Focuses on the special adaptations that animals make to hunt food, and explores the similarities and differences between the various species. Examines the link between diet, adaptations and environment clearly, bringing the subject to life with amazing colour photography. An ideal reference book for 8 - 12-year-olds that supports school studies on life processes in the natural world. Animals live to hunt and hunt to live. Food is imperative to their survial and dictates the shape of its body, where it lives and its behaviour. This lively book gives insight into the diets of all types of animals, presenting a huge range, from beetles to elephants and birds of prey to whales. It explains the special problems each animal faces and the ways they have evolved to cope with their diet. Learn how animals of varying size base their hunting methods on the same theory - the element of surprise. The Hunt for Food includes many fascinating facts and is a fun supplement to school studies.
- ISBN10 184476060X
- ISBN13 9781844760602
- Publish Date 26 November 2004 (first published 30 September 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Anness Publishing
- Imprint Southwater
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English