animals

Photographs and text describe how to choose and care for a pet puppy. Comparisons are made with the care and behavior of wild animals in zoos and wild animal parks.

Text and pictures present families of different kinds of animals doing their ordinary activities.

As the reader turns the page, a new animal is added to an illustration of a country home in the winter.

Brief descriptions of the characteristics and behavior of ten mountain animals, including the American pika, Himalayan ibex, chamois, vicu?a, giant panda, and mountain gorilla.

Describes the animals that live in Mexico including tapirs, Gila monsters, ospreys, and peccaries.

Discusses the life cycle and behavior patterns of crabs, sea anemones, sea snails, and other creatures of the seashore.

Describes a variety of animal homes, shelters constructed by man for domesticated and zoo animals, and explains that some animals do not build homes.

Introduces animals, freely moving about the African forests and plains.

Instructions for a variety of simple experiments examining the reflex, instinctive, and conditioned behavior of such animals as mealworms, fruit flies, and goldfish.

Introduces a variety of animals, such as koala, fruit bat, walkingstick, snail, and howler monkey, that seek safety, food, and shelter in trees.