Display: Appearance, posture and behaviour in the animal kingdom [Hardcover]

Discover nature’s most colourful creatures in a major new book on colour in the animal kingdom.

For many animalsuse of colour is essential to surviving in the wild. Both a built-in defence mechanism and a cunning tactic for attack, this biological advantage helps animalshide from dangerous predatorsandcatch unsuspecting prey. It is used in many different ways, primarily to mask one’s identity, movement or location, and changes over time as animals evolve and adapt to live.

Thisstunning photographic collectionreveals 100 creatures from around the world paired with fascinating insights fromleading UK zoology author Steve Parker. Each animal will have a profile of 300 words paired with striking photographic examples featuring a wealth of colour and ingenious uses of colour for display or disguise.

Learn how:

• The octopuscan change its opacity, colour and pattern in response to threats.
• The walking leaf insecthas evolved a strikingly similar shape and colour to the leaves it eats.
• The arctic foxchanges its fur colour to white in the winter, perfectly blending in with the snow – but climate change is disrupting this age-old adaptation.