Baby Sea Turtle San Diego Zoo

This title is suitable for children of ages 18 months to 5 years. With text approved by the animal authorities at Sea World, photographs provided by the parks, and the well-known Sea World brand on the cover, this new marine animal series is sure to be great. This book contains interesting facts with fun pictures of Baby Sea Turtles.

With hard shells that protect them from predators, turtles are among the oldest group of reptiles. Readers will discover that sea turtles rarely leave the water except to lay eggs in the sand. They will read about freshwater turtles that love to soak up the sun on logs or rocks. What most people don't know is that the temperature of the turtle's nest determines whether the babies are male or female. Interesting facts and stunning photographs are sure to open the door for discussions about habitat, predators, and various other science-related topics.

Turtles have swum and snapped their ways into kids' hearts. With this book, readers can become turtle experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton! Did you know that a turtle named Jonathan is the oldest known living animal on Earth? (He’s almost two hundred!) How about that the largest sea turtles can dive more than three thousand feet below the water’s surface? Or that turtles’ shells have a spine in them, which makes turtles vertebrates—just like humans? Perfect for all animal lovers—and turtle fans in particular—this book is filled with all the facts you need to know to become a turtle expert! Where are turtles found? What’s it like to be a turtle? Why are turtles endangered, and who has been working hard to save them? Read this book and find out how you can help save the turtles! Complete with black-and-white photographs, a list of fun turtle facts, and things that kids can do right this very moment to help save turtles from extinction, this book, with an introduction by animal advocate Chelsea Clinton, is a must for every family, school, and community library.

Suitable for toddlers and ages upwards, this illustrated title contains text approved by the animal authorities at SeaWorld and photographs provided by the parks. It includes: the dolphins - the clowns of the sea; the sea lions - the clowns of circuses everywhere; and, the killer whale - made cuddly by Shamu the star of SeaWorld.

Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over five decades and six continents. In 1965, Hank Molt, a young cheese salesman from Philadelphia, reinvented himself as a “specialist dealer in rare fauna,” traveling the world to collect exquisite reptiles for zoos and museums. By the end of the decade that followed, new endangered species laws had turned Molt into a convicted smuggler, and an unrepentant one, who went on to provide many of the same rare reptiles to many of the same institutions, covertly. But Molt soon found a rival in Tommy Crutchfield, a Florida carpet salesman with every intention of usurping Molt as the most accomplished reptile smuggler in the country. Like Molt, Crutchfield had modeled himself after an earlier generation of natural-history collectors celebrated for their service to science, an ideal that, for Molt and Crutchfield, eclipsed the realities of the new wildlife-protection laws. Zoo curators, caught between a desire for rare animals and the conservation-minded focus of their institutions, became the smugglers’ antagonists in court but also their best customers, sometimes simultaneously. Crutchfield forged ties with a criminally inclined Malaysian wildlife trader and emerged a millionaire, beloved by some of the finest zoos in the world. Molt, following a string of inventive but disastrous smuggling schemes in New Guinea, was reduced to hanging around Crutchfield’s Florida compound, plotting Crutchfield’s demise. The fallout from their feud would result in a major federal investigation with tentacles in Germany, Madagascar, Holland, and Malaysia. And yet even after prison, personal ruin, and the depredations of age, Molt and Crutchfield never stopped scheming, never stopped longing for the snake or lizard that would earn each his rightful place in a world that had forgotten them—or rather, had never recognized them to begin with.

The story of Emily, the Baby Sea Turtle begins with her birth on a beach in Mexico. After she leaves her egg, she meets a small girl who carries her to the sea. But huge waves toss Emily back onto the sandy beach, where she is threatened by animal predators. As Emily struggles to reach the sea, the hot sun almost overcomes her. Miraculously, her small friend appears once again to help her return to the ocean. This book, written in English and Spanish, is fascinating for readers of any age who love animals and want to learn more about sea turtles. The author, who works with a Mexican sea turtle conservation program, follows the birth and return to the sea of an endangered Olive Ridley hatchling and describes the protection practices that save her. The first book in this series is Anny, The Sea Turtle. In this story Anny, Emilys mother, makes the difficult journey to her nesting place in Mexico.

"Join Diego on a nighttime beach expedition to see baby sea turtles hatch! Along the way Diego shares fun facts about leatherback sea turtles and how you can help them!"--P. [4] of cover.