amazing living beings

A captivating documentary for readers aged 8 to 10, written by Claire Lecoeuvre and illustrated by Marta Orzel How to attract, bite, terrify, adapt, parade, disappear, communicate... This book delivers astonishing, amusing, sometimes frightening scientific information on the world of animals and plants. Do you know that the octopus plays with legos? That Japanese macaques wash sweet potatoes before eating them? That an elephant fish communicates by emitting electrical signals? That there are kamikaze ants? That before mating, the male scorpion anesthetizes his partner with his poison, to prevent her from killing him? That the largest flower in the world imitates the smell of carrion to attract flies?