Sound seeing
Bat's Echo Song
A bat sings tiny songs too high-pitched for human ears, then listens to the echoes to find its way through the dark.
Habitat
Sound seeing
A bat sings tiny songs too high-pitched for human ears, then listens to the echoes to find its way through the dark.
Talking with a wiggle
A honeybee that finds a rich patch of flowers can tell her hivemates exactly where it is, just by dancing in the dark.
Wrapped in wonder
A crawling caterpillar can wrap itself in a quiet little case and later emerge as an entirely new creature: a butterfly.
A tiny, hungry helper
A single ladybug can eat dozens of plant-munching aphids in just one day.
Following the light
A young sunflower slowly turns to follow the sun all day, then quietly swings back to face east again by dawn.
Thousands of miles home
Monarch butterflies fly up to 3,000 miles to a place none of them have ever been before, following a path their great-great-grandparents once flew.
Music made of wings
A cricket doesn't sing with its mouth at all; it makes its chirping song by rubbing a pair of special wings together.
Cool light maker
A firefly can glow without ever feeling warm, lighting up the summer night with a built-in lantern near its tail.
Accidental gardener
A squirrel buries hundreds of acorns every autumn, but forgets where it hid quite a few of them by the time spring comes.
Small but strong
One tiny ant can lift many times its own body weight, and a whole colony can move things far too big for any single ant.