SuitabookNature's best parents
Tom Jackson
- Reading
- Compare how different animals care for their young, then pause to discuss what each example suggests about adaptation and survival.
- Themes
- Animal care and survival: The book compares how animals care for young, including emperor penguins sharing duties and giant anteaters carrying a baby. Animal care is presented through varied behaviours associated with helping offspring survive.
- Evolution and adaptation: The book aims to introduce some basics of evolutionary theory through the ways featured animals care for their young. The book presents this mainly as information or explanation.
- Worth knowing
- Some animal examples involve young that are helpless or environments described as harsh.