Weird nature (Record no. 60139)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781552975862
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Zafaa Books & Distributors
Distributor address : 313/56F, 49A, Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi.
Bill Number : ZBD0685
Bill Date : 31/03/2023
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 591.5 DOW
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Downer, John.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Weird nature
Statement of responsibility, etc / John Downer.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , Willowdale, Ont.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Firefly Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2002.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 156 pages
Other physical details : color illustrations
Dimensions ; 29 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 3800
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Introduction<br/>Marvelous motion<br/>Bizarre breeding<br/>Fantastic feeding<br/>Devious defenses<br/>Puzzling partners<br/>Peculiar potions<br/>Index<br/>Acknowledgments<br/>Picture credits
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc The companion book to the six-part Discovery Channel series, Weird Nature is an astonishing exploration of nature's strangest behavior. The ingenuity of all kinds of animals is celebrated including the flying dragon or draco whose membrane wings resemble early designs for aircraft wings, spiny lobsters in Florida who form a "mass conga line" when moving to deeper waters and the Wallace tree frog whose large webbed hands and feet allow it to glide as far forward as it drops vertically. These animals and many more are featured in this revealing and often amusing look at nature. Chapters include: - Fantastic feeding -- the many different ways nature finds food for fuel including worms that eat themselves. - Devious defenses -- to avoid being eaten, animals have developed an array of defenses including porcupine fish that inflate into spiny balls and mantis shrimps with a punch that can knock a hole in glass. - Marvelous motion -- ingenious ways of moving around including flattened snakes and flying fish. - Extraordinary equipment -- tools for enhancing animal lives like the Mallee fowl that has a thermometer in its bill. - Strange structures -- the bizarre assortment of animal created buildings like the palm leaf tents made by fruit bats and the Namib spider that builds a Stonehenge circle around its burrow.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Animal behavior
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Animals Habits and behavior
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Juvenile works
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Trivia and miscellanea
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name John Downer
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Koha item type Books
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 06/04/2023 Zafaa Books 3800.00   591.5 DOW 29213 06/04/2023 06/04/2023 Books
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