How and why do people copy animals?
By: Bobbie Kalman
Series: All about animals close-up
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2015
Place of publication: St. Catharines, Ontario; New York, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9780778714651; 9780778714729; 9781427176370; 9781427176318
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Animal behavior; Juvenile literature; Human-animal relationships
Description: "People have learned a lot from animals and copied many of their ways of surviving. This interesting book details many, often surprising, examples: bird flight and airplanes; defensive equipment such as helmets and turtle shells; strong spiderlike threads for surgeries; camouflage patterns on uniforms or vehicles in battle; and animal prints copied in fashions and decorations."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 23) and index.

Ages 5-8

K to grade 3
Table of contents: title: Why copy animals?; title: Copying their moves; title: Hard shells, hard hats; title: Spider silk and webs; title: Copying coverings; title: Animal communities; title: Following the group; title: Building homes; title: Animals copy people, too.