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A carregar... A Wasp Is Not a Beepor Marilyn Singer
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I wish every child, and every adult who teaches children, and especially people who write children's books about insects and various animals, could read this book. It covers most of the mistakes and confusions we have about animal classification, sorts them out, and tells us why a whale is not a fish, a bat is not a bird, and a spider is not an insect. I myself need to reread the page about the alligator and the crocodile and commit it to memory. I'd give it an unreserved five stars, except that I have two quibbles. Why choose to differentiate between herons and storks when in most of North America it's the cranes that confusingly resemble herons -- both being relatively common and widespread species --, and the much less common native stork more resembles an ibis? (Wiki says that herons and ibis were once considered members of the stork family anyway... okay, I'm now at least three ways confused.) And most vexingly, Singer has completely ignored my personal primary pet peeve and failed to tell us that beetles -- even ladybird beetles -- are not bugs, and that the designation of (true) bugs is reserved for members of the order Hemiptera. There were actually no bugs mentioned in the book, and even so, more than one reader has tagged the book BUGS. This information definitely needed to be included! ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Most people know the difference between a cat and a dog. But the differences between certain other animals are not so obviuos, which is why it's so easy to confuse them. You may guess that the insect trying to eat your icecream cone is a bee, but it's probably a yellow-jacket wasp. You may think that the chimp sitting in a tree in the forest is a monkey, but it's really an ape. How can you tell these and other similar animals apart? By using your eyes, ears, and all your senses to observe them--and by reading this book. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)595.79Natural sciences and mathematics Zoology Arthropoda Insects: Insecta, Hexapoda Hymenoptera: bees, wasps, ants, etc.Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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