Animal ultimate handbook
Book - 2022
"This ultimate kids' factbook includes must-know facts and stats about more than 200 species of animal, from where they live to how they communicate with one another, and much, much more. With modern, detailed illustrations and unique information confirmed by our own animal expert, this book is perfect for inquisitive, young animal lovers"--
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Trivia and miscellanea
Instructional and educational works - Published
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New York, New York :
DK Publishing
2022.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First American edition
- Item Description
- "The need-to-know facts and stats on more than 200 amazing animals"--Cover
Includes index. - Physical Description
- 352 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9780744056693
9780241538685
- How this book works
- What is an animal?
- Mammals
- What is a mammal?
- Sun bear & Giant panda
- Camel & Dramedary camel
- Vicuna & Wild ass
- Lion & Leopard
- Head-to-head! Cheetah vs. Cape springbok
- Ground pangolin & African hunting dog
- European hedgehog & Meerkat
- Wolvering & Brown-throated sloth
- Crested porcupine & Duck-billed platypus
- Koala & Red kangaroo
- Bottlenose dolphin & Narwhal
- Harbor seal & Walrus
- Amazonian manatee & Sea otter
- Snow leopard & Caracal
- Purna & Amur tiger
- The watering hole
- Head-to-head! Kangaroo rat vs. Cat flea
- Proboscis monkey & Emperor tamarin
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Slow loris & Quokka
- Southern giraffe & American bison
- Grizzly bear & Polar bear
- Moose & Reindeer
- Etruscan shrew & Kitti's hog nosed bat
- Communication
- Przewalski's horse & Plains zebra
- Blue whale
- Domesticated animals
- Eastern lowland gorilla & Sumatran orangutan
- Common chimpanzee & Human
- Head-to-head! American pygmy shrew vs. Bee hummingbird
- Capybara & Short-tailed chinchilla
- Mountain goat & Malayan tapir
- Amphibians
- What is an amphibian?
- Axolotl
- Green tree frog & Great crested newt
- Argentina horned frog & Mandarin salamnder
- Golden poison frog
- Head-to-head! Wallace's flying frog vs. Sunda colugo
- Red salamander & White's tree frog
- California newt & Tomato frog
- Chinese giant salamander
- Head-to-head! Striped rocket frog vs. Red kangaroo
- Leapfrog
- European fire salamander & Yellow-banded frog
- Red-eyed tree frog & Wood frog
- Skilled defenders
- Head-to-head! Dung beetle vs. African elephant
- Mudpuppy & Olm
- Mexican burrowing toad & Surinam toad
- Hairy frog & Purple frog
- Wallace's flying frog
- Fish
- What is a fish?
- Life on the reef
- Pacific sea nettle & Anglerfish
- Spotted eagle ray & Bennet's flying fish
- Red-bellied piranha & Leafy steadragon
- Atlantic mudskipper & Yellow boxfish
- Red lionfish & Green parrotfish
- Sea lamprey & Long-spine porcupinefish
- Head-to-head!
- Sydney funnel-web spider vs. Reef stonefish Tassled scorpionfish & Giant manta ray
- Stonfish & Catfish
- Long-snouted seahorse & Neon tetra
- Cownose ray & Giant oarfish
- Betta & Orange clownfish
- Australian ghost shark & Zebra shark
- Swordfish
- Head-to-head! Cuvier's beaked whale vs. Mariana snailfish
- Migration
- Psychedelic frogfish & X-ray fish
- Electric eel & European eel
- Head-to-head! Bowhead whale vs. Greenland shark
- Great white shark
- Longhorn cowfish
- Birds
- What is a bird?
- Wandering albatross
- Head-to-head! Arctic tern vs. Wildebeest
- California condor & Brown pelican
- Atlantic puffin & Snowy owl
- Greater flamingo & Secretary bird
- Andean condor
- Bee hummingbird
- Animal diets
- Emu & King penguin
- Mute swan & Blakiston fish owl
- Mandarin duck
- Common toucan & Common kingfisher
- Golden eagle & White-bellied sea eagle
- Head-to-head! Common swift vs. Mexican free-tailed bat Kookaburra & Frigatebird
- Scissor-tailed flycatcher & Long-tailed widowbird
- Great blue heron & Shoebill
- Master weavers
- Blue tit & Blue-throated hummingbird
- Common raven & Scarlet macaw
- Head-to-head! Eagle vs. Mantis shrimp
- Indian peafowl & Bald eagle
- Ostrich & Southern cassowary
- Red kite & Lappet-faced vulture
- Dinosaurs
- Crow & Starling
- Owlet nightjar & Tawny frogmouth
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Reptiles
- What is a reptile?
- Yellow bellied slider & green anole
- Banded sea krait & Green iguana
- Kuhl's flying gecko & Armadillo lizard
- Green sea turtle & Green basilisk
- Slow worm & Tokay gecko
- Spectacled caiman & King cobra
- Leatherback turtle & Flying dragon
- Five-lined skink & Golden tree snake
- Big headed turtle & American alligator
- Head-to-head! Sea turtle vs. Tardigrade
- Paradise tree snake & Bearded dragon
- Thorny devil & Rough green snake
- California legless lizard & Namaqua chameleon
- Gaboon viper & African shovel-snouted lizard
- Sandfish skink & Tuatara
- Texas thread snake & Jackson's chameleon
- Galápagos tortoise
- Classifying creatures
- Head-to-head! Saltwater crocodile vs. Great white shark
- Frilled lizard & Black mamba
- Komodo dragon
- Green anaconda
- Invertebrates
- What is an invertebrate
- Cobalt blue tarantula & European stag beetle
- Malayan frog beetle & Two-spot assassin bug
- Common wasp & Seven-spot ladybug
- Common octopus & Giant Pacific octopus
- Dung beetle
- Hercules beetle & Pine weevil
- Jewel beetle & Giant clam
- Atlas moth & Harlequin beetle
- Top teamwork
- Prime predators
- Termite & Glow worm
- Jewel scarab & Black widow
- Cockroach & Cicada
- Emperor scorpion & Arabian fat-tailed scorpion
- Goliath beetle & Darwin's beetle
- Madagascan moon moth & Giraffe weevil
- Humboldt squid
- Pacific sea nettle & Blue-ringed octopus
- Flat rock scorpion & Deathstalker scorpion
- Barrel jellyfish & Crown jellyfish
- Head-to-head! Moths vs. bats
- Insect camouflage
- Common lobster & Mimic octopus
- Coconut octopus & Lion's mane jellyfish
- Box jellyfish & Dumbo octopus
- Metamorphosis
- Violin beetle & Acorn weevil
- Gray's leaf insect & European mantis
- Animal extinction
- Save the animals
- Glossary
- Index
- Acknowledgments