For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator's
menu. So they've had to come up with lots of cunning ways to avoid being
eaten.
From camouflage and color-changing, natural armor, playing dead, great
escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting back,
the range of survival tactics in the natural world is quite astonishing
(and sometimes pretty disgusting).
How Not To Get Eaten is a fun introduction to the ingenious
antipredator strategies in the natural world. Discover how meerkats post
sentries to guard their homes and possums play dead, to how mimic
octopuses change their shape and bombardier beetles unleash a chemical
weapon attack. Perfect for children aged 7-9, the book is filled with
intriguing illustrations and spectacular photographs of the amazing,
obscure, and incredibly strange. You'll never look at nature the same
way again!