Presents more than one hundred true stories that demonstrate how animals experience grief, humor, compassion, deception, and strategy.

An animal scientist draws on her experience as an autistic to identify commonalities between animals and autistics, offering insight into how animals process sensory information and how they often possess unrecognized savant-level talents.

A guide to animal tracks and signs.

For years, even scientists mistakenly believed that dogs were simply domesticated wolves. But recent discoveries have demonstrated that dogs are actually much more complex than their wild cousins--their ability to adapt to a man-made world is far more flexible, and their personalities are far more diverse. Using findings from scientific experiments by dog breeders and the domestication of foxes and wolves, Coren re-creates the story of how dogs evolved...

A hurricane is forming over the ocean. Humans get ready by boarding up windows and gathering food and supplies. But what do wild animals do before and during hurricanes? Based on scientific research and noted observations, this book answers that question about a variety of different animals. Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.

Describes how to identify animals and their movements from their tracks, scat, food remains, and scent.

Text and photographs describe some animals who are active at night, such as foxes, bats, owls, and fieldmice.

A collection of bizarre facts, stories, and photographs featuring strange creatures, people, places, and adventures from around the world.

In this companion book to the television series, six of the most spectacular natural phenomena on our planet are explored--the flooding of the Okavango Delta in Botswana; the melting of 10 million square kilometers of ice in the Arctic; the migration of the Serengeti; the great salmon run in British Columbia; the explosion of sea life in Alaska's coastal waters; and perhaps the greatest marine spectacle on the planet, the annual tide of sardines along...

Introduces some of the most dangerous animals in the world, including cheetahs, sharks, owls, bears, and jellyfish.