"Dual layers of text explain how and why diverse animals make homes specific to their needs. From the turtle's shell, the beaver's lodge, or the seal's cave, each animal requires a special kind of home."--

Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves miss each other, elephants grieve for their dead, and prairie dogs name the humans they encounter. Human

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"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,...

Reveals the ways in which readers and animals behave in the same manner, from dancing bees to babysitting flamingos.

Profiles imagined robots that are based on real animals including bats, jellyfish, snakes, and more.

Why does this bird sound like a car alarm? That's one of the mysteries you'll solve as you explore amazing animal abilities. Learn how turtles navigate, octopuses hide, and giant rats sniff out deadly land mines! Finally, be a scientist as you draw conclusions and make your own scientific study. What incredible abilities will you observe?

Surveys the behavior of various young animals and describes how they eventually grow old enough to leave their parents.

"Animimics are the designers and engineers who are inspired by the genius of nature. Using a science called biomimicry, they rely on nature's 3.8 billion years of experience to research and create new or improved designs, materials and systems. Robotics is one of the most exciting fields where scientists and engineers have been inspired by ideas from nature." -- Provided by publisher.

Discusses animal vomit and the many purposes it serves, including scaring and distracting predators, feeds family and neighbors, protects animals from poisoning, and aids with digestion.