Celebrate National Wildlife Week March 15-21 and get children outside. The National Wildlife Federation offers a number of outdoor activities for children. If you are a teacher, look over our Lost in the Wood and Stranger in the Woods Curriculum Guides. Each guide contains 54 fun-filled activity pages plus 12 additional “project cards” with great ideas for [...]
Have you ever wondered why there are so many squirrels in your yard? Milena Shattuck and Scott Williams, doctoral candidates in anthropology, have found that tree-dwelling mammals live longer than those who live on the ground. Humans are an exception, but tree-dwelling ancestors may explain that. View the article, “Tree-dwelling mammals climb to the heights [...]
Laura Sams and Robert Sams, authors of our book A Pirate’s Quest, and directors of our DVD movie The Riddle in a Bottle, enjoy sharing their talents through author visits and live performances each year. You can watch their wonderful presentation in Dubai in the video above. They have performed at the Smithsonian Museum of [...]
Our art director, Karen McDiarmid, is keeping a mouse-keeper’s journal to write about her work with the mice featured in our upcoming new movie, First Snow in the Woods: The Movie, based on our award-winning children’s book First Snow in the Woods. Karen is sharing her entries with us. Here’s part of the first one, [...]
Meet Milton, a desert tortoise, and learn some interesting and helpful desert tortoise facts by watching the video.
It’s time to get kids outside. A new study, “DAILY MEDIA USE AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENS UP DRAMATICALLY FROM FIVE YEARS AGO”, from the Kaiser Family Foundation states that most youth say they have no rules about how much time they can spend with TV, video games, or computers. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an [...]
Winter survival for big game animals in winter is tough. Big game survive winter through four main adaptations: an insulated coat, reducing their metabolism (up to one-third of what they need to meet basic life functions), remaining bedded for long periods during bad weather and relying on stored body fat, according the to article “Winter [...]
In a bid to save buffalo at Yellowstone National Park, billionaire Ted Turner has offered to hold the animals for five years on his sprawling Montana ranch while a new home for them is found, according to the article “Turner’s bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate” in The Washington Post. 88 bison from Yellowstone [...]
Have you every wondered how animals survive winter? According to the article “Animals have differing ways of surviving winter”, in the Springfield News-Leader online at News-Leader.com, animals survive bitter cold days by storing up food, growing thick coats or simply sleeping through it. To prepare for winter, animals store up energy reserves. In addition to a [...]
A study that recorded 25 years worth of bear sightings on the Alaskan coast suggests that polar bears are spending more time either on land or in the open ocean instead of the sea ice they normally use as a hunting platform, according to the article “People better get used to polar bears hanging out” [...]
