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|author=DK

|title=Knowledge Encyclopedia: Animal!

|rating=4.5

|genre=Children's Non-Fiction

|summary=The encyclopedia may be an informative type of book, but it's not always the most interesting. A series of dry facts plastered all over the page with nary an image in sight. This dry type of learning is never going to work with some of our modern youth, more used to spending time looking for imaginary animals on their phones, than researching real ones in a book. If you want to capture their attention, you must first draw their eyes. DK have attempted this in one of the most colourful and vibrant encyclopedias you are likely to see.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228417</amazonuk>

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{{newreview

|author= Derek Niemann

|summary=I don't want to alarm anyone, but I think it fair to warn you that there are aliens all around us; weird and wonderful ones at that. Take symbions for example. They attach themselves to a host by means of a sucker and propagate by budding. They then move on to the next life stage and become either male or female. The male sheds its mouth and anus and goes of to search for a female. Once the female is impregnated, her digestive system morphs into a larva which breaks free from her when she dies. This may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the truth is that we share our planet with millions of strange life forms; each perfectly suited to survive and thrive in its own environment.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722435</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Richard Girling~~

~~|title=The Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small and Why They Matter~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Animals and Wildlife~~

|summary=At age 15, on a camping trip to Dartmoor, Richard Girling had an epiphany. It was the first time that he had felt himself to be a part of nature, that the environment really mattered to him. As a big picture person, however, this had never translated into an affinity for individual species, even though he became a longstanding environmental writer for the ''Sunday Times''. That is, until he came across a mysterious listing for the Somali golden mole in a mammal encyclopaedia. This creature has never been seen in the wild, except as a few bones in an owl pellet found by an Italian zoologist in 1964. For some reason, the golden mole captured Girling's imagination, becoming a symbol of rarity and the fragility of mammals' existence.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099571935</amazonuk>~~

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