Tongues and Tails

By Theresa Greenaway

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811482715
• ISBN13: 9780811482714
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Steck-Vaughn
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The diversity of these appendages in the animal kingdom

In the animal kingdom, there are a wide variety of different functions that tongues and tails provide. We are all aware that tongues are used to move food into and around the mouth. However, there are many more uses. Specialized tongues are used to lure and capture prey, grab the food, sometimes by wrapping around it; sometimes it is a tube to suck food and other times food is captured when it is stuck to it. Tails are even more versatile. Some animals use them as an additional appendage, others use theirs to communicate, defend themselves, lure mates, as blankets, and even as an ever present source of shade. Written for the young reader at the middle school level, this book chronicles all of these uses for these appendages. There is a diagram of each animal mentioned with an emphasis on how the appendage is used. I strongly recommend this book as it demonstrates the wide diversity that is found in the animal kingdom. I was biology major in college and there were some uses illustrated in the book that were news to me. In the animal kingdom, there are a wide variety of different functions that tongues and tails provide. We are all aware that tongues are used to move food into and around the mouth. However, there are many more uses. Specialized tongues are used to lure and capture prey, grab the food, sometimes by wrapping around it; sometimes it is a tube to suck food and other times food is captured when it is stuck to it. Tails are even more versatile. Some animals use them as an additional appendage, others use theirs to communicate, defend themselves, lure mates, as blankets, and even as an ever present source of shade. Written for the young reader at the middle school level, this book chronicles all of these uses for these appendages. There is a diagram of each animal mentioned with an emphasis on how the appendage is used. I strongly recommend this book as it demonstrates the wide diversity that is found in the animal kingdom. I was biology major in college and there were some uses illustrated in the book that were news to me.