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Author: Ann Sharp
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781565541603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces this unique animal, its evolution, physical characteristics, distribution, life cycle and socialization, as well as how people have interacted with the koala since its discovery, the severe threats from human influence that it still faces and what people are doing to save it and its habitat.
Author: Bobbie Kalman
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778721628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes koalas, kangaroos, Tasmanian devils and other mammals with pouches using interesting facts and photos that highlight this group of animals, most of whom live in Australia.
Author: Caroline Arnold
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1623345499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCuddly-looking koalas are very appealing, but today koalas are an endangered species. Once hunted for their fur and now deprived of their food supply as forests are cut down for development, koalas are being raised in special parks where they can live in safety. Researched and photographed on location in Australia, Koala includes forty adorable, full-color photographs of these captivating marsupials playing, feeding, resting, and climbing, in captivity and in the wild.
Author: Grace Hansen
Publisher: ABDO
Published: 2019-08-01
Total Pages: 27
ISBN-13: 1532186428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title covers basic information about koalas, one of Australia's cutest marsupials! Information in the title includes a koala's habitat, diet, habitats, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
Author: Martha Hamilton
Publisher: Triangle Interactive, Inc.
Published: 2017-12-13
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 1684440181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead Along or Enhanced eBook: When Tree Kangaroo and Koala dig a well to get some water, Tree Kangaroo ends up doing all of the work and Koala ends up with a stumpy tail in this origin story from Australia.
Author: Roger Martin
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780868405445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRev. ed. of: The koala / Anthony Lee and Roger Martin. 1988.
Author: Emilia Hendrix
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1482437821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKoalas are furry animals that spend lots of time in trees. These cute creatures have one joey at a time, which means mother and baby spend lots of time together while the joey grows. This exciting book takes a look at the lives of mother koalas and their tiny joeys, from their first moments alive and every step along the way as they grow in the pouch of their caring mothers. Accessible text paired with colorful photographs takes beginning readers on a journey to see where these amazing animals live in the wild.
Author: Ann Moyal
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Published: 2008-07-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0643099182
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe koala is both an Australian icon and an animal that has attained ‘flagship’ status around the world. Yet its history tells a different story. While the koala figured prominently in Aboriginal Dreaming and Creation stories, its presence was not recorded in Australia until 15 years after white settlement. Then it would figure as a scientific oddity, despatched to museums in Britain and Europe, a native animal driven increasingly from its habitat by tree felling and human settlement, and a subject of relentless hunting by trappers for its valuable fur. It was not until the late 1920s that slowly emerging protective legislation and the enterprise of private protectors came to its aid. This book surveys the koala’s fascinating history, its evolutionary survival in Australia for over 30 million years, its strikingly adaptive physiognomy, its private life, and the strong cultural impact it has had through its rich fertilisation of Australian literature. The work also focuses on the complex problems of Australia’s national wildlife and conservation policies and the challenges surrounding the environmental, economic and social questions concerning koala management. Koala embraces the story of this famous marsupial in an engaging historical narrative, extensively illustrated from widely sourced pictorial material.
Author: Joel Sartore
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1426217773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book of photography represents National Geographic's Photo Ark, a major cross-platform initiative and lifelong project by photographer Joel Sartore to make portraits of the world's animals -- especially those that are endangered. His message: to know these animals is to save them. Sartore intends to photograph every animal in captivity in the world. He is circling the globe, visiting zoos and wildlife rescue centers to create studio portraits of 12,000 species, with an emphasis on those facing extinction. He has photographed more than 6,000 already and now, thanks to a multi-year partnership with National Geographic, he may reach his goal. This book showcases his animal portraits: from tiny to mammoth, from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. Paired with the prose of veteran wildlife writer Douglas Chadwick, this book presents an argument for saving all the species of our planet.
Author: Pierre Comizzoli
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-08-30
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 3030236331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition emphasizes the environmental impact on reproduction, with updated chapters throughout as well as complete new chapters on species such as sharks and rays. This is a wide-ranging book that will be of relevance to anyone involved in species conservation, and provides critical perspectives on the real utility of current and emerging reproductive sciences. Understanding reproductive biology is centrally important to the way many of the world’s conservation problems should be tackled. Currently the extinction problem is huge, with up to 30% of the world’s fauna being expected to disappear in the next 50 years. Nevertheless, it has been estimated that the global population of animals in zoos encompasses 12,000 – 15,000 species, and we anticipate that every effort will be made to preserve these species for as long as possible, minimizing inbreeding effects and providing the best welfare standards available. Even if the reproductive biology community cannot solve the global biodiversity crisis for all wild species, we should do our best to maintain important captive populations. Reproductive biology in this context is much more than the development of techniques for helping with too little or too much breeding. While some of the relevant techniques are useful for individual species that society might target for a variety of reasons, whether nationalistic, cultural or practical, technical developments have to be backed up by thorough biological understanding of the background behind the problems.
