Explores the world of predators--plants and animals that find, catch, and kill their food, looking at how eyes, teeth, touch, smell, stalking, fishing, and other senses and methods are used to capture prey.
Explores different ways that animals and insects migrate, from the powerful ruby-throated hummingbird that flies from Canada to Panama and back each year, to tiny spiders that go where the wind carries them.
Explores why animals fight with each other, how some behavior prevents fights, different ways that animals fight when they must, and the advantages of being proved the strongest in one's group.
Explores how different animals of the land, sea, and air create fantastic displays of light and color as they seek mates, give warnings, or simply gather together.
Explains the circle of life in the plant and animal kingdoms, from reproduction, through their growing years as they adapt to their habitats, to their deaths.
Explores different kinds of food eaten by certain animals and the special teeth or other tools they have for eating that food, as well as some of the ways plants avoid being eaten.
Describes the ways animals hibernate during the winter, explaining the difference between true hibernators and light sleepers, and how they wake up in the spring.
Defines two types of animal camouflage (cryptic coloration and mimicry) and describes how various animals use camouflage to hide from predators or disguise themselves from prey.
