"Do you want to know what dogs are thinking? What they're feeling? Now you finally can. The answers will surprise and delight young readers as scientist and dog-owner Alexandra Horowitz explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human."--

"The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world.This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension -- the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic...

"Simple text and photographs present what happens to the weather, animals, and plants in fall"--Provided by publisher.

"Simple text and photographs present what happens to the weather, animals, and plants in spring"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the animal behavior of hibernation.

Discusses and explains the traits and characteristics of the group of animals known as mammals.

Rather than fulfill the expectations of his persistent companion, an animal chooses to live authentically.

Details the characteristics, habitats, and life cycle of the largest member of the deer family.

"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...

Text and photographs explore spiders, including where they live and what they eat.