animal behavior

An introduction to animal senses that discusses different kinds of eyes, smell, taste, touch, hearing, echolocation, and super senses.

Explores twenty questions about animal adaptation, covering such topics as hibernation, camouflage, and habitats.

Explains how different animals obtain their food, protect themselves, court a mate, care for their eggs and their young, and live together. Includes profiles of animal behaviorists and research methods they have used.

A collection of true stories about unlikely friendships between animals of different species, describing how the animals bonded and thrived in unique circumstances.

The author presents a study of animal behavior and maintains that animals resemble autistic people in that they think visually rather than linguistically.

Studies the group behavior and social lives of a wide array of insects.

Biologist and science writer Bernd Heinrich investigates his local woods to study the ways a variety of animals adapt their physiology and behavior to the demands of winter.

Explores how different animal fathers treat their young.

Describes how a variety of animals, including kangaroos cockroaches, and pythons, protect their unhatched eggs and young offspring from predators.