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"Whenever you hear the sky rumble, that usually means a storm. In Virgil Flowers' case, make that two. The first storm comes from, of all places, the Minnesota zoo. Two large, and very rare, Amur tigers have vanished from their cage, and authorities are worried sick that they've been stolen for their body parts. Traditional Chinese medicine prizes those parts for home remedies, and people will do extreme things to get what they need. Some of them...
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Honey badger chronicles volume 5
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"Emily "Tock" Lepstein-Jackson is on a mission to rid the world of shifters trafficking humans for hunting and cash. And now that she's narrowed down her suspects to a brutal coalition of male lions, nothing will get between this honey badger and her prey--not even a dog-loving tiger with absolutely no time management skills. Doesn't matter that Shay Malone is ferociously adorable. With a war brewing between cat families, Tock doesn't have time to...
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Ecology: nature's delicate balance: Students learn what environmental organizations are doing to protect Earth's plant and animal life.
Koalas saved: Environmentalists in Australia push for a National Koala Act to help protect one of the country's iconic animals.
Parrot genepool: Conservationists try to keep rare parrots alive in captivity as their numbers dwindle in the wild.
Right whale lanes: Endangered North Atlantic right whales migrate to...
8) Great soul of Siberia: passion, obsession, and one man's quest for the world's most elusive tiger
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In The Great Soul of Siberia, renowned tiger researcher Sooyong Park tracks three generations of Siberian tigers living in remote southeastern Russia. Reminiscent of the way Timothy Treadwell (the so-called Grizzly Man) immersed himself in the lives of bears, Park sets up underground bunkers to observe the tigers, living thrillingly close to these beautiful but dangerous apex predators. At the same time, he draws from twenty years of experience and...
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Meet the biggest cat in the world--the Siberian tiger! Everything about this title is big, from the full-bleed photographs to the content. Readers will learn all that is super-sized about this amazing ocean mammal. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.--