Catching air : taking the leap with gliding animals / Sneed B. Collard, III.
Material type:
TextSeries: How nature worksPublisher: [Thomaston, Maine] : Tilbury House Publishing, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: 39 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 0884484963
- 9780884484967
- A Junior Library Guild selection.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 591.57 C697 | Available | 33111008968758 | ||||
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
North America's flying squirrels and Australia's sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang gliders-or is that evolution in another guise?
Includes bibliographical references (page 38).
Only a select few animals are able to glide long distances through air, but they include an amazing variety-- even a few species of frogs and snakes. Catching Air takes us around the planet to meet these animals and explore why this gravity-defying talent has evolved in animals, amphibians, and reptiles.
A Junior Library Guild selection.