Melvin Berger

Simple text and photographs depict the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitats of different kinds of bats, as well as various myths about this flying mammal.

Questions and answers explore such topics as what the dinosaurs were, what they ate, what color they were, and how we know about them.

Describes the characteristics of spiders and the methods they use to trap their prey in webs.

"Did you know that the blue whale, the world's largest animal, is as big as three school buses and weighs as much as twenty-seven elephants? Or that a sea wasp is so poisonous, its venom can kill up to sixty human adults? Can you believe that the silk moth caterpillar's appetite is so enormous that it can eat more that than 1,000 times its weight each day?"--Amazon.