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Rotten! : vultures, beetles, slime, and nature's other decomposers

by Sanchez, Anita, 1956-

Format: Print Book 2019
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Summary

A funny and fact-filled look at decomposition in all of its slimy glory, illustrated with dazzling full-color art by Gilbert Ford. Vultures, fungi, dung beetles, and more aid in this fascinating and sometimes smelly aspect of the life cycle that's right under our noses.

What's that terrible smell? It's the revolting scent of rot. But being rotten isn't necessarily bad. If nothing ever rotted, nothing new could live.

Decomposition may seem like the last stop on the food chain, but it's just the beginning. When dead plants and animals decay, they give life to a host of other creatures, and each one helps ecosystems thrive.

Decomposition happens in the forest, the ocean--even in your stomach and between your teeth! From vultures and sharks to bacteria, maggots, mushrooms, and more, discover the dirty rotten truth about one of nature's most fascinating processes.

Contents
Dung beetles : rolling rotten
Scavengers : eating rotten
Fungus : slurping rotten
Welcome to the rotten log hotel
The mighty earthworm : moving rotten
What's rotting at your house?
A tale of two sandwich crusts
Rotten people.
Published Reviews
Booklist Review: "The smell of rotten is the sweet scent of life, Sanchez writes, after explaining with only light smears of gross detail the worthy work of dung beetles, fungi, bacteria, earthworms, sharks, vultures, and the teeming residents of the Rotten Log Hotel. Young naturalists will relish the opportunity to learn about cadaverine and putrescene, along with the various processes and expediters of decomposition, and to venture into scientific frontiers with glimpses of recently discovered pollution-eating fungi and of bacteria with a taste for certain plastics. Some of her Rot It Yourself suggestions for general observations or activities may need more unpacking (parents will likely take a dim view of heaping garbage in the yard to make a compost pile, for instance), but she offers a lively general overview to which Ford's informal scenes of wildlife in work clothes, great whites gathering around a picnic basket, and like visual foolery add genial notes. Even readers who don't buy the claim that "decomposition can seem . . . almost magical" will come away appreciating how artfully nature moves in cycles.--John Peters Copyright 2018 Booklist"
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Additional Information
Subjects Biodegradation -- Juvenile literature.
Biodegradation.
Publisher Boston :Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,2019
Contributors Ford, Gilbert, illustrator.
Language English
Description 84 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82) and index.
ISBN 9781328841650
1328841650
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