You eat bacon and cereal for breakfast. A bear eats fish and berries. Some kinds of animals eat only food from plants. Some kinds eat only other animals. Some animals eat both kinds of food. But each...
Plants and animals need each other
Plants and animals trade with each other. They trade for things they both need to stay alive. Animals breathe air. The air gets changed inside their bodies. When they breathe the air out again...
Living Together
> A monarch butterfly caterpillar can live wherever there are milkweed > plants. Everywhere in the world, different kinds of plants and animals live together. Some animals eat plants they live...
The biggest and the smallest
Mammals The Kitti's hog-nosed bat is less than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) long. The blue whale is as long as 100 of the rulers. The bat and the whale are both mammals. And so is a dog. > The blue...
Curiosities
> Platypus The platypus, or duckbill, is a mammal, but it seems to be part bird, too. It has a body like a beaver and a bill and feet like a duck. A mother platypus gives milk, as all mammal mothers...
Trunks and tails
Wouldn't it seem strange to have a hand on the end of your nose? But an elephant has a sort of hand on the end of its nose. The elephant's trunk is its nose. And at the end of the trunk are one or...
Hot and cold
A kangaroo rat's world is the burning hot desert. The desert is baked by the sun. The air above the sand is so hot it wiggles! During the day, a kangaroo rat sleeps in a cool, underground hole....
The night world
A mouse scampers through the grass in a meadow. It is night and only the stars are out. The mouse can hardly see, but it finds its way in the dark, because it is in its territory. The air is full of...
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...
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...
