By Jeff Corwin
A yard anyplace is often enjoyable to explore!
whilst budding naturalists Lucy and Benjamin get an opportunity to go to their cousin Gabe in Brooklyn, they can't wait. they're used to seeing attention-grabbing animals and vegetation within the Florida Everglades the place they dwell, yet they can't think what they are going to locate in Gabe's long island urban yard. the 1st booklet in Jeff Corwin's younger middle-grade fiction sequence exhibits childrens that irrespective of the place you reside, you could celebrate studying the crops, animals, and usual existence round you.
Age point: 6 and up | Grade point: 1 and up
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Extra resources for Your Backyard Is Wild! (Junior Explorer Series, Book 1)
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They breathe air with their lungs and suckle their young with milk. They even have belly-buttons! Bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus , Whales close their blowhole when under water. As they surface they release a spout of air—a blow—before taking another breath. BLOWHOLES No whale, dolphin, or porpoise can breathe under water. They breathe air— but not through a nose and not through their mouth. Whales and dolphins choose when they want to take a breath. This means they cannot go to sleep. Instead, they shut down half their brain at a time, resting one half, then the other.
They include lemurs, bushbabies, and lorises. MAMMALS I like to dance and leap. Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) is a species of lemur that spends lots of time on the ground as well as in trees. It takes great strides and springs through the air at speed as if it were dancing. Babies have to hold on tight! u LONG FINGER The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) lives in Madagascar. It taps on trees with its long middle finger then listens for insects moving under the bark. If anything is there, it rips off the bark with its teeth and hooks out the victims with its finger.
WELL-DEVELOPED NOSES Most insectivores, such as desmans, have poor eyesight but a good sense of smell, with snouts ideal for sniffing out insects. Aardvarks also have a good sense of smell. They have a piglike snout and nostrils surrounded with hair to filter out dust. FACTFILE MOLES ■ Moles live in Europe, Asia, and North America. They live in underground tunnels that they dig with their powerful front legs. Their eyesight is poor but they have an acute sense of smell. ■ Hedgehogs live only in Europe, Africa, and Asia.