Describes some of the animals that share responsibility for raising their young, including feeding, protecting, and teaching.

Animal Baby Sitters (Watts Library)

Children's Books

Jarrow, Gail

Sherman, Paul W.

Animals

Franklin Watts

An introduction to the science of the animal world explains which animal is the stupidest, why vultures have bald heads, how vampire bats suck blood, and other unusual mysteries

Naked Mole-Rats (Nature Watch)

CarolRhoda Books

This anthology contains 38 articles published since 1977 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly to complement John Alcock s Animal Behavior, this readily comprehensible and richly illustrated reader can stand alone as a sampler of the excitement and diversity of research approaches and organisms that constitute the modern study of animal behavior.

Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist

Science & Math

ALCOCK, John

Biological Sciences

Sinauer Associates is an imprint of Oxford University Press

Describes this strange-looking rodent which lives a social life in a system of tunnels under the brick-hard soil of East Africa.

Naked Mole-Rats (A Carolrhoda Nature Watch Book)

Jarrow, Sherman

First Avenue Editions

This anthology contains 37 articles published since 1974 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. While sequenced particularly to complement John Alcock's Animal Behavior, this readily comprehensible and richly illustrated reader can stand alone as a sampler of the excitement and diversity of research approaches and organisms that constitute the modern study of animal behavior.

Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist, Sixth Edition