Walk The Rainforest With Niwupah

Join Niwupah, the Hornbill, on a tour of his rainforest home, where the sights we see and the sounds we hear, the scents we smell and the creatures we meet, are like nothing we've ever imagined! A tour guide, introducing children to the sights and sounds of the rainforests.

Children's literature.

Hornbills are among the world’s most distinct birds. Easily recognized by their oversized beaks adorned with large casques, they range from Africa to India and throughout Asia. One of the oldest bird orders, they have been known to mankind for millennia and loom large in the mythology of indigenous cultures of tropical Asia. In the past thirty years, ecologists have uncovered many fascinating aspects of hornbill biology, from their unique nest-sealing behavior to their roles as farmers of the forest. Building on fourteen years of research, Margaret F. Kinnaird and Timothy G. O’Brien offer in Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills the most up-to-date information on the evolution, reproduction, feeding ecology, and movement patterns of thirty-one species of Asian hornbills. The authors address questions of ecological functionality, ecosystem services, and keystone relationships, as well as the disturbing influence of forest loss and fragmentation on hornbills. Complemented by superb full-color images by renowned photographer Tim Laman that provide rare glimpses of hornbills in their native habitat and black-and-white illustrations by Jonathan Kingdon that highlight the intriguing aspects of hornbill behavior, Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills will stand tall in the pantheon of natural history studies for years to come.

Lapalang is a young deer in love with adventure. And one day he sets off, in search of someting different. Not heeding his mother's words, and not listening to the voice inside, telling him 'Beware, beware of the land of the human.'

"Tropical rainforests are amazing places. More kinds of animals and plants live in them than live anywhere else in the world. This one is in Malaysia, in Southeast Asia. Let's go and take a look... The breathtakingly-detailed illustrations are packed with life, from hornbills to gibbons, bats and the much-loved Asian Elephant, while the conversational text expertly weaves in complex biology to show young readers both how life in the jungle is intrinsically linked, and why we must work to protect it"--Publisher's description.

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Networks is a complete graded English course, specially designed for learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). The Networks series aims to make the books user-friendly by using apt-themes, a wealth of stories, factual pieces, plays and poems; graded according to reader appeal to develop English Language skills and their effective usage, and transference of these skills to other curriculum areas. Also available Teacher s Handbooks and web support at www.ratnasagar.co.in

The reader follows the travels of XYZ, the ant, as he explores the lush vegetation and unusual animals that inhabit the rainforest.