The animal kingdom is full of marvelous migrators. But which animal would win a migrator match-up? Young readers will find out with this book! They will fly with an Arctic tern on its globe-trotting journey, swim upstream with a sockeye salmon, and more. Spreads compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Kids will decide for themselves the winner of each animal face-off! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Award and the Writer's League of Texas Fiction Award • An Indie Next Selection • An Austin American-Statesman Selects Book A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty. When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin from five years of research in Nigeria, she becomes split between her two homes. Having left behind her loving fiancé without knowing when she can return, Flan learns that her sister, Molly, has begun to show signs of the genetic disease that slowly killed their mother. As their close-knit circle of friends struggles with Molly’s diagnosis, Flannery must grapple with what her future will hold: an ambitious life of love and the pursuit of scientific discovery in West Africa, or the pull of a life surrounded by old friends, the comfort of an old flame, family obligations, and the home she’s always known. But she is not the only one wrestling with uncertainty. Since their college days, each of her friends has faced unexpected challenges that make them reevaluate the lives they’d always planned for themselves. A mesmerizing debut from an exciting young writer, Migratory Animals is a moving, thought-provoking novel, told from shifting viewpoints, about the meaning of home and what we owe each other—and ourselves.

The animal kingdom is full of astonishing speedsters. But which animal would win a speed showdown? Young readers will find out with this book! They will sprint across grasslands with a cheetah, speed through the sea with a sailfish, and more. Spreads compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Kids will decide for themselves the winner of each animal face-off! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The animal kingdom is full of awesome builders. But which animal would win a builder brawl? Young readers will find out with this book! They will take a peek inside a termite mound, explore beaver dams and lodges, and more. Spreads compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Kids will decide for themselves the winner of each animal face-off! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The animal kingdom is full of extraordinary hibernators. But which animal would win a hibernator battle? Young readers will find out with this book! They will journey to the bottom of an icy pond with a painted turtle, sleep in a black bear's den, and more. Spreads compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Kids will decide for themselves the winner of each animal face-off! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The animal kingdom is full of amazing camouflage artists. But which animal would win a camouflage clash? Young readers will find out with this book! They will learn about disguise from the colorful kingsnake, sneak up on prey with an Arctic fox, and more. Spreads compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Kids will decide for themselves the winner of each animal face-off! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Despite the wealth of natural historical research conducted on migration over decades, there is still a dearth of hypothesis-driven studies that fully integrate theory and empirical analyses to understand the causes and consequences of migration, and a taxonomic bias towards birds in much migration research. This book takes a comparative, integrated view of animal migration, linking evolution with ecology and management, theory with empirical research, and embracing all the major migratory taxa (including human pastoralists). The scope extends beyond the target organism to consider the ecosystem-level dynamics of migration. The emphasis is on exciting new research avenues that are now opening up, whether due to advances in our understanding of migration as a biological phenomenon or through the availability of a range of new technologies. Broad themes that emerge include integrating migration into the broad spectrum of movement behaviour, the need for a comparative and cross-taxonomic approach that considers migration at a range of temporal and spatial scales, and examination of the key roles of resource uncertainty and spatial heterogeneity in driving migratory behaviour. The book identifies the potential for new tools to revolutionise the study of migration, including satellite-tracking technology, genomics, and modelling - all of which are linked to increasing computing power. We are now on the verge of a breakthrough in migration research, which is crucial given the multiple threats that face the conservation of migration as a phenomenon, including climate change.

The animal kingdom is full of incredible predators. But which animal would win a predator smackdown? Young readers will find out with this book! They will dive down on prey with a golden eagle, prowl jungles with a jaguar, and more. Spreads compare animals side-by-side with colorful photos and cool infographics. Kids will decide for themselves the winner of each animal face-off! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Wings carry tiny insects, fluttering butterflies, and backyard birds, and they even once propelled some dinosaurs up and through the skies. Find out how, when, and why birds and beasts have taken to the air, and discover how wings work in this informative and brilliantly illustrated book about flight.

This study takes a broad and timely approach to animal movement across both temporal and spatial scales. Movement and migration on land, in the air, and in water are pervading features of animal life-from the smallest protozoans to the largest whales - and can extend from millimetres to global scale. Research into animal movement ecology is now entering a new era with the development of novel molecular, electronic, and technical methods that make it possible to analyse the movements of individual animals under complex environmental conditions that determine the evolution of movement habits.