Where these facts come from
Sources
Every animal in these books is real, and every fact is true.
The research
- The albatross study: Young, L.C., Zaun, B.J. & VanderWerf, E.A. (2008). *Successful same-sex pairing in Laysan albatross.* Biology Letters, Royal Society. Researchers genetically tested every nest at Kaena Point on O'ahu across four breeding seasons.
- The barn owl sibling food-sharing research: Roulin, A., University of Lausanne.
- The humpback whispering research: Videsen, S.K.A. et al. (2017), on tagged mother-calf pairs off Australia.
- Full source list at wholeherdpress.com/sources
Words that help
- Alloparent
- an animal who helps raise a baby that isn't biologically their own
- Crèche
- a group of young animals watched over by a few adults taking turns
- Colony
- a large group of animals living and working together
- Pod
- a family group of whales or dolphins
- Herd
- a group of animals who move, feed, and raise their young together
The paw prints
12 of the 25 animals in Everyone Helps carry a small paw print. Nothing in the book explains it, and that is on purpose — children work out the pattern themselves, usually around animal six.
african elephant · emperor penguin · laysan albatross · meerkat · gray wolf · common marmoset · barn owl · naked mole-rat · bottlenose dolphin · giraffe · honeybee · red fox