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Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood (Fylling's Illustrated Guides #2)

Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Nature in Your Neighborhood (Fylling's Illustrated Guides #2)

Current price: $20.00
Publication Date: August 11th, 2020
Publisher:
Heyday Books
ISBN:
9781597144803
Pages:
208
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Description

In the same lighthearted yet scientifically accurate style of Fylling's Illustrated Guide to Pacific Coast Tide Pools, this portable guidebook reveals the splendidly strange animals and plants just outside your door. Marni Fylling's full-color illustrations make species identification a snap, and concise descriptions include fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) factoids about frequently encountered plants, insects, arachnids, birds, and mammals. With Fylling's guidance, the everyday becomes extraordinary: Pigeons share nest-building and egg-sitting duties, and mate for life--with occasional dalliances; squirrel teeth grow about six inches per year; spiders owe their characteristic creep to their "hydraulic" legs; poison oak and poison ivy's itch-inducing oil is also found in pistachios, cashews, and mangoes; and much, much more.