Animal adaptations
By Louise Spilsbury and Richard Spilsbury
How do animals turn trunks, spines and puffed-up bodies into astonishing survival tools?
informative · fascinating · accessible · illustrated
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What is Animal adaptations about?
Animals have incredible ways of surviving in the wild. Discover why elephants use their trunks, how thorny devils collect water with their spines and how pufferfish frighten predators by puffing up. Explore the clever adaptations that help animals find food, stay safe, move through their habitats and cope with challenging conditions. With fascinating examples from across the animal kingdom, this book reveals how bodies and behaviours can be perfectly suited to life in the wild.
About the author
Louise Spilsbury is a talented author who has written over 200 books for children. She loves making tricky topics easy to understand, from science and history to animals and the environment. Louise enjoys helping young readers discover new ideas and encourages everyone to be curious about the world around them.
Pages
32 pages
Reading age
Junior (8-13)
This edition
2021
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