Wild Nature
12 total works
Why would a frog look like a turtle? Which lizard can squirt blood from its eyes? Which flowers can kill insects? The answers to these questions are not characters in a movie. They are real animals and plants that you will meet in 'Weird and Wonderful'. You will also meet a beetle that boils its insides and a bird that dances on the water. All this squirting, boiling, and dancing is fun to learn about, but it us not about playing games. This book will show you how being weird helps animals and plants survive.
Welcome to the world of extreme animals and plants! The series contains a mix of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, insects and plants, including the very fast, slow, big, small, weird, wonderful and gross. This book: helps readers to understand the requirements of every living organism; contains information on camouflage, non-indigenous animals and conservation; and also features spectacular photographs and amazing "Did you know" facts.
Welcome to the world of extreme animals and plants! The series contains a mix of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, insects and plants, including the very fast, slow, big, small, weird, wonderful and gross. This book: helps readers to understand the requirements of every living organism; contains information on camouflage, non-indigenous animals and conservation; and also features spectacular photographs and amazing "Did you know" facts.
What has thousands of feet and still cannot move fast? Which insect might beat you in a foot race? Which plant needs years and years to make a flower? Sailfish race through the oceans and sloths hardly move in their lifetimes. But these animals, along with some unusual plants, use their speed or slowness to survive in their own special habitats. In ‘Speedy and Slow’ you will learn how each way of living suits a particular species.
Welcome to the world of extreme animals and plants! The series contains a mix of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, insects and plants, including the very fast, slow, big, small, weird, wonderful and gross. This book: helps readers to understand the requirements of every living organism; contains information on camouflage, non-indigenous animals and conservation; and also features spectacular photographs and amazing "Did you know" facts.
Which lizard is less than three centimetres long? Would you like to see a toad as big as a cat? What animals is as long as a lorry, weighs more than one tonne and can hide so well that no one has ever seen one alive? Giant and Tiny will show you all of these creatures and more. You will even learn about flowers that you can only see with a microscope. This book is more than a listing of giant and tiny animals and plants. It is an exploration of how they survive the challenge of being so huge and small.
Which snake poops its way out of danger? Which fish slimes its way to safety? Why would a flower stink like rotten meat? ‘Gross and Gory’ will show you the unusual ways (all of them yucky) that plants and animals can be successful. From opossums that play dead to slugs that look like rotten bananas, you will see that in nature almost anything goes!