Natural History Museum Book of Animal RecordsNatural History Museum Book of Animal Records
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Book, 2013
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Current format, Book, 2013, , Available now. Offered in 0 more formatsFrom an award-winning zoology writer and the experts at the National History Museum in London comes 256 pages packed with thousands of fascinating facts, animal records and stunning photographs. Here are the achievers from all animal groups: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates. These achievements are not only the familiar ones like highest, fastest, best sense of smell and most colourful, but the unusual, like man-eating, most vegetarian, least toes. Most bizarre defence, highest g-force and strangest ribs. In fact, almost all the records are extraordinary, like midwife bats, the many blood-eating species in all animal orders and the only primate with echolocation (the aye-aye). Many others dispel myths about animals, like centipedes having the most legs, not millipedes. The mammals, amphibians, reptiles and invertebrates are organized by animal order, family and species. Birds are organized by category. The records relate to many characteristics, for example, for Camelidae (camels and llamas) the facts include their domestication, the altitude at which they live, the largest and the smallest, and how the various species have adapted to their habitat. Exceptionality is within each category rather than the entire Animal Kingdom, so in mammals, the largest bat is the flying bat but the largest of all mammals is the elephant, and the largest of all animals is the blue whale. AUTHOR: Zoologist Mark Carwardine is an award-winning writer, widely published photographer and TV and radio presenter. 240 colour photos
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- Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, c2013.
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