That bull is seeing red! : science's biggest mistakes about animals and plants / by Christine Zuchora-Walske.
Material type: TextSeries: Zuchora-Walske, Christine. Science gets it wrong ; Publisher: Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2015]Description: 32 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1467736600 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 1467745502 (paperback)
- 9781467736602 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
- 9781467745505 (paperback)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 500 Z94 | Available | 33111008006070 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Do bulls get angry when they see the color red? Do plants grow by snacking on soil? Are bats blind? At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about plants and animals, and see how scientific thought changed over time.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sweat + wheat = mice? -- Bumblebees soar above the laws of nature -- Flying kitties -- Sunflower blossoms worship the sun -- The bone-wars brontosaur -- Earth-eating plants -- Blind as a bat -- Beware the cannibal tree! -- Don't jump, little lemmings! -- Seeing red -- Plant-vertising -- Heredity: like mixing paint.
Ages 9-12.