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Summary:
Explains biodiversity, discusses the role animals play in ecosystems, describes the threats affecting the lives of animals, and profiles various animals, including jaguars, black rhinoceros, and bluefin tuna.
Notes:
Includes index.
Description based on print version record.
Contents:
- Animals alive!
- How animals evolved
- The variety of life
- Unexpected consequences
- Going, going, gone!
- What are the threats?
- How threatened is it?
- Mammals
- Jaguar
- Sumatran orangutan
- Sea otter
- Ethiopian wolf
- Manatee
- Tasmanian devil
- Polar bear
- Black rhinoceros
- Birds
- Southern rockhopper
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- Whooping crane
- Reptiles
- Leatherback turtle
- Komodo dragon
- Amphibians
- Golden toad
- Fish
- Southern bluefin tuna
- Invertebrates
- Coral reef
- Monarch butterfly
- Saving species
- Tracking tigers
- Keeping animals alive
- Backyard naturalist
- Setting up a reserve
- New species.
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