Everyone loves to go for a swim on a warm, sunny day, especially a sea lion, but when the water looks cold, sometimes it is better to stay on dry land.

In a photographic board book featuring real animals at the Smithsonian Institution's National Zoological Park, Elephant spends the day swimming, playing, and eating pumpkins, always staying close to his mother.

The first volume in a new annual series featuring the finest science writing by American authors offers a remarkable selection of works on topics ranging from biochemistry and physics to evolutionary theory, cognition, and astronomy, by Stephen Jay Gould, Timothy Ferris, Deborah M. Gordon, Susan McCarthy, Peter Galison, and other notable writers. Simultaneous.

Two tiger cubs imitate their mother and learn how to climb a wall and hide among the bamboo shoots.

Follows a panda through its day, eating bamboo, sitting on a bridge, having a snack, taking a nap, playing in the water, and eating a bamboo dinner

A young orangutan leaves his mother to play various ape games on the zoo's play equipment with other young orangutans

A baby giraffe is born at the zoo. On board pages.

A baby rhinoceros and his mother enjoy a muddy bath and a shower in their cage before having a snack and a nap