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Bats that eat insects--

2001
Describes the habitats, diets, and life cycles of insect-eating bats, discusses bat myths and conservation, and explains how to build a bat house.

Food & feasts with the Vikings

1995
A social history of the Viking peoples in Europe, explaining what foods were eaten and how they were prepared or cooked. Includes information about events that brought special celebrations and feasts.

Feeding our feathered friends

1997
Provides step-by-step instructions on building a backyard birdfeeder and explains which birds like which kinds of food, the best times to fill feeders, and how to keep squirrels away.

Catching a meal

1994
Colorful photographs and text tell of the ways animals use to get food.

Lunch boxes

1991
It's lunchtime at Oak Hill School, and all the children go the lunchroom, but once they sit down to eat, their food goes everywhere but in their mouths.

What do I eat?

1993
Explains the diet and feeding habits of such animals as the hippopotamus, leopard slug, and pelican.

Catching fire

how cooking made us human
2009
Explores the evolutionary gains for humans that resulted from cooking, and discusses how early ancestry adapted to use fire to cook raw foods, which altered the human digestive tract and enlarged the brain.

Foods of the Maya

a taste of the Yucatan
1994
A collection of recipes from Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, with historical and cultural information on the region.

Mealtime for zoo animals

1999
Photographs and simple text describe the wide variety of foods eaten by animals in the zoo.

Birds

the plant- and seed-eaters
1989
Provides brief descriptions of birds that eat plants or seeds.

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