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"Did you know that almost a third of the world's 1,300 species of bats are in serious trouble? The latest, updated edition of a teacher and classroom favorite with two brand new illustrations and spotlights on vanishing species and how we can help. Perfect for budding scientists, environmentalists, and nature lovers"--
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"Hang out with furry, flying bats! Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about bats' lives in the darkness -- a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader -- carefully leveled to help children progress. All About Bats is a beautifully designed reader all about these nighttime animals, from how they find their way in the dark to what they eat and how they sleep upside down! The engaging...
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Los murciélagos son los únicos mamíferos que saben volar y en contra de la opinión que se tiene de ellos, prefieren comerse una mosca a la sangre humana. Además, son muy importantes para la naturaleza y los necesitamos, así que hay que protegerlos. Si te encuentras a uno, déjalo dormir tranquilo.
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Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species explores bats and their fundamental role in our ecosystems through lavish full-color photographs and lively narrative. From the Giant Golden Crowned Flying Fox, a megabat with a wingspan of more than five feet, to the aptly named Bumblebee Bat, the world's smallest mammal, the number and diversity of bat species have proven to be both rich and underestimated. Nocturnal, fast-flying, and secretive, bats are...
7) Bats
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"This revised edition surveys key aspects of bats, describing the flying mammals' appearance, behaviors, and habitats. A folk tale explains why these creatures are nocturnal."--
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There are more than 1,300 species of bats - or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night," consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single ten-gram bat may eat several thousand insects in a night. Throughout the tropics and subtropics, fruit and nectar-feeding bats are also crucial to the lives of plants, providing both pollination and seed dispersal. Bats:...
12) Stellaluna
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After she falls headfirst into a bird's nest, a baby bat is raised like a bird until she is reunited with her mother.
13) Little red bat
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Takes young readers on an educational journey through one red bat's seasonal dilemma of hibernating or migrating. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.
14) Home in the cave
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Baby Bat loves his cave home and never wants to leave. While practicing flapping his wings one night, he falls and Pluribus Packrat rescues him. They then explore the deepest, darkest corners of the cave where they meet animals that don't need eyes to see or colors to hide from enemies. Baby Bat learns how important bats are to the cave habitat and how other cave-dwelling critters rely on bats for food. Includes "For Creative Minds" section.
15) The bat book
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Take an amazing journey through the upside-down world of bats with Charlotte Milner's The Bat Book. Bright, bold, and beautiful illustrations accompany fascinating facts about these furry flying mammals and their importance to the world we live in. From the way they fly, to how they communicate with each other, how they hunt, and why they sleep upside-down, each of the world's 1,300 types of bat is unique and utterly fascinating. Bats are also incredibly...
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Describes how various animals use their ears to find food, keep cool, and communicate. Format includes large color photographs, easy-to-read font, and simple interior design. Series features vocabulary preview and review pages and back matter, which gives young readers additional material to discuss or think about.
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From menacing moonshiners and armed bandits to charging elephants and man-eating tigers, Merlin Tuttle has stopped at nothing to find and protect bats on every continent they inhabit. Enamored of bats ever since discovering a colony in a cave as a boy, Tuttle saw how effective photography could be in persuading people not to fear bats, and he has spent his career traveling the world to document them. Few people realize how sophisticated and intelligent...
20) Bat
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"A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of bats, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these flying mammals"--
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