animal defenses

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Amazing armored animals

1992
Introduces a variety of armored animals and describes how they defend themselves with built-in spines, spikes, scales, shells, and other types of outer coverings.

Hiding out

camouflage in the wild
1993
Text and photographs explore how animals use camouflage to survive.

Can you find me?

a book about animal camouflage
1989
Illustrations and text describe how fish, insects, birds, reptiles, and mammals use camouflage to find food, avoid attack, and stay alive in the enemy-filled animal kingdom.

Keeping safe

1989
Photographs and text depict how animals use teeth, claws, spikes, horns, camouflage, poison, and other ways to protect themselves from their enemies.

Animal defenses

how animals protect themselves
1999
Describes the wide variety of defenses animals use to protect themselves from predators.

Animal hide-and-seek

1998
Examines how and why certain birds, insects, and mammals disappear by blending in with their backgrounds.

Searchin' safari

looking for camouflaged creatures
1992
Journey around the world searching for animals camouflaged in their natural environments.

Zoom in on bizarre bugs

2012
"Read about weird and unusual bugs, and see close up images of them"--Provided by publisher.

Deadly adorable animals

2013
Describes twelve cute animals that are actually extremely dangerous, including the golden poison dart frog, bottlenose dolphins, and swans.

Sting!

the scorpion and other animals that sting
2011
This book explains how stinging insects, arachnids, and animals use their pain-inducing appendages to protect themselves.

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