Catching Air
Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
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?
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-88448-883-5
- EAN: 9780884488835
- Produktnummer: 34326450
- Verlag: Tilbury House,U.S.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 48 S.
- Abbildungen: color photography
Über den Autor
Science writer Sneed B. Collard III (Missoula, MT; www.sneedbcollardiii.com) is the author of more than 80 children's books, including One Iguana, Two Iguanasand Catching Air. He has received the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for his body of work, and his books are featured regularly in the Junior Library Guild, NSTA/CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book lists, and other best-of lists.
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