Super Navigators - How Animals Find Their Way

This wonderful exploration of nature spotlights over a dozen animals and explores how animals get to places.

 

 

How do animals find their way, whether it is as simple as a bird leaving its nest to find food, or as complex as a humpback whale following an arrow-straight course while it crosses an entire ocean? How does an Arctic tern travel 56,000 miles a year without getting lost?

We know some things about how animals accomplish these remarkable feats of navigation. Monarch butterflies travel from Canada to Mexico by orienting to the sun. It's the light from the Milky Way that steers dung beetles. Then, there are animals like moths and sea turtles that are guided by Earth's magnetic field. 

Young readers learn about the amazing navigational capabilities of animals and recent discoveries that allow us to understand much more about these abilities, although fascinating mysteries remain.

This is an adaptation for children of a Nautilus Award-winning book, delving into the latest findings on animal intelligence in a whole new way. David Barrie draws on the expertise of animal behaviorists and the research of Nobel Prize-winning scientists to bring us up to date on the cutting edge of animal intelligence.

 

THE AUTHORS

 

David Barrie, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, has sailed all over the world and made many long passages. His book Sextant was short-listed for the Mountbatten Literary Award and received the Royal Institute of Navigation's Certificate of Achievement. His book Supernavigators (Hodder and Stoughton UK, The Experiment US) was a Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019, honored with both a Gold and Silver Nautilus Award in 2020.

 

Rebecca Stefoff is the author of more than two hundred books exploring topics as varied as ghosts, robots, bacteria, evolution, women pioneers, the ruins of Great Zimbabwe, and forensic crime solving. Raised in Indiana, Rebecca now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Qu Lan, born and raised in China, graduated in oil painting from the China Academy of Art before moving to France to work as a graphic designer. She later pursued her passion for illustration, collaborating with major publishers and companies like Hachette, Magic Cat, Usborne, and Adobe. Her award-winning artwork is exhibited regularly worldwide.