Nursery earth
the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world
Book - 2023
"An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"--
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New York :
The Experiment,
[2023]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Nursery earth : |b the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world / |c Danna Staaf ; foreword by Richard Strathmann. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b The Experiment, |c [2023] | |
| 300 | |a ix, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 22 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-251) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "An astonishing safari of infant animals, from baby kangaroos to flamingos to squid, and the essential role they play in Earth's ecosystems"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: A world of the babies, by the babies, for the babies -- Bundles of joy. Eggs: not just a bird thing -- Provisioning: from edible siblings to algal life-support -- Brooding eggs: carry them, sit on them, swallow them whole -- Pregnancy: not just a mammal thing -- Salad days. Unaccompanied minors: where do the escargot? -- It's just a phase: why babies look like aliens -- Lessons from larvae: how evolution shaped development and vice versa -- Raising them right: conservation and sustainability -- Coming of age. Metamorphosis: but happier than Kafka -- Juveniles: neither one thing nor another -- Emergence: a cicada case study -- Epilogue: Our quiet dependence on babies. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Animals |x Infancy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Animal behavior. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Parental behavior in animals. | |
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