{"id":1676,"date":"2024-09-06T05:56:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T12:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2024-09-05T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:37:53","slug":"menus-for-meerkats-and-other-hungry-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/menus-for-meerkats-and-other-hungry-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Menus for Meerkats and Other Hungry Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/menus-for-meerkats-cover.png?resize=349%2C410&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"410\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22490\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanemiller.com\/menus-for-meerkats.html\">Menus for Meerkats and Other Hungry Animals<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nby Ben Hoare (Author) and Hui Skipp (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Meerkats don\u2019t really need menus, but you can use the ones in this book to discover what ten different kinds of animals in various habitats all over the world like to eat. From blue whales to cobras and from koalas to dung beetles, these dietary habits will amaze you! <\/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\/2024\/09\/menus-for-meerkats-interior-1.png?resize=525%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"306\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22491\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">BONUS! Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kanemiller.com\/uploads\/1\/3\/0\/7\/13072337\/dq_menus_meerkats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discussion Questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s STEM Friday! 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From blue whales to cobras and from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/menus-for-meerkats-and-other-hungry-animals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Menus for Meerkats and Other Hungry Animals&#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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-r2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":746,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/puppies-baby-animals\/","url_meta":{"origin":1676,"position":0},"title":"Puppies (Baby Animals)","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"March 27, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Puppies (Baby Animals) by Jen Besel (Author) Booktalk: From finding food to how to play, baby animals have a lot to learn. 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