infancy

Depicts a barn owl feeding growing, and learning to hunt and fly during the first year of its life.

Text and photographs describe how a toad changes from a tadpole to a toadlet to a toad during its first three years of life and how it eats, hibernates, and spawns.

Briefly describes the nesting habits of such diverse egg-laying creatures as the whale shark, Siamese fighting fish, grasshopper, emperor penguin, ostrich, duckbilled platypus, and others.

Introduces a variety of baby animals, discussing how they learn, feed, grow, and survive.

Describes the early development, both before and after birth, of the young of such animals as the crocodile, Shetland pony, and human being.

Discusses what is known of the infancy and early life of dinosaurs based on rare examples of fossilized baby dinosaurs.

Describes the characteristics and behavior of baby dinosaurs.

Describes, using a brief dictionary format, the birth and development of several aquatic species.

Text and photographs present Jack the puppy's first year of life as he plays with his nine brothers and sisters and grows larger.

Describes how ponies and foals are born and grow, how they learn to walk, how they are fed at first, and how they communicate.