Four Wings and a Prayer: Caught in the Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly
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ISBN: 037540208X / Publisher: Pantheon, May 2001
Chronicles the odyssey of the monarch butterfly, which, each year, flies thousands of miles to its breeding and wintering grounds in Mexico's Neovolcanic Mountains.
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Every autumn monarch butterflies make astonishing migrations: Those born west of the Rocky Mountains typically make their way to the Pacific Coast. But the butterflies born east of the Rocky Mountains do the truly unimaginable; starting as far north as Canada, they fly thousands of miles to Mexico. Memory is not their guide - no one butterfly makes the round-trip - but each year millions find their way to the same fifty forested acres in Mexico's Neovolcanic Mountains.
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