The Animals’ World
The Animals’ World
We see, hear, smell, and feel the world around us. So do animals. But many animals do these things in different ways. Some kinds of animals can’t do all of them. Some kinds of animals do them better than others.So, for each kind of animal, the world is different. Some animals see colors, other animals see only shades of gray. For some animals the world is filled with smells, for others there are no smells at all. Some animals can’t hear. Some can’t see at all.For some kinds of animals the world is very different. A bat’s world is darkness filled with echoing sound. For a butterfly the world is filled with shapes and colors and smells we can hardly imagine.But each kind of animal has exactly the right kind of eyes, or nose, or ears, or feelers, or tail, or other things it needs to find its way and live its life in its world.A painted lady butterfly smells its world through its feelers.
The great horned owl’s big eyes can see clearly in the dark.
What animals see
A hawk can see much better than a person can. From high in the sky, a hawk can see a tiny mouse in the grass below. Broadwinged Hawk If you were a rabbit, nibbling plants in a meadow, you would be…
Listen!
A bat flies through a cave. Long, sharp rocks hang from the roof. Other rocks stick up from the floor. The cave is darker than night. If you were there, you wouldn’t see a thing. But the flying bat…
A world of smells
The squirrel can tell if the hickory nut is good or bad by the way it smells. Even though you can’t see them, you can tell when cookies are baking nearby. You can’t see perfume on a lady, but you…
A different way of hunting
A hungry rattlesnake glides through the grass at night. The animals it hunts can’t see it well in the dark. The snake can’t see them either, but it doesn’t have to. It has another way of finding…
