The Wildlife Companion

Companion

by Malcolm Tait

The Wildlife Companion is for anyone who has ever heard a bird sing, watched a moth flutter against a light, or ambled through a bluebell wood and wondered, just for a moment, how such a diverse and beautiful natural world could possibly have come about. Just leaf through these pages and discover the real truth about lemmings, how ladybugs retract their wings, the bizarre mating habits of dragonflies, how Aristotle cured elephants of insomnia, and how to say “blackbird” in Klingon. The Wildlife Companion will introduce you to a Cawdy Mawdy, a Mouldiwarp, a Hornywink, a Fiddle Dock, and more than 500 more animal amazements, ornithological oddities, and botanical beauties.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Animals

158 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2004

Reviews

[Irene Lázaro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este libro pide a gritos que lo lleves en la mochila en tus excursiones al campo y leas un par de páginas cuando descanses sentado en una piedra, cuando más lo he disfrutado ha sido leyéndolo al aire libre. Es probablemente el libro más inglés que he leído nunca, según cómo seas, esto puede ser una recomendación o una advertencia.

[Melody · Rating 5 out of 5]

Discarded library book.
Very British. No wonder no one read the book.
Also very weird in format and content for American reader.
Still, I persevered and enjoyed it. Especially the “funny frogs.”

[Dayna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too British. For some reason, this made me uninterested. Not sure why.

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyed this book, was a very pleasant read with some great little titbits that are amusing, interesting and intriguing (and great for impressing you mates with).