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2) Symbiosis
Author
Series
Publisher
Twenty-First Century
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the three kinds of symbiosis--mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism--and describes examples of these relationships.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the symbiotic relationships between various animals and plants includes profiles of such pairs as the plover bird and crocodile, and explains how one or both creatures benefit from their unusual partnerships.
Author
Language
English
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Description
This book lets us peer into the world of microbes--not as germs to be eradicated, but as invaluable parts of our lives--allowing us to see how ubiquitous and vital microbes are: they sculpt our organs, defend us from disease, break down our food, educate our immune systems, guide our behavior, bombard our genomes with their genes, and grant us incredible abilities. While much of the prevailing discussion around the microbiome has focused on its implications...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In The Secret Wisdom of Nature, master storyteller and international sensation Peter Wohlleben takes readers on a thought-provoking exploration of the vast natural systems that make life on Earth possible. In this tour of an almost unfathomable world, Wohlleben describes the fascinating interplay between animals and plants and answers such questions as: How do they influence each other? Do lifeforms communicate across species boundaries? And what...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The author repeatedly visits a dozen trees around the world to stop, listen, and look, exploring each tree's connections with webs of fungi, bacterial communities, cooperative and destructive animals, and other plants, and demonstrating how the lives of trees and people are deeply interwoven. Several trees, including a balsam fir in Ontario and an Amazonian ceibo, are located in areas that seem mostly natural, but which are affected by industrial...
Author
Publisher
Debate Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
El cuerpo humano alberga billones de microbios que conforman todo un mundo en simbiosis con su entorno. Estos microscópicos y multitudinarios compañeros vitales no solo moldean nuestros órganos, nos protegen de enfermedades, e influyen en nuestro comportamiento, sino que resultan clave a la hora de entender el funcionamiento de la vida. En "Yo contengo multitudes" Ed Yong nos abre los ojos y nos invita con su erudición y sentido del humor a mirarnos...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A talkative cattle egret explains to a rhinoceros that in addition to having a symbiotic relationship, they also have a friendship built on communication, kindness, and a respect for boundaries.
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Unselfishness is the rule. Everything ants do is for their colony's good. This film explores the world of ant colonies. They can be found almost everywhere on the planet, and have existed in some form back almost to the time of the earliest living things. Dr. Edward O. Wilson argues that the instinctive behavior of ants, particularly their tendency to live in large colonies, have made it possible for ants to survive in most conditions. The program...
16) Animal BFFs
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Learn all about the funniest friendships in the animal kingdom with Sophie Corrigans cute and cuddly artwork. Learn that even animals have best friends in this follow-up to The Not Bad Animals. Someone that's always there for them through thick and thin, to help them out with all of the usual things that friends do. You know, like picking ticks off your back, letting you know when a lion is about to make you its dinner and helping you hunt down some...
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