My First Discoveries
9 total works
How does a dolphin swim? How do they give birth in the water? How do they communicate with each other? Learn all about these intelligent, affectionate and sociable creatures that often swim in large groups, look after each other when injured and team together to catch their prey. Find out the names of different species of dolphins in the oceans around the world and about some of their close cousins.
Discover what makes up a small growing human body and how each of the different parts work separately and together. How do we breathe and digest food to provide energy to walk and run and play?
Find out all about these ancient reptiles that have existed since the time of the dinosaurs. Learn what makes them such effective hunters, how they swim and communicate with each other. Watch them hunt, fight, reproduce and look after their young. Discover how they have been worshipped, persecuted and finally protected by humans. Learn to identify cayman, alligators gavials, saltwater crocodiles and other reptiles.
Readers will find out what happens to food and air and blood in our bodies; where our bones, muscles, veins, and nerves are; and how our brain works and controls what we do.
A unique look at the many varying ways, times, and places that different animals sleep. Mammals, insects, fish, and reptiles all get tired like us and need to sleep. This book illustrates vividly how and where they sleep, in many different ways and at different times. Fish, snakes, and insects sleep with their eyes open. Birds sleep perched in trees without falling off. Bats sleep upside down for 20 hours a day. Sleeping whales and dolphins keep a part of their brains awake at all times so that they can go to the surface when they need air. Horses, elephants, zebras, and giraffes sleep standing up and for less than 4 hours a day.
Where does the fire in volcanoes come from? How does magma find its way to the Earth's surface? What is the Earth's crust? What does a volcanologist do?
