Whales whistle, fireflies glow, and skunks spray–that’s how they communicate! Find out how mammals, reptiles, birds, and other animals send messages and signals to stay safe, make friends, and care for their young. Accessible and fun K-3 level information reveals the animal world to young readers and researchers. 5-8 years
How to Talk to a Tiger…And Other Animals…How Critters Communicate
By Jason Bittel
Ever wanted to talk to a tiger? Or chatter with a cheetah? Or yak with a yak? This book brings together a babble of more than 100 beasties and explores the amazing ways they talk to each other. From fish that fart to alligators that dunk to fire worms that flash, you’ll discover that wildlife have the strangest ways of sending a message. 8-12 years
How and Why Do Animals Communicate
By Bobbie Kalman
This book shows how animals communicate to share information, attract mates, or scare away enemies. They sing, growl, howl, spray smelly scents, and make their body parts bigger. Children will have fun learning about these communication skills. 8-12 years
How to Speak Animal
By Aubre Andrus and Dr. Gabby Wild
We know animals can’t speak and express themselves in the same way as humans … but even the smallest and quietest animals have incredible ways of communicating with each other. With wildlife veterinarian expert Dr. Gabby Wild as a guide, How to Speak Animal helps kids understand how animals communicate through sound, body language, and behavior. It’s full of expert insights and real-life stories of humans exploring ways to “talk” to animals, from teaching great apes sign language to speaking “dolphin.” Packed with animal photography that helps illustrate key concepts, this book profiles more than 60 different creatures―from birds to mammals to reptiles and more―and their amazing ways of communicating with each other. 8-12 years
Animal Communication
By Michell Garcia Anderson
First to fourth graders will dive into the fascinating lives of their favorite animals and learn about the remarkable ways in which they communicate! How do elephants show affection? What animals communicate by scratching on trees? Young learners will read an animal behavior case study exploring fun facts about the ways animals communicate using different cues! 6-10 years
Animal Talk: All the Incredible Ways That Animals Communicate
By Michael Leach and Meriel Lland, Illustrated by Asia Orlando
For many animals, communicating is as important to their life chances as finding food and water. This book explores the variety of innovative ways animals “talk” to each other. Whether it is releasing a cloud of ink to confuse, roaring to intimidate, dancing to attract a mate, or howling to locate one another, the range of messaging methods in the natural world is quite astonishing (and sometimes quite disgusting!).
Animal Talk is an introduction to ingenious communication strategies in the natural world. Meet birds and spiders who dance to attract a mate, vultures that throw up on their own food to put off other animals, lions who roar at rival prides to test out their strength, and many more. You’ll never look at nature the same way again! 7-9 years
How Do Animals Communicate?
By Sara Howell
Introduce young readers to the myriad ways in which the assorted members of the animal kingdom communicate. The means of animal communication turn out to be as intriguing and varied as the content that is being communicated, from mating signals and announcements regarding location and food availability to warning alarms and simple tokens of affection and protectiveness. Echolocation, pheromones, bioluminescence, scent marking, tail wagging, nuzzling, the elephant’s trumpet, the honeybee’s waggle dance, and more all get their due in this brief, but surprisingly comprehensive, volume. Perfect for animal lovers and whisperers, while also a useful resource for life science units. 6-10 years
The book descriptions are primarily from the publishers.
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