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With exciting full-color photos, Nature's Children brings you face-to-face with some of the world's most intriguing animals-from chimpanzees to pandas to tarantulas. Each title reveals how these creatures survive in the wild, how they raise their young, what's being done to protect them, and more wild facts.
- Genres1st GradeNonfiction
48 pages, Library Binding
First published March 1, 2012
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April 1, 2025
I liked how this book included what animals were related to pandas, as opposed to red pandas. Ailuropoda melanoleuca is the panda's scientific name... Red panda's scientific name is not included in this book but an easy lookup for completion's sake - it is Ailurus fulgens. Fulgens means shining in Latin. I don't think the other is a Latin word.
Well, I made sure: ""Melanoleuca" refers to a genus of mushrooms, meaning "black and white" in Ancient Greek, though the mushrooms themselves don't have a literal black and white appearance, often having brown caps and whitish gills. " I was proven wrong about that, then. It IS a word. It efers to black & white, for example, in mushrooms.
Anyway, this is a basic book about not just pandas but creatures in general which are kind of like it, plus a herd of goats. As a LiveJournaler since early high school, I particularly liked that part, as that blog's mascot is a goat named Frank.
Most of the images in this book were of black and white pandas.
Well, I made sure: ""Melanoleuca" refers to a genus of mushrooms, meaning "black and white" in Ancient Greek, though the mushrooms themselves don't have a literal black and white appearance, often having brown caps and whitish gills. " I was proven wrong about that, then. It IS a word. It efers to black & white, for example, in mushrooms.
Anyway, this is a basic book about not just pandas but creatures in general which are kind of like it, plus a herd of goats. As a LiveJournaler since early high school, I particularly liked that part, as that blog's mascot is a goat named Frank.
Most of the images in this book were of black and white pandas.
May 1, 2019
This was a really engaging read, and very educational.
August 9, 2016
This book is part of the Nature’s Children Scholastic series; each of the collection is filled with gorgeous photographs, easy to follow text, interesting facts, a glossary and information for further research. These books are perfect for elementary age students for animal reports, additional science curriculum or just for fun.
People have been fascinating with pandas for years and despite many attempts to help their numbers these beautiful bears populations continue to decline. These solitary animals only reproduce a single birth every three or so years and only if the conditions are perfect. Their bamboo diet is also an issue because of a strange ten year bamboo flowering cycle, in which the pandas refuse to eat bamboo that produces flowers. My favorite new panda fact is that pandas will cover their eyes with their front paws to show another panda that it doesn’t wish to fight.
People have been fascinating with pandas for years and despite many attempts to help their numbers these beautiful bears populations continue to decline. These solitary animals only reproduce a single birth every three or so years and only if the conditions are perfect. Their bamboo diet is also an issue because of a strange ten year bamboo flowering cycle, in which the pandas refuse to eat bamboo that produces flowers. My favorite new panda fact is that pandas will cover their eyes with their front paws to show another panda that it doesn’t wish to fight.
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