Extreme rainforest : amazing encounters with incredible animals

Title
Extreme rainforest : amazing encounters with incredible animals

Summary
Describes some of the animals that live in rain forests around the world, including tigers, sloths, river dolphins, and piranhas, and details the challenges each animal faces from deforestation and environmental changes to the rain forest.

Other Title
Subtitle on cover: Amazing encounters with incredible animals

Year Published
2011

Physical Description
47 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 22 x 30 cm.

Note
Subtitle from cover.
 
Includes glossary.

Contents
Meet the beasts -- Green basilisk lizard -- Black jaguar -- African gray parrot -- Three-toed sloth -- Rainforests of the world -- Tamandua -- Emerald tree boa -- Giant centipede -- Strawberry poison frog -- Red-bellied piranha -- Common vampire bat -- Tiger -- Hide and seek -- Brazilian salmon pink -- Green anaconda -- Sugar glider -- Harpy eagle -- Boto -- Rainforest challenge.

Subject
Rain forest animals.
 
Rain forest ecology.
 
Rain forests.
 
Ecology.
 
Animals -- Rain forest
 
Rainforest
 
animals in rainforest

Summary
Describes some of the animals that live in rain forests around the world, including tigers, sloths, river dolphins, and piranhas, and details the challenges each animal faces from deforestation and environmental changes to the rain forest.

ISBN
9780545347396

Publisher
New York : Scholastic/Weldon Owen, c2011.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Stratford578.73 PARBook30577000261637Non-Fiction