The Usborne Book of Animals

Get up close with all kinds of animals - some you might already know, others you almost certainly won't. Discover how to identify a giraffe by its patterns, what makes a rattlesnake rattle, where a goldfish keeps its teeth and why slime oozes from a caecilian's skin. Diagrams unpick how a newt breathes underwater and what goes on inside eggs, while a quiz about beak shapes reveals which bird eats what. The details in the wildlife photos are so incredible, you'll feel as if you could stroke ...