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Animals that eat nectar and honey
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Discusses nectar-eating animals, including ants, flies, bats, tropical sunbirds, honey possums, and lemurs and emphasizes their role in the pollination of flowering plants. |
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Bats
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Describes the characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of common and unusual bats, the only mammals that fly. |
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Biography of an ostrich
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Describes the physical characteristics and habits of an ostrich living on the African veld. |
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Biography of a rhino
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Moved to a national park in Uganda in an effort to protect her disappearing species, a young white rhino becomes a pet of the rangers and tourists until it is time for her to have a family. |
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Chickens and their wild relatives
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, and history of the domestic chicken and its wild relatives, including the grouse, pheasant, prairie chicken, and ptarmigan. |
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Gods or demons?
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
When his time machine is accidentally activated, Eli, his brother Tom, and their friend Sadie find themselves transported back thousands of years to a prehistoric time where they discover three races… |
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Misunderstood animals
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Anecdotes about animals and their place in nature. |
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Nature's pretenders
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Discusses the defenses and deceptions in appearance and behavior developed by animals to facilitate their survival. |
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Pigs wild and tame
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Introduces the domestic pig and a variety of wild ones including the wild boar, bushpig, pigmy hog, warthog, and peccary. |
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Spiders
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Describes, in text and photographs, the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of a variety of spiders. |
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Star circus
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
When the Star Circus lands on Halcyon, Gratia discovers an exceptional form of intelligent life on the sister planet of Furioso. |
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Star dog
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
A college freshman fears for the safety of his pup that was apparently sired by a spacedog whose telepathic powers he inherited. |
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Strange sex lives in the animal kingdom
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Discusses how organisms ranging from protozoa to mammals reproduce. |
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Wild cousins of the cat
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Alice Lightner Hopf |
Introduces the physical characteristics, habits, and environment of different members of the cat family including the lynx, lion, cougar, caracal, and many others. |
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