by Ollie Peterson | Oct 25, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids, Learning, Sensory systems
African Painted Dogs © 2024 by Oliver Peterson is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Picture this: you are an African painted dog trotting through the open plains of Sub-Saharan Africa. You are usually with your pack, sometimes drifting out...
by Adele Cutler | Oct 25, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids, Foraging
Have you ever thought, what came first, the chicken or egg? They both need each other to exist but which happened first? Questions about how things came to be are hard to answer, but questions scientists have been asking for hundreds of years. Scientists have spent...
by Owen Rodstrom | Oct 25, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids, Anti-predator behavior
Imagine this. A large spider crawls across the floor of your room. You don’t notice it at first, but as it crawls closer and closer you suddenly see it. Eek! You reach for a book and try to squash it, but before you can crush it, it runs away. Whether you realize it...
by Morgan Baker | Oct 25, 2024 | Learning
Have you ever been on a summer vacation and started looking at houses to stay during Christmas? Well, porcupines do that too! Except they go on vacation during the wintertime and search during the summer. North American Porcupines (Erethizon dorsatum) do this thing...
by Anne-Duncan Enright | Oct 25, 2024 | Animal Tales for Kids
Not just any honey bee is allowed to hang around the hive. Honey bee colonies have their own bouncers who get to decide which bees get to hang out with the queen bee and which bees get kicked out of the hive. There are three types of honey bees (Apis...
