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Animal
Pollinators

by Jennifer Boothroyd

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Boothroyd, Jennifer, 1972

Animal pollinators / by Jennifer Boothroyd.
pages cm. (First step nonfiction. Pollination)
Includes index.
ISBN 9781467757416 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)
ISBN 9781467762236 (eBook)
1. PollinationJuvenile literature. 2. Pollination by animalsJuvenile literature. I. Title.

II. Series: First step nonfiction. Pollination.
QK926.B65 2015
571.8642dc23 2014017713

Manufactured in the United States of America
1 CG 12/31/14

Table of Contents

Pollination

Flowers make pollen. Most
pollen looks like yellow dust.

These are
sunflower seeds.

Flowers use pollen to grow
seeds.

carpel

Pollination happens when pollen
moves into a flowers carpel.
Then the flower can make seeds.

Pollinators help pollen move
to a flowers carpel. Many
animals are pollinators.

How Do Animals Pollinate?

Some animals drink nectar
from flowers.

Nectar tastes
sweet.

Animals get nectar with
their tongues.

Bats drink nectar from
flowers.

Pollen sticks to the bat.

The pollen rubs off on the
flowers carpel.

Kinds of Animal Pollinators

Bats are one kind of
animal pollinator. But there
are many others.

Honey possums
live in Australia.

Honey possums pollinate
flowers.

Lemurs live in
Madagascar.

Lemurs pollinate flowers.

Pollen sticks to
this lizards scales.

Some small lizards pollinate
flowers.

Pollen sticks to the
doves feathers.

Doves pollinate flowers.

Many honeycreepers
live in Hawaii.

Honeycreepers pollinate
flowers.

Hummingbirds pollinate
flowers.

Human Pollinators

Humans also pollinate
flowers.

Hand- pollination can help
plants grow better fruit.

It takes a lot of helpful
animals and humans to
pollinate flowers.

Glossary

carpel a part of a flower
that stores eggs

nectar a sweet liquid made
in flowers

pollen a powder made
inside flowers

pollinators animals, humans,
or wind that pollinate
flowers

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