Reveals how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by animals eating, pooping, and dying-and how these fundamental functions could help save us from climate catastrophe.

A rhythmic description of the different ways in which various animals eat, from a frog eating flies to a cat lapping milk.

Pictures and basic text present animals and what they eat, including worms and apples, giraffes and leaves, and whales and squid.

Rhyming text introduces bug-eating animals such as geckos, trout, or even people. Includes additional facts about each creature.

Provides an introduction to what animals eat and how they collect, store, and digest their food.

Melissa Stewart comes the grossest journey through the animal world you'll ever take. From ants to zebras, get ready to discover some seriously strange animal behaviors. Slurp up soupy insides with houseflies, spit sticky saliva to build nests with birds, and fend off predators with poop-flinging caterpillars and farting snakes. These yucky habits may seem surprising to us, but they're totally normal for these animals. In fact, their survival depends...

To test the limits of our ability to inhabit lives that are not our own, Charles Foster set out to know the ultimate other: the nonhumans. To do that, he chose five animals and lived alongside them, sleeping as they slept, eating what they ate, learning to sense the landscape through the senses they used. In this lyrical, intimate, and completely radical look at the lives of animals, Charles Foster mingles neuroscience and psychology, nature writing...

"Explains how carnivores and herbivores find food. Describes hunting, scavenging, grazing, browsing, and filter feeding"--

Examines the diets of eleven creatures, focusing on the amount of food each creature consumes in a single bite, and covering the sand-grain-sized bite of dirt eaten by an earthworm to the giant squid swallowed by a sperm whale.