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Key Selling Points:
- This STEM title introduces readers to the bats of North America, their biology, habitat and threats to survival. It also gives young readers tools to understand and help bats in their own communities.
- Bats represent 20 percent of all mammal species on Earth and are essential to our ecosystems. Bats eat millions of insects a year. An individual bat can eat up to 1,000 mosquitoes an hour, which keeps our farm fields pest-free and our summer canoe trips bearable.
- Bats are in danger. Of the more than 1,400 bat species on Earth, almost 25 percent are at risk of extinction. They are also making headlines because of threats from wind turbines and invasive fungus.
- Bats are often unknown, misunderstood and feared. They are swathed in myths about rabies, blood-sucking and getting stuck in your hair.
- Neil Griffin is a former wildlife biologist. He studied bats in Canada’s far north, and he was an artist-in-residence for Ocean Network’s Canada.
Key Selling Points:
This STEM title introduces readers to the bats of North America, their biology, habitat and threats to survival. It also gives young readers tools to understand and help bats in their own communities.
Bats represent 20 percent of all mammal species on Earth and are essential ...
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About the author
Neil Griffin is a writer and former wildlife biologist. In his time as a biologist, he caught bats in Northern Canada, counted rhinos in Africa, tracked jaguars in Honduras and hung out with monkeys in Belize. His nature writing has appeared in magazines across Canada, and he is the author of two poetry chapbooks. Neil is an alumnus of the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, a finalist for CBC’s Poetry Prize and an Alberta Magazine Award, and was an artist-in-residence for Ocean Networks Canada, where he was the first writer to ever hold the position. He has an MFA in writing from the University of Victoria and is a teacher on Vancouver Island, where he works with the most dangerous wild animals imaginable: teenagers.
Neil Griffin is a writer and former wildlife biologist. In his time as a biologist, he caught bats in Northern Canada, counted rhinos in Africa, tracked jaguars in Honduras and hung out with monkeys in Belize. His nature writing has appeared in magazines across Canada, and he is the author of two...
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