Story
Quiet flyer
Owl's Silent Wings
An owl can swoop onto a mouse in almost total darkness without making a single sound, thanks to wings built for silent flight.
Habitat
Forest wonders
Patient sleepers
Sleepy Seeds
Some seeds rest quietly in the soil for years, waiting patiently for exactly the right moment to wake up and grow.
Speedy grower
The Bamboo Race
Some bamboo can grow almost a meter taller in a single day, making it one of the fastest-growing plants on Earth.
Wrapped in wonder
The Butterfly's Quiet Change
A crawling caterpillar can wrap itself in a quiet little case and later emerge as an entirely new creature: a butterfly.
Story
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.
Story
Memory keeper
Wise Elephant
The oldest elephant in a herd remembers the way to water holes that only she has ever visited.
Story
Feelings you can see
Chameleon's Changing Colors
A chameleon can flash a whole new color in seconds, not mainly to hide, but to show how it's feeling.
Accidental gardener
Forgetful Squirrel
A squirrel buries hundreds of acorns every autumn, but forgets where it hid quite a few of them by the time spring comes.
Story
A giant that keeps growing
The Reaching Redwood
A giant redwood can grow taller than a thirty-story building and live for more than two thousand years.
Small but strong
The Mighty Ant Team
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.
Story
Nature's engineer
The Beaver's Busy Dam
A beaver can chew through a tree trunk in one night and use it to dam a stream into its own private pond.
Story
Underground friendship
The Secret Tree Network
Trees in a forest can share food and warnings with each other through a hidden web of threads buried in the soil.