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Focus on Nature

Comes in 2 formats, fully illustrated:
135-word (approximate) and

300-500 words (limited selection)
color or black & white

Connect to the natural world!

Presented from the animal's perspective, readers learn:
* what the animal looks like
* how his appearance helps him
* what his house is made of
* where he lives and what the surroundings are like
* what he likes to eat
* how his family is raised
* what predators and other factors challenge his survival


Email Rochelle to learn how to include
Focus on Nature in your publication. 

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Focus on Nature

FOCUS ON NATURE is a weekly, illustrated column giving insight into the lives of animals from our own backyards to halfway around the world. With 2 formats available, these entertaining life stories written from the animal's perspective can be delivered to the publisher's inbox every week.

San Clemente loggerhead shrike column
135-word format

long version Focus on Nature column
300-500 word format  (Click here to view larger pdf version)

FOCUS ON NATURE columns available as of 9/2/09:

Mammals
Amargosa vole 
Anastasia Island beach mouse 
Andean mountain cat
Asian golden cat
Black-footed ferret
 
Black rhinoceros 
Carolina northern flying squirrel 
Columbian white-tailed deer 
Delmarva Peninsula fox squirrel 
Fishing cat
Florida manatee
 
Florida panther 
Giant kangaroo rat 
Giant panda 
Gray whale 
Gray wolf 
Grizzly bear 
Humpback whale 
'Ilio holo i ka uaua (Hawaiian monk seal) 
Iriomote yamaneko (mountain cat)
Jaguar 
Lesser long-nosed bat 
Louisiana black bear
Margay
Mexican long-nosed bat 
Northern right whale 
'Ope'ape'a (Hawaiian hoary bat)
Pallas' cat
Point Arena mountain beaver

Salt marsh harvest mouse
Sand cat
San Joaquin kit fox
 

Snow leopard 
Sonoran pronghorn 
Southern sea otter 
Sperm whale 
Steller sea lion 
Stephen's kangaroo rat 
Utah prairie dog 
Woodland caribou
Birds 
Ae'o (Hawaiian black-necked stilt) 
'Akiapola'au
'Akikiki 
'Akohekohe 
'Alae ke'oke'o (Hawaiian coot) 
'Alae'ula (Hawaiian common moorhen)  
'Alala (Hawaiian crow) 
Aleutian Canada goose 
American peregrine falcon 
Attwater's greater prairie chicken 
Audubon's crested caracara 
Bald eagle 
Black-capped vireo 
California brown pelican 
California clapper rail 
California condor 
California least tern 
Coastal California gnatcatcher
Hawai'i 'akepa 
Hawai'i creeper 
Inyo California towhee 
'I'iwi 
'Io (Hawaiian hawk) 
Kaua'i 'O'o 
Kirtland's warbler 
Koloa maoli (Hawaiian duck)
Laysan duck 
Least Bell's vireo 
Light-footed clapper rail 
Marbled murrelet 
Masked bobwhite 
Maui parrotbill 
Moloka'i creeper 
Nene (Hawaiian goose) 
Newell's shearwater
Nihoa finch
 
 
Nihoa millerbird
Northern spotted owl 
Nuku pu'u
O'ahu 'elepaio
Oloma'o (Moloka'i thrush)
'O'u
Palau ground dove 
Palila 
Piping plover 
Po'ouli 
Puaiohi
Pueo (Hawaiian short-eared owl)
 
Red-cockaded woodpecker 
San Clemente loggerhead shrike
Southwestern willow flycatcher
 
Spectacled eider 
'Ua'u (Hawaiian dark-rumped petrel) 
Western snowy plover 
Whooping crane 
Wood stork
Insects
American burying beetle 
Blackburn's sphinx moth 
Delta green ground beetle 
El Segundo blue butterfly
Eupithecia

Flying earwig Hawaiian damselfly
Hawai'i damselflies
Koa bug
 

Lange's metalmark butterfly
Lava flow cricket
Lotis blue butterfly
Mission blue butterfly
Picture-winged drosophila
Puritan tiger beetle
San Bruno elfin butterfly 
Valley elderberry longhorn beetle 
Wekiu bug 
Arachnids
Bee Creek Cave harvestman 
Kaua'i cave wolf spider 
Tooth Cave spider 
Reptiles
Alabama redbelly turtle 
American crocodile 
Atlantic salt marsh snake 
Blue-tailed mole skink 
Blunt-nosed leopard lizard 
Desert tortoise 
Eastern indigo snake 
Green sea turtle 
Hawksbill sea turtle 
Leatherback sea turtle 
Loggerhead sea turtle 
Olive Ridley sea turtle
San Francisco garter snake

Amphibians
California red-legged frog 
Desert slender salamander 
Houston toad 
Santa Cruz long-toed salamander 
Texas blind salamander 
Crustaceans
California freshwater shrimp 
Kaua'i cave amphipod 
Nashville crayfish 
Shasta crayfish 
Fishes
Coho salmon 
Greenback cutthroat trout 
Lahontan cutthroat trout 
'O'opu hi'ukole (Hawaiian goby) 
Steelhead trout 
Snails
Iowa Pleistocene snail 
Newcomb's snail 
O'ahu tree snail