Wildlife: Mug Shots
  • By George W. Frame, Ph. D.
  • Duration: 0:02:43
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Wildlife biologists need special ways to recognize individual animals that they are studying.

Winter's Tail
  • By Sharon Teper
  • Duration: 0:03:03
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

A dolphin learns to swim with an artificial tail.

How the Weaverbird Built His Nest
  • By George W. Frame, Ph. D.
  • Duration: 0:04:20
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

How does the male weaverbird make such a perfect nest? By building it over and over again until he gets it right.

How to Find a Tortoise Nest
  • By Alexandra Wells
  • Duration: 0:07:14
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

See how scientists find and study baby turtles.

How Whales Wing It
  • By Anna Ouchchy
  • Duration: 0:05:34
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Dr. Fish works with wind power basing his designs off the shape and structure of whale flippers.

Inventing Tiny Ears
  • By Harry T. Roman
  • Duration: 0:02:24
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Scientists are developing microsensors to detect electrical sparks.

Jack and Billy
  • By Hank Poff
  • Duration: 0:04:44
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

A boy's caring attention helps heal a horse's foot.

Jumping Spiders
  • By Bryan Reynolds
  • Duration: 0:00:49
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

These spiders don't wait in a web to trap food; they hunt for prey and pounce on it--sometimes leaping twenty times their own body length.

Leonardo's Mysterious Lady
  • By Susannah Rutherglen
  • Duration: 0:04:17
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

This article discusses a portrait by daVinci called "Lady with an Ermine" along with the detective work by scholars who deduced the identity of the subject.

Living with Pigs
  • By Judy Wolfman
  • Duration: 0:03:22
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

The Eberly sisters help raise pigs on their parents' farm.

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