Information on rhinoceroses, including their habitats, food, and activities, as well as information about their endangered status. Also included are mini-modules on debate strategies and debate topics specific to rhinoceroses.
Simple text and photographs introduce endangered and extinct reptiles, including the tiger chameleon, the hawksbill turtle, and several of the dinosaurs.
Simple text and photographs introduce endangered and extinct fish, including the winter skates, the bocaccio rockfish, the cape seahorse, the megalodon and the eobothus.
Simple text and photographs introduce endangered and extinct amphibians, including the Hewitt ghost frog, the arroyo toad, the Chinese giant salamander, the devil frog, the orange-bellied newt, and more.
a sometimes dismaying, weirdly reassuring story about looking at people looking at animals in America
Mooallem, Jon
2013
The journey is framed by the stories of three modern-day endangered species: the polar bear, victimized by climate change and ogled by tourists outside a remote northern town; the little-known Lange?s metalmark butterfly, foundering on a shred of industrialized land near San Francisco; and the whooping crane as it?s led on a months-long migration by costumed men in ultralight airplanes. The wilderness that Wild Ones navigates is a scrappy, disorderly place where amateur conservationists do grueling, sometimes preposterous-looking work; where a marketer maneuvers to control the polar bear?s image while Martha Stewart turns up to film those beasts for her show on the Hallmark Channel. Our most comforting ideas about nature unravel. In their place, Mooallem forges a new and affirming vision of the human animal and the wild ones as kindred creatures on an imperfect planet.
Although the landowner for whom his father works as a gamekeeper hates all birds of prey, Taylor and his friend raise an endangered red kite in secret.
