{"id":1561,"date":"2023-07-24T05:50:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T12:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2023-07-23T15:31:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T22:31:35","slug":"do-fire-ants-fight-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/do-fire-ants-fight-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Fire Ants Fight Fires?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dofireantsfightfiresfc-960x1145.jpg?resize=525%2C626&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"626\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20005\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Do Fire Ants Fight Fires?: How Animals Work in the Wild<\/em><br \/>\nby Etta Kaner (Author) and Jenna Piechota (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3O7m3Tq\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781771474924\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Do dolphins teach? Do birds build apartment buildings? Do tapirs deliver packages? You may be surprised at the answers! Animals have to work hard to survive in the wild.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/dofireantsfightfiresint-960x576.jpg?resize=525%2C315&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20004\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do Fire Ants Fight Fires?: How Animals Work in the Wild by Etta Kaner (Author) and Jenna Piechota (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Do dolphins teach? Do birds build apartment buildings? Do tapirs deliver packages? You may be surprised at the answers! Animals have to work hard to survive in the wild. Snippet: Copyright &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/do-fire-ants-fight-fires\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do Fire Ants Fight Fires?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-pb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1034,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/headstrong-hallie-the-story-of-hallie-morse-daggett-the-first-female-fire-guard\/","url_meta":{"origin":1561,"position":0},"title":"Headstrong Hallie!: The Story of Hallie Morse Daggett, the First Female &#8220;Fire Guard&#8221;","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"March 15, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Headstrong Hallie!: The Story of Hallie Morse Daggett, the First Female \"Fire Guard\" by Aimee Bissonette (Author) and David Hohn (Illustrator) Booktalk: Hallie Morse Daggett loved spending time outdoors, hiking among the tall trees of the forests in California's Siskiyou Mountains. 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