The Hunt for Food by Michael Chinery

The Hunt for Food by Michael Chinery

Focuses on the special adaptations that animals make to hunt food, and explores the similarities and differences between the various species. Examines the link between diet, adaptations and environment clearly, bringing the subject to life with amazing colour photography. An ideal reference book for 8 - 12-year-olds that supports school studies on life processes in the natural world. Animals live to hunt and hunt to live. Food is imperative to their survial and dictates the shape of its body, where it lives and its behaviour. This lively book gives insight into the diets of all types of animals, presenting a huge range, from beetles to elephants and birds of prey to whales. It explains the special problems each animal faces and the ways they have evolved to cope with their diet. Learn how animals of varying size base their hunting methods on the same theory - the element of surprise. The Hunt for Food includes many fascinating facts and is a fun supplement to school studies.

Michael Chinery studied botany, zoology, geology, and anthropology at Cambridge University. As a freelance editor and writer, Michael has contributed numerous articles to natural history magazines, written and edited definitive field guides, and has acted as a natural history consultant for Lorenz Children's Books.

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ISBN 13	9781844760602
ISBN 10	184476060X
Title	The Hunt for Food
Author	Michael Chinery
Series	Amazing Animals
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Anness Publishing
Year published	2004-11-26
Number of pages	64
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