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Hippopotamus
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Edgar Mark Williams |
"Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging, semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to graze on… |
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Lizard
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Boria Sax |
1 online resource |
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Lost wild worlds
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Robert M. McClung |
A survey of the past and present wildlife of Europe, Asia, Africa, Madagascar and the Islands of the Indian Ocean, the Malay Archipelago, Australia, and New Zealand. Includes a discussion on the futu… |
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Insects, the creeping conquerors and human history
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Carson I. A. Ritchie |
Discusses the effects insects have had on history, art, and medicine. |
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Animals that changed history
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Joan Elma Rahn |
Discusses the effects on history--for better or worse--made by the horse, rat, and beaver. |
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
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David W. Anthony |
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did t… |
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