animals

Depicts a seal in its early life as it grows, plays, and learns to feed itself.

Follows the development of a mallard duckling from the mating of his parents to his first swim, less than an hour after birth.

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.

Explains how teeth are clues to what animals eat and how they get their food.

Follows an expedition through the Okavango Delta region in Botswana and describes some of the different animals found there.

Examines eleven of nature's deadliest creations, including the dart poison frog, thresher shark, and king cobra.

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.

Defines hibernation and describes different animals' ways of preparing for and spending the winter.

Discusses six animals that periodically form groups, including a swarm of bees, colony of ants, and kettle of hawks.