The Natural History Museum Book of Predators
Steve Parker
Witness the intriguing, exciting, awesome and often terrifying battles between predators and prey, in this eye-opening book.
Steve Parker brings you face to face with nature's deadliest creatures. They include not only world-famous big killers such as the tiger, polar bear, wolf, eagle and great white shark, but also the most venomous snakes, spiders and scorpions on Earth, as well as lesser-known yet just as lethal hunters - massive but stealthy anacondas, lurking alligators, innocent-looking sea wasps and coneshells, and small but fearsome dragonflies and praying manti.
The Natural History Museum Book of Predators explains exactly what makes an animal an effective hunter. It shows you the amazing senses that predators use to detect prey, uncovers their cunning traps and deadly poisons, and portrays the incredible arsenal of weapons including claws, teeth, jaws, spikes and horns. Steve Parker also delves into the lives of deadly pack hunters who co-ordinate their kills of large prey, exposes animals who steal meat from others rather than catch their own, and assesses the risks of people falling victim to a predator's power. Discover that it's not always strength, skill and cunning that decide whether an animal gets its meal or becomes one!
Published by Carlton Books in association with the Natural History Museum.
Key features
- Illustrates the many ingenious ways predators have evolved to perfect their hunting skills
- Brings you face to face with the largest and smallest predators from the praying mantis and dragonfly to the polar bear and great white shark
- Stunning photography throughout
- Authoritative text written in consultation with Museum experts
Contents
Predator world; Sensitive killers; Snares and poisons; Weapons of war; Team slayers; Cheats and part-timers; The game of death; Predators and people; Predator profiles.
About the author
Steve Parker is the author of more than 100 books on nature, biology and science, including The Human Body (Carlton). He has contributed to more than 50 others, including the massive, all-new Encyclopedia of Animals. He is a Scientific Fellow of the Zoology Society of London and has worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), the BBC, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum.
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Specifications
ISBN: 1 842 22 384 4
Price: £12.00
Format: Hardback
Size: 286 x 239 mm
Extent: 128 pp
Published: October 2001
Subject classification: Popular science; natural history; zoology; entomology
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