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The article offers information on properties of different animals' eggs. Topics discussed include pink color of eggs such as of snails being indicative of its poisonous nature, texture of eggs such as of goose having a solid shell, and shape of eggs such as of swan having oval-shaped eggs. Also are mentioned difference in size of eggs as in most cases the bigger animal lays the bigger eggs.

Several photographs are presented including a silhouetted figure feeding white swans and dark-plumed ducks and coots by Marcin Ryczek, and sledders on the wintry Vistula Spit by Kacper Kowalski.

Several nature photographs are presented of various subjects including a gray whale off the Baja California coast in Mexico, a boy dancing in the stream from a downspout in Old Havana, Cuba during a rainstorm, and a swan stretching its wings in a brook in Richmond Park in London, England.

Several photographs of whooper swans are presented.

Focuses on swans found in Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia. Migratory patterns of the swans; Reasons for changing of habitats by the birds; Efforts for conservation of swan population.

Focuses on behavior of swans found in Abbotsbury Swannery, England. Features of swans; Nesting habits of swan; Food of swans.

A quiz about animals, including swans, walruses and rabbits, is presented.

The article discusses the similarities of some of the creatures in the movie "Dr. Seuss' the Lorax" to real-life animals. The actions of Bar-Ba-Loots in the film are likened to some of the moves that bears make. The movie's Humming-Fish are similar to some species of real fish that can traverse on land. Swomee-Swan creatures in the film are unlike real-life swans, who do not build nests in trees and have more than one type of nesting site.

The article introduces several animals considered amazing. A pig named Louie owned by Sue Williams of Gwyneed, Wales can perform dog tricks. The swan, Schwani has emotional attachment to a tractor at a hotel in Velen, Germany where he lives. A monkey named Liberty at Six Flags Great Adventure and Wild Safari in Jackson Township, New Jersey was able to escape from her habitat and evade the police and park staff searching for her.

The article presents information on ten close-to-home tourist destinations. Minnesota is one of the places. The 9.3-mile loop meanders through stands of giant red and white pine and offers a picnic stop at Hemando DeSoto Lake, where trumpeter swans cruise placid waters. In Ontario, warm, sapphire water, countless wooded islands and unlimited opportunities to swim, fish, and snorkel--sounds like the stuff of a Caribbean sailing charter. In Georgia, mountain bikers can dash through rhododendron tunnels and splash across streams on the Bear Creek Trail, a rolling out-and-back that connects with the Mountaintown Creek Trail to form a 22-mile loop.

Photographs of odd objects found across the world are presented, including a dog sculpture for an international mosaic culture contest in Hamamatsu, Japan, and a water taxi in Hamburg, Germany that transports swans to an ice-free pond.

Photographs from readers are presented, including a photo of a swan from Zhang Xuan taken on Lake Ontario in Canada, and a photo of wet mud taken by Ko Cheng at the Gaomei wetlands in Taiwan.

This article reports on research at the University of Melbourne, Australia, into swan behavior using microchips in the tail feathers of the male swans to detect the time and duration of copulation. Scientists were trying to discover information on the mating practices of swans, who are normally monogamous, but occasionally are not.

The article lists several trivia. A baking company created a chocolate chip cookie that weighed as much as four elephants. Most swans in England belong to the Queen. Horse run on their toes. Scents smell better through the right nostril than the left. Earthworms have five hearts. Hot dogs can last more than 20 years in landfills.

Discusses how swans that swim in the Thames river in London, England are counted each year by people known as uppers. Reason that a census of the swans is conducted; Ownership of some of the swans by two trade guilds, the Vintners and the Dyers.

Reports on the depletion of the food source of swans in Berwick, England after a government-ordered clean-up of industrial effluvia in the River Tweed.