Title:
Guide to God's animals
Author:
Sherwin, Frank J., author.
ISBN:
9780736965422
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
117 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Animals in God's creation -- Creation of the animals -- Basic animal types -- Are humans animals? -- Charles Darwin -- Variation within animal kinds -- Designed to swim -- Jellyfish : an animal with no brain -- Sharks : vertebrates with no bones -- Rays and skates : marine animals with wings -- Dolphins, whales, and porpoises -- Animals on the Ark -- Designed for flight -- Dragonflies -- Bees : hard workers of the animal kingdom -- Designed for moving on land -- Tigers : big cats, small numbers -- Elephants : the largest land mammals -- Horses : animals built for work -- Dogs : "man's best friend" -- Curious cats -- Snakes : limbless land animals -- Monkeys of the "Old" and "New" Worlds -- The greater and lesser apes -- Arachnids : animals with eight limbs -- Industrious ants -- Penguins : flightless birds of the Southern Hemisphere -- Sheep : animals that show God's provision -- Dinosaurs : "terrible lizards" -- Tyrannosaurus Rex : the "tyrant lizard" -- Pterosaurs : "winged lizards" -- Extinct marine reptiles -- Fossilized animals -- What animals eat -- Breathing and respiration -- How animals see -- Animal hearing -- How animals communicate -- Incredible eggs -- Animal exoskeletons -- Animal teeth -- Animal bones -- Camouflage : animals hiding in plain sight -- Bioluminescence : natural light in animals -- Echolocation : animals seeing with sound -- Migration : mass animal movements -- Hibernation : animals conserving energy -- Extreme habitats -- Fast animals -- Rainforest animals -- Threatened animals.
Abstract:
"Whether it flies, swims, slithers, gallops, or swings through the trees, each animal was created by the Lord to be unique and designed for its own habitat"--Page [4] of Cover.