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Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts about How Animals Adapt Hardcover - 1999
by Joanne Settel
This title contains fascinating stories of how creatures adapt to the natural world in order to feed themselves, care for their young, and find safety in their environment. Illustrations.
Summary
A wasp lays its eggs under a
caterpillar's skin so that its young can
eat the caterpillar's guts as they grow.
A young head louse makes its home
on a human hair and feasts on
human blood.
Frogs use their eyeballs to help
swallow their food.
From small worms that live in a dog's nose mucus to exploding ants to regurgitating mother gulls, this book tells of the unusual ways animals find food, shelter, and safety in the natural world.
If animals all ate the same things and lived in the same places, it would be impossible for all of them to survive. So they specialize. Some animals eat the bits that others leave behind, such as skin and mucus. They find all kinds of unusual places to shelter, including the cracks and holes in another creature's skin or its internal organs. They use their own bodies to protect themselves from predators by imitating unsavory items such as bird droppings and even by blowing up.
These habits that may seem disgusting to us are wonderful adaptations that make it possible for a great variety of creatures to live and thrive on Earth. Read about them and marvel at the amazing ways animals adapt to the natural world.
caterpillar's skin so that its young can
eat the caterpillar's guts as they grow.
A young head louse makes its home
on a human hair and feasts on
human blood.
Frogs use their eyeballs to help
swallow their food.
From small worms that live in a dog's nose mucus to exploding ants to regurgitating mother gulls, this book tells of the unusual ways animals find food, shelter, and safety in the natural world.
If animals all ate the same things and lived in the same places, it would be impossible for all of them to survive. So they specialize. Some animals eat the bits that others leave behind, such as skin and mucus. They find all kinds of unusual places to shelter, including the cracks and holes in another creature's skin or its internal organs. They use their own bodies to protect themselves from predators by imitating unsavory items such as bird droppings and even by blowing up.
These habits that may seem disgusting to us are wonderful adaptations that make it possible for a great variety of creatures to live and thrive on Earth. Read about them and marvel at the amazing ways animals adapt to the natural world.
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- Title Exploding Ants: Amazing Facts about How Animals Adapt
- Author Joanne Settel
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Pages 40
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York
- Date 1999-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780689817397 / 0689817398
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.34 x 10.32 x 0.41 in (21.18 x 26.21 x 1.04 cm)
- Ages 07 to 10 years
- Grade levels 2 - 5
- Reading level 1020
- Library of Congress subjects Animal behavior, Animals - Habits and behavior
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97035395
- Dewey Decimal Code 591.5
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Citations
- Booklist, 04/15/1999, Page 1527
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 07/01/1999, Page 341
- Kirkus Review - Children, 04/01/1999, Page 538
- School Library Journal, 04/01/1999, Page 156
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