Catching Air – Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals : Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
How Nature Works
ISBN-10
0884484963
ISBN-13
9780884484967
Publisher
Tilbury House,U.S.
Imprint
Tilbury House,U.S.
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 28th, 2017
Print length
48 Pages
Weight
376 grams
Dimensions
21.00 x 26.20 x 1.10 cms
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*NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book* *Junior Library Guild Selection 2017*Only a few dozen vertebrate animals have evolved true gliding abilities, but they include an astonishing variety of mammals, reptiles, and amphibians.
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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