World of Animals - Issue 8, 2014

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Название: World of Animals

Год / месяц: 2014

Номер: Issue 8

Формат: PDF (e-book)

Размер: 31.4 Mb

Язык: Английский

Experience amazing animals from around the globe with a new magazine dedicated to world wildlife and conservation. With breathtaking photography, captivating stories and stunning illustrations, each issue offers the safari of a lifetime that takes the reader on a fact-filled tour of the planet’s favourite wildlife, exploring the habitats, behaviour and societies of all Earth’s creatures, great and small.

What you didn't know about the ocean's most-feared predator

- A misunderstood giant of the deep, or calculated ice-cold killer? Discover more about the advanced adaptations and surprising attributes of the great white

Gal?pagos – The lost world

- Where else would you find the largest tortoise in the world, watch the strange dancing rituals of the blue-footed booby and get up-close with Earth's only swimming lizard? Take a trip to the wilderness haven that inspired Darwin's evolutionary theories, the Gal?pagos islands

Mountain gorillas – hidden apes

- Meet the endangered primates living at altitudes of up to 14,000 feet, in the cloud forests of Africa. Discover why they're on the brink of extinction and how you can get involved with the projects launched to help save them

Hyenas – surprising traits of the laughing villain

- You won't believe the incredible attributes of the animal kingdom's 'bad guy'. Discover unbreakable family bonds, a society built on respect and the unlikely intelligence that helps make hyenas Africa's most-successful predator

Also inside...

- An interview with wildlife TV presenter, Simon King

- Bison and man – how one creature helped shape America

- Amazing animals gallery

- Inside a mole burrow

- Save Rhinos Now campaign continues

- Tasmanian tiger – wolf-like marsupial

- Meet the family of peculiar pigs

- Indianapolis Zoo – an inner-city wildlife hub

- The evolution of the lion

- A Gentoo penguin's fascinating lifecycle

- Sunda colugo - a bizarre mammal with razor teeth

- The secrets of camouflage

- Fearless antics of the bulldog ant