"Finalist for the PROSE Award in Biological Sciences" Lars Chittka is professor of sensory and behavioral ecology at Queen Mary University of London. He is the coeditor of Cognitive Ecology of Pollination. A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive mind-the power of bees as an amazing collective. But do we know how uniquely intelligent bees are as individuals? In The Mind of a Bee, Lars Chittka...

Learn about beavers.

Leslie Bulion, award-winning educator favorite and master of science poetry, is back with a humorous exploration of the silk-spinning, bungee-jumping, hunting, trapping, trick-filled world of spiders! Meet spiders that spit silk, roll like wheels, scuba dive, hide under trap doors, strum tunes, and so much more. Watch as they find mates, find preyor find mates that become prey! Award-winning poet Leslie Bulion and illustrator Robert Meganck team up...

"Welcome to the world of baby animals! Learn about the different types of baby animals, how and where they are born, and what their families are like"--

This children's animal book has everything you'll need to know about big cats, including lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, and cheetahs. Find out how big cats hunt, learn about cat myths and legends, discover where big cats live, and how they move. Packed with information, photographs, and colorful illustrations, DK findout! Big Cats is the ultimate kids cat book.

"A tick cuts through a host's skin. It begins to drink blood as its body slowly swells. Learn about the life cycles of ticks with amazing augmented reality experiences and tons of creepy, bloody details"--

"Highly accessible, authoritative, and intellectually provocative, a startlingly original theory of how Homo sapiens came to be: Richard Wrangham forcefully argues that, a quarter of a million years ago, rising intelligence among our ancestors led to a unique new ability with unexpected consequences: our ancestors invented socially sanctioned capital punishment, facilitating domestication, increased cooperation, the accumulation of culture, and ultimately...

"Salmon swim in large schools to return to the streams and rivers where they were first born. From egg to fish and out to the open ocean, then back again, follow the journey of migrating salmon"

In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.

"A collection of interesting facts about some of the biggest animals on the planet"--