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Clive Roots
Book Code: GR3986
ISBN: 0-313-33986-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-33986-8
232 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2007
List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)
Discount Price: $58.50 Greenwood Press Fall 2008 Backlist Sale. Use code 0826. Save 10%. Ends 12/31/2008.
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 7 x 10
Subjects: Reviews:
  • [T]his book is a fascinating and rich resource of information on vertebrate animal parental care.
    —Science Books & Film     February 2008
  • Zoo director, collector of animals for zoos, and a consultant on planning and designing zoos, Roots has ideas about good parents, for example elephants, and bad parents, for example most fish. He talks about the good ones. He describes them in groups such as bubble-nesters and back-packers, cold-blooded chicks, pouch babies, den mothers, and beach babies.
    —SciTech Book News     September 2007
Description: We share the earth with a wide variety of animal species, each of which brings something special to the diversity of the planet. By knowing more about how animals behave and live, we gain a greater understanding of how life evolved and the importance of biodiversity. Animal Parents examines how these animals care for their young to ensure their survival, care that is as varied as is animal life on earth. The book provides a thorough guide on the behavior of animal parenting, and helps students understand how vertebrates raise and nurture their young. Perfect for classroom papers, Animal Parents is highly illustrated with both color and black and white illustrations of the animals.
 Animal Parents examines a wide variety of behaviors:
  • Some fish carry their eggs in their mouths to protect them, while male seahorses incubate their mate's eggs in a stomach pouch, and certain frogs make bubble nests to keep their eggs moist.
  • Some snakes shiver to raise their body temperature a few degrees to incubate their eggs.
  • Certain birds bury their eggs in a mound of soil and vegetation, and check the temperature with their beaks, while others shed feathers on their bellies so they can warm their eggs
  • Animal parents also must provide food for their young, such has the frogs that lay eggs just for their tadpoles to eat, or the pigeons that regurgitate a secretion from their throats for their chicks.
  • Mammals also exhibit a wide ranges of behaviors, from species in which babies may be hidden in a den or carried with their mothers, to those that simply leave their offspring on an ice flow.
    • LC Card Number: 2007008803
    LCC Class: QL762
    Dewey Class: 591
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