If one friend was on the other side of the cafeteria with a hot dog and another friend on a different side with a plate of spaghetti, could you find them with your eyes closed by only sniffing? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use their noses to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of smell to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Smelling Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Can you taste food with your elbows and shoulders and belly button? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use taste to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of taste to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Tasting Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Can you use the hairs on your arm to feel the vibrations of the things around you? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use touch to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of touch to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Touching Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Could you see your favorite restaurant from the other side of town? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use their eyes to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of sight to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Seeing Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
Can you find your lunch deep down in your backpack by hearing it? Many predators have strong senses that help them find food. Some animals use their ears to find their prey. Discover the interesting ways animals use their sense of hearing to find their next meal in the beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read Hearing Their Prey. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.
From sniffing out a meal to finding a mate, species throughout the animal kingdom use their sense of smell every day. While most animals use their noses to smell, such as cats, dogs, and humans, others use different parts of their bodies. For example, bees use their antennae, snakes use their tongues, and butterflies use their legs. A good sense of smell can allow animals to survive in dark, underground habitats. It can help others locate food sources in the vast oceans or the driest of deserts. In this book, readers can find out about how animals' and people's senses of smell work and why this sense is essential for most creatures' everyday lives.
Discusses the sense which enables some animals to detect their prey, search for food, signal danger, or find their way back to where they had been long ago.
Smell is arguably the least understood sense, yet it has always been a vital component of the human experience, and that of all living creatures. Smell has been used by plants and animals for millions of years to warn, to attract, to identify, to navigate and even to mislead. Smelling to Survive explains some of these fascinating processes and explores how the past would have smelt quite different to our ancestors, and how future technologies will further change the world of scents. Along the way, leading scientist Bill S. Hansson recounts amazing stories from the world of olfactory research: from the tobacco plant that excretes an alarm odour, to mosquitos that cherish the smell of sweaty feet, to lilies that imitate the fragrance of a dead horse. Hansson explains why scientists are interested in the smell that surrounds teenage males, and how climate change affects the smell of our environment. He describes research trips to Christmas Island, where crabs with particularly keen noses crack coconuts on the beach, and outlines studies that reveal how penguins recognize their partner by their scent. Born in Sweden, the neuroethologist Bill S. Hansson served as Vice President of the Max Planck Society and is currently Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, and an honorary professor at Friedrich Schiller University. His research centres on the question of how plants and insects communicate through scent.
