parental behavior in animals

Rhyming text explores the ways different animals care for their offspring, from roadrunners to skunks to humans.

Follows a mother bear and her young cubs through two warm summers and two snowy winters.

Explores the many ways animals bear and raise their young.

Describes how animals and humans care for their offspring and the role that instinct plays.

Describes the relationship of a mother and baby chimpanzee.

Miss Dana's class observes two blue jays as they make their nest, have babies, and teach them to fly. Includes information on the physical characteristics and behavior of blue jays.

Simple text explains the varied ways in which such animals as snakes, kangaroos, gray whales, and woodpeckers take care of their young.

Discusses defense tactics used by young animals and their parents including different types of shelters, signals, camouflage, and bluffs.

Describes, in text and illustrations, twelve animal architects and why and how they build their unusual structures.