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This intimate and unprecedented look at butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, bats and flowers is a celebration of life, as a third of the world's food supply depends on these incredible and increasingly threatened creatures. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg, 'Wings of Life' utilizes riveting high-speed, closer-than-close filmmaking techniques to showcase in spectacular detail these unsung heroes of our planet.

"La colección Otros monstruos está llena de seres extraños. Son Otros monstruos porque tienen una apariencia terrorífica aunque no siempre causen pánico; tienen aspecto de malos, pero en realidad no lo son tanto. En esta colección encontrarás divertidas historias repletas de aventuras y desventuras protagonizadas por vampiros, una serpiente marina, una maestra bruja, un hombre lobo, un gigante, el coco, algunos fantasmas, un dragón vegetariano,...

Swarms of genetically altered bats have descended upon a sleepy small Texan town and no one is safe. The only hope to stop the growing tide of bloody devastation is a zoologist who studies bats, her assistant, and the local sheriff.

When Geronimo Stilton, editor of "The Rodent's Gazette," gets a mysterious phone call from his cousin Trap, he takes Thea and Benjamin along to Transratania, believing that Trap is awaiting rescue somewhere in the castle of Count von Ratoff.

Manny the vampire bat loves scaring other animals, but after he loses his baby fangs, he makes an important discovery.

After a long, hard winter in Dimwood forest, Poppy the deer mouse finds new adventure thrust upon her while rescuing Ereth the porcupine from the mud.

A famous author is coming to visit and Eva and her classmates are assigned to write a story--but Eva Wingdale is totally distracted because her pet bat, Baxter, has gone missing, and she suspects that the sneaky squirrels have something to do with her missing pet.

When Danny and Wendell find an injured bat at the neighborhood pool, they take it to Mexico where Danny's cousin, a bat specialist lives, but once there Danny is snatched up by a giant bat monster, and it is up to Wendell to save him.

The Mexican free-tailed bat is one of the most abundant mammals in North America. Outside of San Antonio, Texas there is a cave that is home to over 40 million of these bats. Roosting in large numbers in relatively few areas makes them especially vulnerable to human disturbance and habitat destruction. Documented declines at some roosts are cause for concern because there is a delicate balance in the ecosystem that depends on the bats. There is also...

Princess Breeze invites her human friend, Cressida, to attend the Blast, a festival featuring kite flying, but the wizard-lizard, Ernest, has blundered again and now giant bats sleep on the kites.