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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

Genres

Animals Nature Non-fiction

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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