Life

Life Life , the spectacular companion volume to the new Discovery Channel/BBC series, tells a majestic and compelling story of survival and of the amazing behaviors animals and plants adopt to stay alive and pass their genes to a new generation. Beautifully written and illustrated with more than 300 high definition color photographs, Life focuses on the most exciting examples of the millions of species to demonstrate the harrowing and very different challenges that all living things must overcome to prevail and to procreate. In 60 concise and captivating vignettes, intriguingly grouped in categories like Extraordinary Sea Creatures, Fabulous Fish, Irrepressible Plants, Hot blooded Hunters, and Intellectual Primates, the authors provide the most up to date science. Each chapter parallels an episode of the television series, making Life a must have addition to any interested viewer's library. From the familiar to the rare polar bears, Japanese snow macaques, monarch butterflies, and fish catching bats, a mega roost of 10 million fruit bats in Zambia, capuchin monkeys that use stone tools, marine life beneath and upon the ice of Antarctica, and tiny goby fish that climb Hawaiian waterfalls this sumptuous volume brims with information and unforgettable images of the spectacular, the dangerous, and the bizarre.

Introduction 8
Location map 14
1 Extraordinary sea creatures 16
2 Fabulous fish 46
3 Irrepressible plants 66
4 Insect ingenuity 90
5 Frogs, serpents and dragons 126
6 Brilliant birds 156
7 Winning mammals 190
8 Hot blooded hunters 226
9 Intellectual primates 262
Index 306