Nursery earth
the wondrous lives of baby animals and the extraordinary ways they shape our world
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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| Language: | English |
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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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