animals

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

Explains how the woodchuck, black bear, red fox, and Canadian goose cope with winter in the northern parts of North America.

Discusses the habits of ten animals that live in the polar regions with introductory material describing these two areas.

Describes ten animals living on the savanna and in other grassland environments: the lion, red kangaroo, pronghorn, ostrich, mara, African elephant, blackbuck, zebra, bison, and giraffe.

Describes how animals communicate with each other by means of sight, sound, smell, and touch.

Observes the behavior of several animals during the summer months.

Discusses the way in which a variety of animals play, including the baboon, brown bear, and fox.

Describes how animals face the rigors of winter by hibernating, migrating, storing food, or changing colors to blend with the winter landscape.

Explores the sense of taste throughout the animal kingdom, examining how it works in mammals, birds, fish, insects, and humans.

Brief text and over 200 color photographs depict various external and internal parts of animal anatomy including zoological classification. Included are elephants, dolphins, sharks, spiders, cats, bears, butterflies, birds, and others.