Kirjahaku

Dogs: humans' best friend, and for good reason. Dogs are loyal, smart, friendly and cuddly creatures that we love to welcome into our familes. In this book you will learn many facts about dogs with over 80 full-colour pictures for young learners to enjoy again and again: Dogs are great smellers Their noses are 10,000-100,000 times more powerful than ours. They can help detect sicknesses such as diabetes or cancer, or help the police find illegal drugs or trapped people. Dogs are smart The smartest breeds of dogs can understand up to 250 words and are as smart as a two-year-old child. Dogs are friendly Dogs feel some of the same things as people and get stressed or happy when their owners are. Dogs are cool There are over 200 different breeds of dogs. They can be as small as 1 kg or as big as 68 kg.

Cute and cuddly, kids love to learn about all the animals of the farm. This book has many interesting facts about farm animals, combined with over 80 full color pictures in a book young learners will enjoy again and again. All goats have beards, both male and female. Pigs cool off by rolling around in the mud because they don't sweat. Chickens are the closest living relative to the fearsome dinosaur T-Rex. Cows make friends with other cows in their groups (called "herds").

Humans have lived alongside dogs for millennia, but there's more to them than just tail wags, a love for car rides and chasing tennis balls. It is not surprising that there are so many weird facts and fascinating tales: - A recent poll showed that 33 percent of dog owners talk to their dogs on the phone or leave messages for their pets on answering machines - Before the law requiring pet owners in New York City to scoop up after their dogs, about 40 million pounds of doggie doodoo were left on the streets each year - Laika, a stray dog from Russia, was the first living creature to enter orbit on the Soviet's Sputnik 2 - Dogs really can sense when a person is about to die - Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Pompeii found the remains of a dog laying across a child, apparently trying to protect the youngster from the volcano's deadly eruption - In Oklahoma, you'd better restrain yourself from making faces at a dog--you could be fined, arrested or even jailed - The only dog that does not have a pink tongue is the chow; that breed's tongue is jet black - The fastest dog, the greyhound, can reach speeds of up to 44 miles (70 kilometers) per hour And much more...

Bees are first rate pollinators, they move from flower to flower, carrying the flower's pollen with from the male parts to the female parts of the plant. Bees produce honey, a yummy treat for humans and animals like bears. Bees live in hives and communicate with each other through smell and by dancing. Bees fly at speeds of 16 miles per hour, and can beat their wings 200 times a second. Bees are mysteriously disappearing, in some areas 90% of the bees have disappeared.

There are about 24,000 species of butterflies and 140,000 species of moths in the world. They exist on every continent except Antarctica. A butterfly starts out as an egg, grows into a caterpillar, then it builds a cocoon of silk threads and after a time emerges as a beautiful butterfly. They sip the nectar from plants and help to pollinate while they sip. In the fall, Monarch butterflies fly south from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, over 2,000 miles away, and return in the spring to lay their eggs.

Let's go on safari to darkest Africa where there are the most iconic animals in the world: elephant, lion, cheetah. zebra, gazelle and many more Screen reader support enabled.

They are four legged, furry, and possibly a little drooly, but you'll be happy to know dogs in action are on the job when things get rough From sniffing out bombs or chasing down criminals to finding lost people, these working dogs get the job done. Learn about the many different roles our canine companions fill--including police, military, search and rescue, recovery and narcotic-detecting dogs, to name a few--and which breeds are best suited to which occupation.