habitations

Discusses the ways various insects shelter themselves and their young.

Text and pictures take the reader inside animal homes--used for resting, sheltering from weather, escaping enemies, and raising young.

Discusses the tracks, scents, nests, food remains, and other traces left by various animals and the clues thus provided regarding their behavior.

Examines the characteristics of the many different types of places in which animals make their home.

Describes, in text and illustrations, twelve animal architects and why and how they build their unusual structures.

Presents an illustrated guide to how to interpret tracks and sign from over four hundred animals, covering droppings and pellets, dens, nests, and other indications of behavior, with diagrams and information on different animals' range, habitat, and food.

Describes the world's jungles, deserts, mountains, and polar regions and the climatic conditions and plant and animal life found in each.

Illustrations and simple text describe where different animals live.

Photographs and text help describe the habitats of various animals and insects, including spiders, apes, beavers, bats, termites, and more. Includes related activities.

Presents an illustrated introduction to the various animals that build structures for protection, food gathering, storage, and nesting, providing information on what materials in nature they use to tunnel, bore wood, weave, and mound, and celebrating the architects of the animal world.