animal-plant relationships

Explains the importance of and provides guidance for favoring native plants in one's garden in order to sustain native species of insects, birds, and other animals, and provides lists of native plants of the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, and Pacific Northwest regions of the U.S.

Provides information on the world's grazing animals, covering the abundance, distribution, natural history, eating habits, behavior, and appearance of even-toed ungulates, deer, antelopes, sheep, goats, cattle, swine, giraffids, horses, grazing marsupials, and proboscideans.

Looks at the ways in which plants and animals interact, discussing the interdependency caused by the mutual need for nutrients and gases, and including a hands-on experiment.

Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the characteristics of a variety of flowers and some of the birds and insects that need flowers to survive. Includes the sunflower, bleeding heart, daylily, rose, bumblebee, butterfly, and hummingbird.

Illustrations and text describe five different trees located in countries throughout the world that serve as homes to a wide variety of animals.

Study of plant-pollinator relationships, looking at the hidden connections between plants and animals in locales around the world, and discussing how human society has affected and is affected by those relationships.