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Incredible Journeys : amazing animal migrations / Dwight Holing.
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| Authors: |
Holing, Dwight.
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| Call number: |
j591.568 HOL |
| Publisher: |
New York : Kingfisher : Distributed in the U.S. by Macmillan, 2011. |
| Publication date: |
2011. |
| Subject: |
Animal migration -- Juvenile literature.
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| Title: |
Incredible Journeys : amazing animal migrations / Dwight Holing. |
| Additional title: |
Amazing animal migrations |
| Physical description: |
126 p. (some folded) : col. ill., col. maps ; 30 cm. |
| Contents note: |
The migration story -- Preparation and travel -- Finding the way -- Land -- Journeys by land -- African elephant -- Zebras -- Wildebeests -- Caribou -- Polar bears -- Emperor penguins -- Forest primates -- Mountain dwellers -- Scuttlers and sliders -- Air -- Journeys by air -- Flyways -- Seabirds -- Shorebirds -- Arctic terns -- Swallows -- Flamingos -- European white storks -- Cranes -- Songbirds -- Watefowl -- Butterflies -- Bats -- Locusts -- Water -- Journeys by water -- Blue whales -- Gray whales -- Humpback whales -- Great white sharks -- Whale sharks -- Northern bluefin tuna -- Bottlenoses and relatives -- Salmon -- European eels -- Walrus -- Elephant seals -- Sea turtles -- Krill. |
| Notes: |
"Includes poster-size fold-out pages"--Cover.
Includes index. |
| Summary note: |
Follow the amazing migration stories of creatures as diverse as the African wildebeest, the plains zebra, the American monarch butterfly, the Mexican free-tailed bat and the Pacific bluefin tunas as they travel from one habitat to another to find food, avoid predators and extreme temperatures, or to breed. |
| Added author: |
Animal Planet (Television network)
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| ISBN: |
9780753467268 (paper over cardboard) :
0753467267 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1319780
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| Bib No.: |
1319780 |
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