Half Hours With the Lower Animals: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Half Hours With the Lower Animals, credited to Charles Holder, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Half Hours With the Lower Animals by Charles Holder. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers This book is devoted to the study of invertebrate animals. While most people associate the word "animal" with fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 90% of the animal species on earth are invertebrates, i.e., they have no backbone. Protozoans and invertebrate animals are found world-wide, from the bottom of the oceans to the the rain forests, ice caves, and our own back yards. Many invertebrates still reside in the oceans, while others dwell in our houses, back yards and gardens, in ponds and streams, and on the menus in seafood restaurants. Holders's book represents a traversal of several dozen familiar and not-so-familiar animals without backbones whose ancestors date back to the Cambrian period 500 million years ago. (Summary by Jefferey Smith)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Half Hours With the Lower Animals
• Author credits: Charles Holder
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 5:08:20

Catalogue topics

• nonfiction
• invertebrate zoology

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 00 - Preface — 4:12
2. 01 - Inhabitants of a Drop of Water — 15:10
3. 02 - The Sponges — 10:49
4. 03 - The Jellyfishes — 18:43
5. 04 - The Sea Anemones — 11:24
6. 05 - The Corals — 14:22
7. 06 - The Stone Lilies — 4:43
8. 07 - The Stars of the Sea — 4:24
9. 08 - Ocean Hedgehogs — 4:49
10. 09 - The Sea Cucumber — 4:48
11. 10 - The Worms — 20:18
12. 11 - The Two-Valved Shells — 23:06
13. 12 - The Univalves — 21:26
14. 13 - The Cuttlefishes — 19:12
15. 14 - The Crustaceans — 4:37
16. 15 - From Barnacles to Lobsters — 9:40
17. 16 - The Crabs — 12:47
18. 17 - Luminous Crabs — 4:20
19. 18 - The Insects — 5:36
20. 19 - Lower Forms of Insects — 5:23
21. 20 - The Spiders — 16:13
22. 21 - Some Six-Legged Insects — 11:57
23. 22 - Some Mimics — 7:38
24. 23 - The Grasshoppers and Locusts — 10:22

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