While some pigs live on farms and roll in the mud, others are performing valuable services to people. Pigs have a great sense of smell and have been put to work for centuries sniffing out truffles, which are highly-prized mushrooms used in cooking and to make oil. Pigs are also used to sniff out bombs and drugs, and to do search and rescue work.

Tells how pigs are trained to use their strong sense of smell to find truffles, bombs and land mines.

Introduces the intelligence, great sense of smell, and digging skills of pigs, and explains that pigs can be trained not only to find truffles but also to locate dangerous land mines.

Everyone knows that pigs are farm animals. What may not be known is that pigs are super-smart and have sniffers as powerful as a dog's nose! So, it's not hard to believe that some people use them as detectives. One thing they detect is an expensive mushroom called a truffle that grows as deep as three feet (1 m) underground. These talented sniffers have also found success in law enforcement detecting illegal drugs. In this introduction to pig detectives, readers will learn about the best breeds for the various jobs and the training the pigs undergo. The fun pictures and fascinating text are sure to engage your emergent readers and give them a deep appreciation for these very special detectives. The nose knows!

Bees have long been known as helpful insects, but in recent years this helpfulness has grown to a new level. They still help plants grow, including food crops. Yet people have discovered that bees and their relatives can be used as animal detectives, too. Bees have been trained to detect land mines and even bedbugs. Age-appropriate vocabulary in English and standard Latin American Spanish support new and emerging readers in both languages.

The collected hard-boiled cases of nursery rhyme-noir with Detective Harry Pigg. Contains The Third Pig Detective, The Ho Ho Ho Mystery and The Curds and Whey Mystery.

The latest mystery for the Third Pig Detective Agency.