 Questions: Why Do Feet Smell? (Spring 2012) featuring fun facts about animals. Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? will ask and answer the questions about animals that kids are really curious about. Each book in the 20 questions series contains 20 questions and answers, with a full-color photograph on every page. Read the question on the right and turn the page to see the answer on the left!
Zebra Stripes
Title | Zebra Stripes PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy M. Caro |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 022641101X |
Why do zebras have stripes? Popular explanations range from camouflage to confusion of predators, social facilitation, and even temperature regulation. It is a challenge to test these proposals on large animals living in the wild, but using a combination of careful observations, simple field experiments, comparative information, and logic, Caro concludes that black-and-white stripes are an adaptation to thwart biting fly attack.
Why Evolution is True
Title | Why Evolution is True PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry A. Coyne |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2010-01-14 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 019164384X |
For all the discussion in the media about creationism and 'Intelligent Design', virtually nothing has been said about the evidence in question - the evidence for evolution by natural selection. Yet, as this succinct and important book shows, that evidence is vast, varied, and magnificent, and drawn from many disparate fields of science. The very latest research is uncovering a stream of evidence revealing evolution in action - from the actual observation of a species splitting into two, to new fossil discoveries, to the deciphering of the evidence stored in our genome. Why Evolution is True weaves together the many threads of modern work in genetics, palaeontology, geology, molecular biology, anatomy, and development to demonstrate the 'indelible stamp' of the processes first proposed by Darwin. It is a crisp, lucid, and accessible statement that will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth of evolution.
Why Do Zebras Have Stripes?
Title | Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781480625761 |
Why Do Zebras Have Stripes?
Title | Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Canavan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Animals |
ISBN | 9781445122359 |
This series ties into many different school science topics and will teach students a huge amount about science without feeling textbook-like. The magazine style layout of these high-interest topics is designed for maximum appeal.
What If the Zebras Lost Their Stripes?
Title | What If the Zebras Lost Their Stripes? PDF eBook |
Author | John Reitano |
Publisher | Scholastic Incorporated |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780439210324 |
If the zebras lost their stripes and became different from one another, some white and some black, would they turn and fight each other and stop living life as loving friends?
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Title | The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears PDF eBook |
Author | Dinaw Mengestu |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 311 |
Release | 2007-03-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101217561 |
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and worlds away Sepha could never have imagined a life of such isolation. As his environment begins to change, hope comes in the form of a friendship with new neighbors Judith and Naomi, a white woman and her biracial daughter. But when a series of racial incidents disturbs the community, Sepha may lose everything all over again. Watch a QuickTime interview with Dinaw Mengestu about this book.