Natural History Museum Book of Animal Records
By Mark Carwardine.
Description
Here are the achievers and the unique from the animal world: mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes and invertebrates. These are not only familiar records like highest, fastest, largest, these are the unusual, such as slowest growth (the deep sea clam), most pecks in a day (black woodpecker), noisiest bird (booming Kakapo) and worst climber (western fence lizards fall out of their oak tree homes about 12,000 times a year). There are myth-busters -- centipedes have the most legs, not millipedes, and fascinating stories -- two "dead" specimens of desert snail were glued ...
ISBN(s)
1770852697, 9781770852693
