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From bestselling and multi-award-winning author Dr Mark Norman. If you think your family is funny, imagine being a baby alligator carried around in its mother's mouth! Find out why some families of the animal world are so funny.
We might think of sponges as bathroom objects but the real living animals are far more interesting. They come in all shapes and sizes, occur in all oceans of the world, and have amazing lives. Sponges have lived in our oceans for 600 million years. Ancient forms even built reefs bigger than the Great Barrier Reef. Today, sponges help clean our oceans, are experts are chemical warfare and can rebuild themselves after being torn apart. Some even live for 2000 years. There is still much to learn about the diversity and biology of sponges in southern Australian waters, with many species still waiting for formal scientific description. This guide introduces naturalists, beachcombers, divers and others to sponge species commonly encountered in southern Australia.
A fascinating visual comparison of the unique environments of the North and South Poles, and the survival strategies of the creatures that live there.
From oversized noses to bulging eyes, elaborate beaks to gigantic ears - the faces of some animals may look funny to us but their peculiar features are exactly what those animals need to survive.
A celebration of weird and wonderful bums From the bombardier beetle's exploding backside to the sticky bottom of the sea cucumber, this collection presents a variety of fascinating rear ends in a funny, straightforward way, and introduces children to the concepts of survival, camouflage, environment and evolution.
From bestselling and multi-award-winning author Dr Mark Norman. Some animals live in funny places - prickly cactuses, deep dark caves, high treetops - strange places humans would not survive for five minutes. Find out why these animals have such funny homes.
First full-lenght biography of Norman Douglas. Norman Douglas (1867-1952) lived a long, varied and on many occasions scandalous life. The son of a Scottish father and Austrian Mother, with a boyhood spent in the Voralberg district, he was by turns a young scholar of ripening repute, a man about town in London, a young diplomat in Russia. From Russia he had to make a sudden departure because of scandal over a woman. Later he had to leave equally hurriedly - this time because of boys. Much of his life was spent as an involuntary expatriate in his beloved Italy, where a host of friends stood by him. Norman Douglas was author of books like South Wind, Old Calabria, Fountains in the Sand and Siren Land.
Some are shy, some are curious and some are grumpy enough to give you a slap as you walk by, but all penguins are amazing.
We all think that we know what koalas are like -- but prepare to be surprised! Part of a brand-new series of books introducing kids to real life of some of their favourite animals.
From the surface of the sea to the deepest depths, meet the amazing, adaptable and sometimes creepy creatures that live in the different levels of the ocean.