Animals

It's nighttime in the rain forest and a small animal is searching for food. Like a furry kite, the little creature glides from the top of one tree to the lower branches of another. The animal More →

One hundred or so green sea turtle babies scramble as fast as they can toward the sea. They have just hatched from eggs their mother buried on the sandy beach eight weeks earlier. If they… More →

A long green snake has just finished a large meal. Now it loops its body around a tree branch and rests, its green skin helping it blend in with its treetop rain forest home. The beautiful… More →

A few seals are playing in the waves near a shore. Suddenly a dark, triangle-shaped fin appears above the water's surface. When the seals see the fin headed toward them, they scatter in all… More →

In the spring, a gray wolf mother makes a den in a hole in a hillside and has four tiny, cuddly pups inside. After giving birth, the mother wolf stays in the den for three weeks, tending to… More →

What's that bushy-tailed animal scampering up a tree? It's a gray fox--the only canine that is as comfortable in a tree as it is on the ground. Mother foxes make their dens inside fallen logs More →

Known for their haunting howls, coyotes live throughout North America. These bushy-tailed canines look like wolves, but they are much smaller. Mother coyotes raise their tiny pups in hidden… More →

A California sea lion shoots above the ocean's surface. Suddenly there is another, and then a third one racing through the water. The sea lions are speeding toward one of their favorite… More →

These golden-colored canines live in Australia and parts of Southeast Asia. Even though dingoes look a lot like pet dogs, they behave more like wolves. In fact, they even howl like wolves.… More →

Long lines of tiny black ants march along a narrow path in a dense forest. They are foraging for food to bring back to a huge mound, which serves as the entrance to their vast underground… More →

Although fennec foxes are the smallest kind of fox, they have enormous ears. The little canines make their homes in the scorching sandy deserts of North Africa. Fennecs dig deep underground… More →

It's pretty amazing that homing pigeons can find their way back home--even when transported vast distances and then released. In fact, homing pigeons are known to have made trips as long as… More →