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It is exactly like Isaiah 11:6: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid . . . ” Written by National Geographic magazine writer Jennifer Holland, Unlikely Friendships documents one heartwarming tale after another of animals who, with nothing else in common, bond in the most unexpected ways. A cat and a bird. A mare and a fawn. An elephant and a sheep. A snake and a hamster....
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"In the cloud forests of Monteverde, Costa Rica, pairs of male long-tailed manakins--clad in their stunning, red, blue, and black plumage--use perches as a stage for a coordinated song-and-dance to attract mates. Because the potential benefits are so great, males compete intensely for access to the stage. Who wins that competition? If you want a good perch to attract a mate, you need to have connections--and be deeply embedded in the manakin social...
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"Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all that the genes in your body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkat colonies...
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"A rat will go out of its way to help a stranger in need. Lions have adopted the calves of their prey. Ants farm fungus in cooperatives. Why do we continue to believe that life in the animal kingdom is ruled by competition? In The Social Lives of Animals, biologist Ashley Ward takes us on a wild tour across the globe as he searches for a more accurate picture of how animals build societies. Ward drops in on a termite mating ritual (while his guides...
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Unlikely friendships for kids volume 2
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A collection of five stories with photographs, describing unlikely friendships between animals, including the dog that became friends with a piglet, and examining the unexpected ways animals help other animals.
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"Lions and bees and meerkats, oh my— these are a few of the many animals that survive and thrive in groups. Discover how group members help each other face life's challenges. From finding food to raising young, some animals are just better off together." --Description provided by publisher.
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"These pairs of unlikely animal friends -- as seen in The Dodo's viral videos -- are sure to warm your heart! These animal pairs don't look like they'd be the best of friends -- but sometimes a new friend is closer than you think! This book features more than 100 pages of unexpected, heartwarming, and unlikely animal friendships! These 50 odd couples -- from dogs and ducks and cats and mice, to lions and tigers and even bison and pigs! -- have all...
13) Animal groups
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Introduces readers to the distinctive features, behaviors, and group names of exotic animals, from a crash of rhinos and a zeal of zebras to a pandemonium of parrots.
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"The majestic mountain gorillas live in family groups, led by a powerful silverback. Juxtaposing the apes’ awesome strength and surprising gentleness, He Leads tells the story of family loyalty and love....[This] picture book is a monument to these endangered gentle giants." --book jacket
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This "reader [is] all about packs, swarms, herds, towers, and prides of animals living together in groups. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile's so that children are set up to succeed....[Readers] will love to find out about the unusual words for animal groups, and how living together in groups helps animals to survive in the wild." --publisher's website
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