Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals | TheBookSeekers

Catching Air: Taking the Leap with Gliding Animals


How Nature Works

School year: Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8

No. of pages 48

Published: 2021

Great for age 7-13 years

Add this book to your 'I want to read' list!

By clicking here you can add this book to your favourites list. If it is in your School Library it will show up on your account page in colour and you'll be able to download it from there. If it isn't in your school library it will still show up but in grey - that will tell us that maybe it is a book we should add to your school library, and will also remind you to read it if you find it somewhere else!

North Americas flying squirrels and Australias sugar gliders notwithstanding, the vast majority of them live in rainforests. Illustrated with arresting photographs, Catching Air takes us around the world to meet these animals, learn why so many gliders live in Southeast Asia, and find out why this gravity-defying ability has evolved in Draco lizards, snakes, and frogs as well as mammals. Why do gliders stop short of flying, how did bats make that final leap, and how did Homo sapiens bypass evolution to glide via wingsuits and hang glidersor is that evolution in another guise?

 

 

This book is part of a book series called How Nature Works .

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade-7th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published in 2021 by Tilbury House, U. S. .

 

This book is in the following series:

How Nature Works