Burrows

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Describes the different types of mammals, amphibians, and insects that make their home in a burrow.

This book is the only non-fiction book written specifically about the Burrowing Owls of Cape Coral, Florida. It gives the history of Cape Coral and how the owls got there. Learn about the owl's diet, habitat, reproduction, senses, feathers, flight, and more. Even though there may be as many as 3500 owls in the city, navigating around the city's extensive 400-mile canal system can be a challenge, and finding the owls can be equally challenging. This book can serve as your guide. Even if you are not planning on visiting, you will learn how every structure in their body works towards two goals, flight, and eating. Personal stories from the author are scattered throughout the book and wouldn't you want to know why you might find a pair of ladies' underwear in front of a burrow?

This informative title explores what a burrow is and the various types that are used or built by animals. Large photographs are used to show the different animals that dwell in burrows like meerkats, European rabbits, moles, fiddler crabs, groundhogs and more. Each page spread has a simple sentence followed by facts about the animal. The title also includes a comprehension quiz and glossary. Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Adama lives in a time long before recorded history, when the small population of human beings exist at one with nature. Intelligent, they still retain something of the wild animal. The climate is tropical summer, punctuated by a short rainy season that isn’t only a time of constant heavy rain, but also when the Grim appear. These creatures are the reason humans build burrows, to hibernate in during the rainy season. But the Grim have begun to detect these underground burrows and root out their inhabitants. When Adama meets Graf, a traveller from the north, they share a quick sexual encounter before Graf continues on his way. However, the rains have come early this year, and with the threat of the Grim, Graf turns back. They share Adama’s burrow, but even securely tucked away, there are dangers. Who, or what, is banging on the entrance to their burrow? Will Adama and Graf survive to explore their burgeoning friendship?

Based on research in Bolinao, this book assesses the importance of small-scale disturbance by burrowing shrimps. It covers the distribution of burrowing shrimp disturbance, the behavior of the snapping shrimp Alpheus macellarius in situ and as observed from tank experiments, and the effects of short-term burial and leaf clipping on the growth patte

The locater lists in alphabetical order every name in all the Social registers and indicates the family's head under which it may be found and the city in which the name appears.