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Children’s nonfiction / Nature 978-1-56145-695-6 $15.95 www.peachtree-online.com Stockdale

What kinds of animals have stripes? And why do they have them?

To hide more easily?

picture books, including CArry Me! of StripeS All typeS E IP S In this book, you’ll learn that animals AniMAl BABieS on the Move, fABulouS R T PES have stripes for all these reasons… fiSheS, and Bring on the BirdS. I S R yppeeesss and more! her books celebrate nature with TAllllll TTTyyyppes exuberance and charm, and have won Sooffff AAA awards from the American library oo With lyrical, rhyming text and Association, parents' Choice, and the bright, bold images, award-winning national Science teachers Association. author and illustrator Susan Stockdale Susan has always been fascinated by introduces young readers to the many pattern and color, having freelanced ways in which animals around the as a textile designer for the apparel world wear their stripes. An afterword industry before she began creating books. today pattern and color remain tells a bit more about each animal distinctive features of her artwork. and where it lives, and readers can She lives in Maryland with her husband test their knowledge of animal stripes and two patterned cats, and speaks with a fun matching game at the end! frequently at schools and conferences. ISBN 13: 978-1-56145-695-6 Written and Illustrated $15.95 ISBN 10: 1-56145-695-0 Written and Illustrated www.susanstockdale.com by Susanby Susan Stockdale Stockdale

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STRIPESSTRIPES of All Types

For my wonderful siblings, Sally, Ann, and Lee, Stripes of All Types and to the memory of our beloved brother, Grant Stripes of All Types

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Art direction by Loraine M. Joyner Typesetting by Melanie McMahon Ives Written and Illustrated by The illustrations were created in acrylic on paper.

On the front cover and endpapers: striped skunk Susan Stockdale On the back cover: common zebra

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ISBN 978-1-56145-695-6 / 1-56145-695-0

Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress. Stripes found in water, sliding through weeds. Drinking from rivers, and darting through reeds. Toting a shell, twisting on sand. Sprawled in a lair, and sprinting on land. Prowling the prairie, perched on a peak. Crawling on cactus, and camped by a creek. Propped on a log, poised on a leaf. Scaling a ridge, and scouting a reef. Stripes found in forests, stripes found on farms. Stripes found with children, curled in their arms. Stinging tentacles on the adult Stripes on the zebra moray eel The black and yellow stripes on the Many fishes, such as the striped purple-striped jellyfish can kill may help it blend with its surroundings cactus bee may serve as a warning surgeonfish, sixline wrasse, and or paralyze prey. Its brightly colored and recognize other eels of its own to predators. If threatened, the bee oriental sweetlips, have colorful stripes may alert predators to stay kind. Its stripes increase in number will defend itself by injecting venom stripes that identify them to other away. (California coast of the Pacific as it grows larger. (Indo-Pacific Ocean from its stinger. (North and South fishes of their own kind and may also Ocean; invertebrate) and Red Sea; fish) America; arthropod) help camouflage them among the coral reefs. (Indo-Pacific Ocean; fish) The tiger, the largest wildcat in The striped pattern on the eastern the world, has stripes that allow it to A baby Malayan tapir has stripes White, horizontal stripes on the garter snake helps it go unseen hide among tall grasses as it stalks its to help it hide in the forest. As the legs of the okapi help it hide from while it slithers along the grassy prey. (South and Southeast Asia, tapir grows up, the stripes fade away. predators in the dense jungle. This ground. (North America; reptile) China, and the Russian Far East; (Southeast Asia; mammal) rare forest giraffe is a fast runner mammal) and a good jumper. (Africa; mammal)

The ring-tailed lemur uses its Black and white stripes on the distinctive black-and-white striped tail common zebra make it hard Bright stripes on the phantasmal To attract a female, the male turkey to communicate, sometimes raising it for predators to distinguish a single poison frog are a signal to potential displays his striped, fan-shaped tail like a flag to keep group members animal from the herd. No two predators that it is toxic. Scientists feathers and produces a distinctive together. (Madagascar, off the coast zebras’ stripes are exactly alike. have used the poison produced by gobble that can be heard a mile of Africa; mammal) (Africa; mammal) this frog to help develop effective away. (North America; bird) painkillers for humans. (South Striped feathers on the American Two black stripes help conceal the America; amphibian) bittern help camouflage it among eyes of the American badger, the dense reed beds in which it lives. making it less visible to its enemies Stripes on the wings of the zebra The mackerel tabby and some Though its call is booming, the bird as it hunts for food in the tall prairie swallowtail butterfly create other domestic cats retain the prefers to stay hidden. (North and grass. (North America; mammal) visual confusion for predators, so striped pattern of the African wildcat, Central America; bird) they don’t know which part of the their direct ancestor. (worldwide; butterfly’s body to attack. (North mammal) America; arthropod) The Florida tree snail lives on Vertical white stripes on the bongo smooth-barked hardwood trees break up its body outline so that it and feeds on the fungi and algae blends with its wooded surroundings. The striped skunk has bold that grow there. The reason for (Africa; mammal) stripes that warn other animals to its swirling stripes is unknown. stay away. When a skunk is threat- (Southeastern United States; ened, it produces an oily, smelly mollusk) spray that repels most predators. (North America; mammal) Can you find the animals

S that belong to these STRIPES? American badger American purple-striped jellyfish purple-striped turkey

American bittern American ring-tailed lemur ring-tailed zebra swallowtail butterfly swallowtail zebra cactus bee cactus okapi eastern garter snake garter eastern

zebra moray eel moray zebra Florida tree snail tree Florida common zebra common bongo striped surgeonfish striped tiger

Turn the book upside down

to read the correct answers.

mackerel tabby mackerel phantasmal poison frog poison phantasmal Malayan tapir Malayan striped skunk striped I am grateful to many scientists at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History for their valuable research assistance. They include Dr. Allen Collins, Dr. Kevin de Queiroz, Dr. Carla Dove, Dr. Jerry Harasewych, Mr. Gary F. Hevel, Dr. Dave Johnson, and Dr.Victor G. Springer.

I am especially thankful to Dr. Kristofer Helgen, also of the National Museum of Natural History, for his help regarding the many mammals in this book.