Coloring books about animal families

Albatrosses can live more than sixty years and often stay with the same partner for life.

On one island in Hawai'i, scientists checked every nest and found that about a third of the pairs raising chicks were two females.

They take turns, year after year, and they raise their chicks together.

The father seahorse has a pouch on his belly.

The mother places her eggs inside it, and he carries them, protects them, and gives birth to the babies himself.

Hundreds of tiny seahorses come out at once, each one the size of a grain of rice.

Flamingo parents feed their chick a bright red milk they make inside their own bodies.

Both the mother and the father make it, so they take turns.

Making it drains the color from their feathers, and parents slowly fade to pale pink while their chick grows.

Barn owl chicks hatch on different days, so the oldest is much bigger than the youngest.

Scientists watching nests at night discovered something almost no other bird does: the older chicks give food to their smaller siblings.

Sometimes they hand over a mouse they could easily have eaten themselves.

A humpback calf drinks hundreds of gallons of milk a day and can grow a hundred pounds in a week.

Humpback songs travel for miles, but scientists found that mothers and calves whisper to each other in tiny, quiet voices.

They whisper so that nothing dangerous can overhear where the baby is.