Paperweight Magic
  • By Carol Baldwin
  • Duration: 0:05:43
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Glass is used to make beautiful paperweights

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Photographing a Llama Salt Caravan
  • By Victor Englebert
  • Duration: 0:05:46
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

The author follows a llama salt caravan across the Andes Mountains. He describes his companions two Quechua Indians and their way of life.

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Storking Molecules
  • By Nancy Burnham
  • Duration: 0:05:04
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Is it possible to see "friction" under a microscope?

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The Dental-Floss Fish
  • By Craig Stevens
  • Duration: 0:05:06
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

The Hawaiian cleaner wrasse gets its food by cleaning other fish.

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The Seal in Our Backyard
  • By Andrea Lawson
  • Duration: 0:02:52
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

The author's experience of an elephant seal molting in her backyard.

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The Seal is a Sneaky Swimmer
  • By Jack Myers
  • Duration: 0:01:41
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Why can harbor seals outswim humans?

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Watching Wild Babboons
  • By Sharon T. Pochron, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:05:32
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Meet a scientist who dodged elephants and a cheetah to study baboons.

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What's a Bear to Eat
  • By Sharon T. Pochron, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:04:51
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Learn why people food makes a dangerous diet for bears.

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When Do Monkeys Talk
  • By Sharon T. Pochron, Ph.D.
  • Duration: 0:02:23
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

A scientist discovered that monkeys can control the sounds they make--they seem to know when to keep quiet and when to call in the family.

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The Quicksand That Ate My Shoes
  • By Jennifer Owings Dewey
  • Duration: 0:03:56
  • Narrator: Highlights for Children
  • Publisher: Highlights

Eleven-year-old Jennifer gets into quicksand.

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