Explores how a number of different kinds of animals communicate with one another, such as bees dancing, birds singing, dogs wagging their tails, and octopuses and fireflies using light to signal others.
Provides one hundred behavioral traits of dogs and explains what they can tell an owner about their pet's moods, fears, and stresses. Includes fact boxes.
Describes methods used by scientists to study how the brains of birds and other animals work and to determine whether animals can truly communicate verbally.
Animals don't talk to each other in the same way that people do. They don't use words. Animals use their senses to communicate. They send messages by leaving scents, making loud calls, showing their feathers, and fighting with different parts of their bodies. Let's learn about the different ways animals communicate.
Color photographs and simple text depict a variety of color-changing animals such as the chameleon, the seahorse, and the cuttlefish. Includes a glossary and sources of more information.
"The author of Second Nature challenges popular misconceptions to explore the complex lives of the planet's diverse fish species, drawing on the latest understandings in animal behavior and biology to reveal their self-awareness, elaborate courtship rituals and cooperative intelligence."--Provided by publisher.
