How do baby mammals grow? Food! And a lot of help from their mothers.
This book shares the life cycle stories of eight different mammal babies from habitats across the globe. Readers learn essential facts about each animal’s birth, nursing, weaning, hunting or foraging skills, and the other techniques they must learn from their mother (and community) before they can be “all grown up.”
As they page through expansive panoramic illustrations, readers explore the vast diversity of the mammal world and discover the traits that unite all mammals. The written text highlights the importance of mother’s milk in infancy and learning to find food as each animal matures, while the lifelike visual text provides additional information about each species, including its habitat, family group, and relative size. The animals in the book are drawn from habitats around the world and arranged from the shortest to the longest childhoods.
All newborn mammals—whether they have hooves, flippers, claws, or wings—rely on their mother’s milk to help them grow. To survive, every cub, calf, and kit must eventually learn how to find its own food. From bats learning to fly to elephants gaining control of their trunks, animal families help their young develop the tools they need to hunt, forage, or scavenge. Open this book to explore the incredible variety of skills baby mammals must learn in order to survive and thrive.
