Hot days, cold nights, and constant dryness: welcome to life in the desert! This fascinating biome is home to diverse plants, animals, and insects whose ability to survive in such a harsh environment will fascinate readers. Important life science concepts such as adaptation and survival are taught through age-appropriate language. Readers learn about desert creatures’ interdependent relationships and how each creature plays an important role in keeping its ecosystem balanced. Readers also learn how human intervention can harm desert biomes, which are identified through a simple yet informative global map. Colorful photos complement this information-rich science text!

Discover Some of the Strangest Animals that Live in the Desert. This book shows the beauty that usually goes unseen in the desert. Your child will see various creatures, some of which you've never seen before. You and your child will learn a lot about these animals that live in various deserts and how their feeding habits and appearances change to help them survive. This Book Has Amazing Facts and Photos of 21 Incredibly Strange Desert Animals. The desert is full of unimaginable beauty despite looking like a blank canvas under a scorching hot sun. In this book your child will know more about strange creatures that live in the desert and even a few fun facts about them. This book is fully illustrated and has simple blocks of text that will make learning fun for your child. The following animals featured are: Horned Viper Dung Beetle Fennec Fox Deathstalker Scorpion Monitor Lizard The Jerboa Honeypot Ants Australian Thorny Devil Desert Kit Fox Red-Tailed Hawk Shrew Sloth Bear Hyrax Meerkat Greater Roadrunner Chuckwalla Kangaroo Rat Caracal Peregrine Falcon Locust Walking Stick Any child and anyone with an inner child will love reading about these creatures! The animals are so beautifully strange that you wonder how they ended up in the desert and how they manage to survive. This book will show you and your child how wondrously complex nature is and how wonderfully made animals are. With the colorful and vivid illustrations accompanied by information and fun facts, you and your child will be given a glimpse into each strange animal's life. Your kids can have fun while learning! Without experiencing the dangerous desert heat and predators you and your child can explore the mysterious desert through each of the unique and strange animals' eyes. You and your child will experience the art of nature unfolding through the animals that paint the seemingly blank canvas of the desert. This book will take you on a journey of a lifetime without ever leaving your house, so relish the trip! This book is part of a series called, "Weird & Wonderful Animals" all of which are great for bedtime reading. Collect the series!

Read and discover all about desert life around the world. How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger? Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.

Uses clear and informed text to tell readers what scientists know and what they are still guessing about a collection of odd-looking monsters, including how experts think these dinosaurs used their individual, bizarre characteristics.

Presents facts about mammals, insects, fish, reptiles, birds, amphibians, endangered species, and wildlife in the home.

All over the planet, organisms of many species are appearing outside of their natural habitats—often carried by that particularly peripatetic species Homo sapiens. This book marks the first comprehensive attempt to address problems posed by expanding populations of exotic plant and animal species in the Sonoran Desert and adjacent grasslands and riparian areas. It describes the arrival and spread of non-native species as diverse as rats and saltcedar, covering both their impacts and the management of those impacts. It is estimated that as much as 60 percent of the vegetative cover of the Sonoita Creek-Patagonia Reserve, the first Nature Conservancy area designated in Arizona, is dominated by exotic plants, and that introduced fish pose a recurrent threat to the native fish of that area. Meanwhile at the Grand Canyon, invasives such as tamarisk, red brome, carp, and catfish are pervasive either in the Colorado River or in the patches of desert scrub along its shores. Throughout the Sonoran Desert and adjacent areas, from islands in the Sea of Cortés to desert grasslands, some six hundred species of non-native plants and animals have become established, with bullfrogs and Mediterranean grasses now common where they once never existed. The book brings together contributors from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations, including such experts as Gary Paul Nabhan, Richard Mack, and Alberto Búrquez-Montijo. They review historic and even prehistoric origins of non-native species—not only exotic plants, amphibians, and mammals but also insects, fish, and birds. They then examine significant problems in each major subregion and ecosystem and discuss control efforts. The volume contains the first compiled list of more than 500 naturalized exotic species in the Sonoran region. Invasive species issues are rapidly emerging as major environmental concerns both locally and worldwide. This book will assist professionals—ecologists, conservation biologists, and policy makers—involved in invasive species control in the Southwest and will be a rich resource for all concerned with protecting native species and their habitats.

Brief text and illustrations introduce over three hundred animals, from aardvark to zebu.

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