Animal Classification
Subtitle: Do Cats have Family Trees?
By: Eve Hartman and Wendy Meshbesher
Contributors: Meshbesher, Wendy, author
Series: Show Me Science
Publisher: Raintree
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781406274325
Subjects: Animals; Cats; Juvenile literature; Classification
Description: What are vertebrates? Which primate can fit in the palm of your hand? What do a cat and a fish have in common? In this book, readers are introduced to Fluffy the cat. Learning about Fluffy's family tree helps them to discover how different animals are grouped and classified. Each book in this series provides superb coverage of a science topic with an interesting twist. An exciting, real-life application makes the topic fun, accessible, and shows readers why science matters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Meet Fluffy; title: Classifying life; title: Domains; title: Kingdoms; title: Meet the animals; title: Vertebrates; title: Mammals; title: Orders of mammals; title: Meet the meat-eaters!; title: The cat family; title: Genus and species; title: Fluffy and her family; title: Summary; title: Quiz; title: Glossary; title: Find out more; title: Index