This series examines the animal world, each book focusing on a particular aspect of animal behaviour or the relationship between animals and their environment. In this illustrated volume, the author looks at many different physical and behavioural adaptations which animals have evolved to suit their various habitats and living conditions. He defines animals' adaptations to the places they live, and describes how in cold or mountainous places animals need thick coats and how they may need to hibernate or migrate, while in hot climates animals avoid venturing out in the midday sun or have special adaptations, such as large ears, to keep them cool. Further chapters examine ways in which animals survive in areas where there is little fresh water, such as deserts or mangroves, looking at creatures such as the Namib beetle, the spadefoot toad and the mudskipper. Flying mammals, lizards and fish are discussed, while animals adapted to living in water, trees and dark places and some adaptations for feeding and breeding are covered in other chapters.
Finally, the author considers how animals have become used to people, from polar bears and foxes that raid dustbins, to pets and birds of prey that have been tamed. Malcolm Penny has produced many of the wildlife documentaries for Survival Anglia TV and is the author of all the previous books in the Animal Kingdom series.
- ISBN10 1852103833
- ISBN13 9781852103835
- Publish Date 10 September 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hachette Children's Group
- Imprint Hodder Wayland
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 32
- Language English