Amazing Nature: Dramatic displays

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This series delivers key science curriculum requirements such as adaptation, behaviour, feeding, habitats, lifecycles and migration via interesting and unusual plants and animals. Each book features the plants and animals that best highlight the way nature has adapted to survive in these different areas. Learn about how animals adapt to survive, defend themselves through displays, and how they escape being hunted.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• The message
• Saying hello
• Display of strength
• Warning colors
• Bluffing
• Surprise
• Light show
• Flower power
• Showing off
• Beauty contest
• Courtship
• The greatest shows on Earth
• Fact file

Reviews provided by Syndetics

School Library Journal Review

Gr 3-5-Strange but true facts presented in an oversized format. Displays describes how animals and plants communicate in order to attract a mate or scare off enemies. The use of warning colors, mimicry, camouflage, and displays of strength are mentioned. Feeders focuses on methods of obtaining food and looks at the unique and strange ways that big and small creatures and plants eat and what they consume. Fighters explains why and how conflict occurs in nature. In all three titles, the large, clear, action-packed photos are well matched to the texts and the captions provide additional information. They will attract browsers and recreational readers, but the books do not provide enough information for reports.-Sandra Welzenbach, Villarreal Elementary School, San Antonio, TX (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Horn Book Review

Through a series of double-page spreads, the reader is taken on a tour through an unspecified tropical rainforest. A clear text and inviting color photographs identify unusual animals, trees, and other plants found in this habitat. The volume also addresses the interdependence of the components, making a quietly effective statement for preserving the ecosystem. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.