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Talking to animals : how you can understand animals and they can understand you / by Katz, Jon.;
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Subjects: Human-animal communication.; Human-animal relationships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rock? Plant? Animal? : how nature keeps us guessing / by Kaner, Etta.; Lane, Brittany.;
"Pretty Tricky meets Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate in this guessing-game book that explores how in nature, things aren't always what they seem ... ... sometimes what looks like a plant is actually a rock or what looks like a rock is actually an animal or what looks like an animal is actually a plant. In ROCK? PLANT? ANIMAL?, young readers are invited to guess what they are looking at as they are introduced to animals that don't look like animals, plants that don't look like plants, and rocks that don't look like rocks! The recto of each spread has a large spot illustration of either a rock, plant, or animal, prompting the reader to make their best guess. There will be surprises but the idea is not to trick readers -- anyone who knows children knows that sometimes they want to be right! -- so much as invite them to really consider what they are looking at, using what they know already, as well as what they have learned from the basic definitions of a rock, plant, or animal provided in the book's intro. And Brittany's inviting, beautifully realistic illustrations are up for the scrutiny! A page turn reveals the answer by showing the featured plant/rock/animal situated within a detailed scene, as well as a brief description of the rock/plant/animal, including why it looks the way it does. Fourteen "species" are presented. Includes a glossary."--
Subjects: Mimicry (Biology);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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This is the canon : decolonize your bookshelves in 50 books / by Anim-Addo, Joan,author.; George, Kadija,author.; Osborne, Deirdre,author.;
Upending our traditionally white-dominated 'to be read' piles, Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay push to the fore the voices and cultural perspectives that demand a place on everyone's shelves. From literary giants such as Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie to recent Man Booker Prize winners Paul Beatty and Bernardine Evaristo, the novels recommended in 'This is the Canon' are books that reflect the diverse experiences of people from around the world, of all backgrounds and all races. They are books that represent voices that have for too long been silenced or side-lined.
Subjects: Best books.; Fiction;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Dorling Kindersley animal encyclopedia / by Elphic, Jonathan.; Dorling Kindersley, Inc.;
Provides information about the physical characteristics, habits, and behavior of such animals as hedgehogs, peacocks, penguins, salamanders, and snakes.
Subjects: Animals;
© 2006., Dorling Kindersley Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Mon animal à moi / by Atkinson, Nicki.; Power, Margaret,1945-;
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Subjects: Écoles; Animaux familiers; Animaux; Schools; Pets; Animals;
© c2004., Groupe Beauchemin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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How to speak whale : a voyage into the future of animal communication / by Mustill, Tom,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill--the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak--asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend, just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic--until a humpback whale breached, landing on top of them, releasing the energy equivalent of forty hand grenades. He was certain he was about to die, but both he and his friend survived miraculously unscathed. In the interviews that followed the incident, Mustill was left with one question: What could this astonishing encounter teach us? Drawing from his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker, Mustill started investigating human-whale interactions around the world. When he met two tech entrepreneurs, who told him they wanted to use artificial intelligence (AI) to decode animal communication, Mustill embarked on a journey where big data meets big beasts, using animal eavesdropping technologies to train AI--originally designed to translate human languages--to discover patterns in the conversations of animals. There is a revolution taking place in biology, as the technologies we've developed to explore our own languages are turned to nature. From seventeenth-century Dutch inventors, to the whaling industry of the nineteenth century, to the cutting edge of Silicon Valley, How to Speak Whale looks at how scientists and start-ups around the world are decoding animal languages. Whales, with their giant mammalian brains, offer one of the most realistic opportunities for this to happen. But what would the consequences of such human-animal interaction be? We're about to find out"--
Subjects: Animal communication.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Animal babies in forests. by Kingfisher (Firm);
Meet naughty raccoons, leaping deer, and hungry squirrels in this super cute interactive guessing game book about baby animals in forests. Using the picture and word clues, can you guess the baby animal and its mommy?
Subjects: Board books.; Animals;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The animal's companion : people and their pets, a 26,000-year love story / by Harvey, Jacky Colliss,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Pets; Human-animal relationships.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Safari / by Bateman, Robert,1930-; Archbold, Rick,1950-;
Subjects: Zoology; Animals;
© c1998., Penguin Books Canada,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Find the wild animal / by Foley, Cate;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 23).Challenges the reader to examine photographs and find the wild animals hiding in their surroundings, including monkeys, bears, and sloths.
Subjects: Mammals; Camouflage (Biology); Picture puzzles;
© c2000., Children's Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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