Each highly illustrated section in this comprehensive volume provides detailed information on different aspects of animal life. Informative images show the animals in close-up, bringing to life the ordered world of the ant’s nest and getting up close to the rough texture of a puff adder’s scales and a leopard’s distinctive spots. Action shots capture the drama of swimming schools of hammerhead sharks and the emergence of a baby snake from its egg. Animal Kingdom:Life in the Wildenables you to study how animal anatomy works,using full-colour, cross-sectional diagrams to reveal bone structure, internal organs and muscular structure – and it shows how animal bodies have developed amazing physical characteristics in order to survive.