Baby Animals In Water Habitats

This book introduces habitats for baby animals in freshwater rivers, lakes, ponds, and wetlands. Children will be fascinated by pictures of baby hippos, geese, swans, alligators, tigers, muskrats, nutrias, river otters, and more.

Provides an overview of the different types of baby animals that can be found in ocean habitats, including sea turtles, warm-ocean babies, and Arctic and Antarctic babies, and describes the ocean food chain and how the animals adapt to their unique environment.

Features beautiful, heartwarming photographs of animal babies with their parents in freshwater habitats.

Explains what a habitat and river are and describes the baby animals that live in and around rivers.

Photographs and text focus on over fifty of the world's most appealing wild animal babies, grouped by habitat, and follows the baby's progress from birth to independence.

With playful text, and beautiful close-up photography that features baby animals in their natural habitats, this series is an accessible introduction to a wide range of animals and ecosystems. Young readers get to frolic beneath the waves in Baby Animals In the Sea by the editors at Kingfisher, an appealing introduction to aquatic life. The bouncy text and beautiful photography beg kids to flip the pages and discover who is hiding in that seaweed, who squishes into tiny places, who floats on the waves, and who uses their flippers to zip on by. A dolphin calf with a big smile and a fluffy, splashing otter pup with twitching whiskers are just two of the adorable babies shown in their watery homes.

Featuring ducks, otters, hippos, and more, Animal Babies in Ponds and Rivers is a charming introduction to six animal babies, their parents, and their water-based habitat. With fun questions and answers, this is the perfect format for preschoolers to learn interesting facts.

From the author of Monarchs of the Sea, a first-of-its-kind journey into the hidden world of baby animals—hailed as “a gobsmacking delight!” (Sy Montgomery, New York Times–bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus) It’s time to pay attention to baby animals. From egg to tadpole, chick to fledgling, they offer scientists a window into questions of immense importance: How do genes influence health? Which environmental factors support—or obstruct—life? Entire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies. At any given moment, babies represent the majority of animal life on Earth. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf invites readers into the sibling (and, sometimes, clashing) fields of ecology and developmental biology. The tiny, hidden lives that these scientists study in the lab and in the wild reveal some of nature’s strangest workings: A salamander embryo breathes with the help of algae inside its cells. The young grub of a Goliath beetle dwarfs its parents. The spotted beak of a parasitic baby bird tricks adults of other species into feeding it. Mouse embryos can absorb cancerous cell grafts—and develop into healthy adults. Our bias toward adult animals (not least because babies can be hard to find) means these wonders have long gone under-researched. But for all kinds of animals, if we overlook their babies, we miss out on the most fascinating—and consequential—time in the lives of their species. Nursery Earth makes the case that these young creatures are not just beings in progress but beings in their own right. And our planet needs them all: the maggots as much as the kittens!