habits and behavior

Simple text and pictures show sleeping habits of the koala, leopard, sea otter, and albatross, and of flamingos, bats, and camels.

Describes the habits of ten different animals that store food, including hamsters, leopards, honey ants, and moles.

Describes nineteen animals that have peculiar and strange characteristics, including the platypus which has poison spurs on its legs, the opossum which fools its enemies by pretending to be dead, and the bat which navigates by built-in sonar.

Simple text and pictures describe how different kinds of animals sleep.

Describes the reasons for and instances of cannibalistic behavior in a variety of animals, including guppies, black widow spiders, sharks, gerbils, and brown bears.

Explores the reasons our pets play games with us, analyzes these games, and discusses what we can learn about ourselves and our pets.

Discusses the variety of ways used by insects to communicate. Includes butterflies, ants, bees, termites, and many others.

The busiest life periods and special body parts of fourteen kinds of insects, ranging from field crickets to tent caterpillars, are examined.

Discusses some interesting and unusual animal behavior such as hibernation, homing instincts, and elephants' "burial" of their dead.