Bionic Beasts: Saving Animal Lives with Artificial Flippers, Legs, and Beaks

by Jolene Gutiérrez

Book Overview

What happens when a young elephant steps on a buried land mine? What happens when a sea turtle's flipper is injured by a predator? Thanks to recent advances in technology, we have new ways to design and build prosthetic body parts that can help these animals thrive.

Meet an Asian elephant named Mosha, a Kemp's ridley sea turtle named Lola, a German Shepherd named Cassidy, a greylag goose named Vit ria, and Pirate, a Berkshire-Tamworth pig...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541589408
• ISBN13: 9781541589407
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9