Introduction

Your teacher's aunt, the famous biologist Professor Critter, just returned from one of her adventures and brought back a treasure to share with your class – twenty-seven baby animals!  While visiting your class, she receives an emergency phone call asking her to come help take care of a frog invasion in a remote African village. In a panic, she hands the animals to your teacher and tells him to take care of them until she returns.

Your teacher, being a quick thinker, immediately puts you to work. You have twenty-seven baby animals to take care of, and each one is a different kind! What will you feed them? What kind of habitat do they need? Most importantly, why would anyone want to save them? Are they actually important, useful animals?