Animals: Creatures of the Wild offers a tour of the animal kingdom and the habitats in which mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, and fish live and thrive. Students will discover how animals find and hunt for food, how and why they live in concert with other animals, why they migrate or hibernate, and more.
Did you know . . .
- Spiders eat more than 400 million tons of insects each year.
- Honey bees sometimes “dance” to communicate with each other.
- The olm salamander can go ten years without eating anything.
- Snapping turtles can use their tongue as bait, making it look like a worm, to lure fish close to their mouths.
- A bald eagle could read a newspaper from across a football field (assuming they could read, of course!).
- The arctic tern flies from Greenland to Antarctica (and back) each year, which means that it flies more than forty thousand miles per year.
- Cheetahs can run over sixty miles per hour.
- Certain species of ants count their own steps to find their way back to their anthill.
Catholic Permeation: Beyond this, students will learn about St. Francis, the patron saint of animals; the story of St. Brendan and the whales; St. Modomnoc and the bees; the serpent in Genesis; and the Church’s teaching that caring for animals draws us closer to God.
- Publication Date:
- 04/05/2021
- Pages:
- 150
- SKU:
- 2920
- Format:
- Textbook
- Height:
- 11.00
- Width:
- 8.50
