You’re just my PUP of tea I WHALEY love you You’re one in a CHAMELEON Show your partner how much you love them with this cute illustrated book, packed with punderful phrases and dreamy quotes.
Sea otters are good indicators of ocean health. In addition, they are a keystone species, offering a stabilizing effect on ecosystem, controlling sea urchin populations that would otherwise inflict damage to kelp forest ecosystems. The kelp forest ecosystem is crucial for marine organisms and contains coastal erosion. With the concerns about the imperiled status of sea otter populations in California, Aleutian Archipelago and coastal areas of Russia and Japan, the last several years have shown growth of interest culturally and politically in the status and preservation of sea otter populations. Sea Otter Conservation brings together the vast knowledge of well-respected leaders in the field, offering insight into the more than 100 years of conservation and research that have resulted in recovery from near extinction. This publication assesses the issues influencing prospects for continued conservation and recovery of the sea otter populations and provides insight into how to handle future global changes. - Covers scientific, cultural, economic and political components of sea otter conservation - Provides guidance on how to manage threats to the sea otter populations in the face of future global changes - Highlights the effects that interactions of coastal animals have with the marine ecosystem
The story of a sea otter, from birth to adulthood, photographed on location in the wild by an award-winning American photographer, who specialises in work with newborn animals.The text will show all the aspects of the animal's life in the wild, accompanied by close-up pictures of the family group in its natural habitat.A spread at the back of the book will give further conservation information, including useful websites.
Based on the popular "Just Joking" department of "National Geographic Kids" magazine, this book contains 1,000 jokes touching on such topics as pets, technology, spooky sensations, adventures, and treasure hunting, accompanied by tons of hilarious photos with silly captions. Full color.
Love can leave you speechless. So let this collection of tender, starry-eyed and passionate quotations do the talking. It’s a beautifully eloquent expression of the power of love, and the perfect gift for the one who has captured your heart.
Sequel to Bear, Otter, and the Kid Bear, Otter, and the Kid survived last summer with their hearts and souls intact. They've moved into the Green Monstrosity, and Bear is finally able to admit his love for the man who saved him from himself. But that's not the end of their story. How could it be? The boys find that life doesn't stop just because they got their happily ever after. There's still the custody battle for the Kid. The return of Otter's parents. A first trip to a gay bar. The Kid goes to therapy, and Mrs. Paquinn decides that Bigfoot is real. Anna and Creed do⦠well, whatever it is Anna and Creed do. There are newfound jealousies, the return of old enemies, bad poetry, and misanthropic seagulls. And through it all, Bear struggles to understand his mother's abandonment of him and his brother, only to delve deeper into their shared past. What he finds there will alter their lives forever and help him realize what it'll take to become who they're supposed to be. Family is not always defined by blood. It's defined by those who make us wholeâthose who make us who we are.
Ellie LeRoux spent her first sixty-nine years struggling, often unsuccessfully, to figure out life. But when she was forced to endure a family crisis that included her husband’s and daughter’s concurrent cancer diagnoses, Ellie embarked on a spiritual journey, with help from her friend, Shirley, that transported her from fear and self-hatred toward love and self-acceptance. In Your Friend, Leyland, Ellie shares a candid story of her experiences through several stages of life. Divided into three parts, Ellie begins by chronicling the first twelve conversations, channeled by Shirley, with the spirit group, Leyland, that include anecdotes, communications with Leyland, and poems penned by Shirley. As Ellie leads others through the next seventeen years of her life, she reveals how she learned to refocus on Leyland’s powerful message, written by or sometimes shared through Shirley. Finally, she shares vignettes of life-affirming insights that radiate Leyland’s message of hope and spiritual growth, ultimately revealing how perceptions color our understanding of ego, spirit, purpose, and reality. Your Friend, Leyland shares the touching story of one woman’s experiences as her loving spirit guide leads her on an unending path of rebirth to seek her higher self.
Evidence pointing to a decline in the European Otter population (Lutra lutra) is causing concern among ecologists and conservationists. This important new book written from direct observation of otter populations in Scotland, is the first attempt at a scientific description of populations and behaviour of this species. This essential research offers a fascinating insight into the ecology of mammals living in a hostile environment and provides a much needed basis for active conservation management.
Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.