Extreme Nature: The Weirdest Animals and Plants on the Planet - Softcover

Carwardine, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061373893 ISBN 13: 9780061373893

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

smelliest plant
best water-walker
longest migration
hairiest animal
best surfer
tiniest mammal
longest tongue
fastest swimmer
sharpest sense of smell
strangest society
hottest animal
flashiest males
slimiest animal
fastest digger
loudest bird call
slipperiest plant
stickiest skin
deadliest love-life
largest animal ever
oldest leaves
fattest carnivore
deepest-living animal
sleepiest animal

About this title

Review:

'The commentries may be pacey, bite-sized and sensational, but they are also intelligent and informed.'
BBC Wildlife

'A mind-blowing glossy hardback that would make for exciting viewing on any coffee table'
Royal Wings

'The text by marine biologist Mark Carwardine is the real star of the show...a wonderful fact-loaded book...you start reading, and you just can’t stop!'
Outdoor Photography

'The strange-but-true revelations in this beautifully presented book will fascinate'
Sunday Times Travel Magazine

From the Author:

Extreme Nature is about some of the most intriguing, supernatural, out of the ordinary and extreme plants and animals on the planet. A fish that can change sex, a frog that gives birth through its mouth and a flower that smells so bad it makes people faint in the motley collection of weird and wonderful creatures included in the book.

Extreme Nature was written with the invaluable help of over 150 scientists working in all corners of the globe. With their generous assistance, in just a few sentences it's been possible to summarise some of the highlights of many years, sometimes decades of research. Thanks to them, if you've ever wondered which animal has the best colour vision, if a millipede really does have a thousand legs, how fast a falcon can swoop, or which is the world's most dangerous snake, this is the place to look.

Any such study of extreme nature is inevitably full of surprises and when it comes to superlatives there is always another record-breaker just round the corner. But while there is little doubt that few of the records we've included are the absolutes, in one way or another all animals and plants have something exceptional about them that deserves our attention.

Ultimately, the aim of the book is simply to revel in these other-worldly creatures and their outlandish behaviour. We hope you enjoy being wowed by some of their exploits.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061373893
• ISBN 13: 9780061373893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320