Sneed B. Collard

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals

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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: 978-0-88448-496-7
EAN: 9780884484967
Produktnummer: 20087217
Verlag: Tilbury House Publ
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 48 S.
Masse: H25.7 cm x B20.6 cm x D1.0 cm 386 g
Gewicht: 386
Sonstiges: Ab 6 - 8 J.

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.