The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet: and Other True Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World

By Michael Bright

Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate.

Then we come across the extreme travellers: the highest flyers, the deepest divers and the fastest runners. But which animal is the most venomous, and which the most dangerous? Which has the loudest voice, the longest tongue, the biggest eyes or the most powerful bite? How do animals tell the time? How did the zebra get those stripes? And what is the most mysterious animal on Earth?

The Frog with Self-cleaning Feet is a miscellany of fascinating animal anecdotes, facts and figures. The weird, the wonderful and the downright unbelievable of the animal world - you couldn't make it up!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Biteback Publishing
• Release date: Jan 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781785905612

Michael Bright

Michael Bright is an executive producer with the BBC's natural history unit and has written scores of books about the natural world, including Man-Eaters and The Pocket Book of Weather. He lives in Bristol, England.