parental behavior in animals

Photographs and simple text trace the lives of robins and their chicks from birth to early maturity.

Introduces the important roles that some animal fathers play in the development of their offspring, with examples of specific kinds of birds, mammals, and other creatures that thrive under a father's care.

Answers a variety of questions about baby animals and their parents.

Describes the parental relationship between adult dinosaurs and their young.

Illustrations and simple text describe how thirteen different animals, including pandas, fruit bats, cheetahs, and gray whales, raise their young.

Discusses the production, fertilization, and development of the eggs of mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, insects, and lower forms of animals.

Describes the dependent relationship of a joey to his mother until he grows old enough to leave her and join a kangaroo mob of his own.

Traces five years in the life of a mother whale as she gives birth to a calf, cares for him, mates, and finally gives birth again.

Photographs and simple text describe the different ways parents in the animal kingdom interact with their children.

Photographs and simple text trace the lives of bears and their cubs from birth to early maturity.