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Bionic Beasts: Saving Animal Lives with Artificial Flippers, Legs, and Beaks
Contributor(s): Gutiérrez, Jolene (Author)
ISBN: 1541589408     ISBN-13: 9781541589407
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
OUR PRICE:   $30.39  
Product Type: Library Binding - Other Formats
Published: October 2020
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Temporarily out of stock - Will ship within 2 to 5 weeks
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals - Animal Welfare
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Technology - Inventions
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living - Physical Impairments
Dewey: 636.089
LCCN: 2019050146
Lexile Measure: 1150
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.2" W x 10.2" (0.90 lbs) 48 pages
 
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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. Each of these animals was struggling, but through a variety of techniques and technologies, humans created devices that enabled the animals to live and move more comfortably. Discover the stories of how veterinarians, doctors, and even students from around the world used 3D printing and other techniques to build bionic body parts for these amazing animals.