Great British Marine Animals - 3rd Edition by Paul
Naylor ISBN: 978[zasłonięte][zasłonięte]22831 Great British Marine Animals
is an eye-opening celebration of the wonderful variety
of animals that live in the seas around Britain. These
creatures are colourful and visually appealing, and also
show amazing versatility in their behaviour and
lifestyles. So many of them, even those that can seem
mundane at first glance, have intriguing and surprising
ways of getting food, defending themselves, reproducing
and interacting with one another. Beautiful sea anemones
seize their prey with superbly armed tentacles,
seemingly invincible crabs hide away while shedding
their armour suits to grow, inoffensive-looking starfish
exert huge forces to open up mussels and some fish can
simply change sex when the situation demands. Great
British Marine Animals is based on high quality
underwater photographs and is designed to both aid
identification of a wide range of common animals, and to
give you an insight into their lives. It is written for
anyone who loves the sea, enjoys exploring beaches or is
interested in wildlife.This is what reviewers said about
the 1st edition of Great British Marine Animals: -
Naylor's photographs disclose a world that is intensely
colourful not only in the visual sense, but also because
of the behaviour of its varied inhabitants.A" The
Independent - photos - are all excellent - essential
reading for anyone who wants a bit more than a name for
a sea creature.A" BBC Wildlife - highly recommended to
all with an interest in our native marine life.A"
British Wildlife A magical book crammed with colourful
photography of marine life round the UK shore.A" The
Teacher If I were to recommend a single species guide to
UK divers, this would be the one.A" DIVE magazine The
expanded 3rd Edition has details of 30 extra species,
240 new photographs and a foreword by The Wildlife
Trusts and the Marine Conservation Society.With 320
pages and 600 colour photographs in total, there are
details of the following types of marine animal:
Sponges, cnidarians, sea anemones, corals, hydroids,
jellyfish, worms, crustaceans, crabs, lobsters, prawns,
shrimps, barnacles, molluscs, chitons, sea snails, sea
slugs, bivalves, cuttlefish, octopus, squid,
echinoderms, starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sea
cucumbers, feather stars, sea squirts, fish including
sharks, rays, eels, cod, pipefish, sea scorpions,
gurnards, clingfish, mullet, bass, weevers, wrasse,
blennies, gobies and flatfish. |
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