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591.568 H6512a
- Floor 5
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Summary:
This spectacular guide explores the mysteries of animal migration over land, in the oceans, and through the air. Lavishly illustrated with 200 photographs and maps, it highlights specific conservation issues while tracing the routes of some 100 species.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
- Introduction : life on the move
- [1.] How migration works
- What is migration?
- The cycle of the seasons
- The urge to breed
- Nomads and invaders
- Keeping time
- Surviving the journey
- A helping hand
- Different routes
- Visible clues
- Invisible clues
- Mental maps
- Myths and mysteries
- Origins
- Studying migration
- Growing dangers
- The beginning of the end?
- [2.] Migration over land
- Caribou
- Polar bear
- Life at the top
- Dall sheep
- Bison
- Seas of grass
- Wildebeest
- African elephant
- From desert to delta
- Mongolian gazelle
- Norway lemming
- Emperor penguin
- Red-sided garter snake
- Galapagos land iguana
- European common toad
- Red crab
- [3.] Migration in water
- Humpback whale
- Southern right whale
- Gray whale
- Walrus
- Magellanic penguin
- Atlantic ridley turtle
- Green turtle
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- Magnetic attraction
- Whale shark
- Blue shark
- Northern bluefin tuna
- Sockeye salmon
- European eel
- The greatest migration
- Antarctic krill
- Caribbean spiny lobster
- Australian giant cuttlefish
- [4.] Migration by air
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Straw-colored fruit bat
- Snow goose
- Tundra swan
- Wave riders
- Short-tailed shearwater
- Manx shearwater
- European white stork
- Osprey
- Swainson's hawk
- Land of flood and fire
- Whooping crane
- Red knot
- Bar-tailed godwit
- Arctic tern
- Arctic invasion
- Ruby-throated hummingbird
- Southern carmine bee-eater
- Barn swallow
- Willow warbler
- Pied flycatcher
- Blackpoll warbler
- Hordes of tiny wings
- Monarch butterfly
- Green darner
- Desert locust
- Global migration hotspots
- Glossary
- Further resources
- Index
- Acknowledgments.
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