Did you know baby trumpeter swans use an eggtooth - the hard, pointed knob in its bill - to break out of its egg? Or that harbor seal pups say hello with their whiskers? Art Wolfe photographs 27 baby animals in Northwest Animal Babies (Sasquatch/Raincoast, $22.95) with accompanying text by Andrea Helman, author of O is for Orca. 1-57061-144-0

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