dangerous animals

Full-color, illustrated photographs of small, but deadly creatures including the puffer fish and piranhas, killer frogs and spiders, and the common mosquito.

Explore 12 species that you hope you'll never come across, from sharks, snakes, jellyfish, bears, tigers and mosquitoes.

This book describes animals struggling to survive in the oceans, such as killer whales, tiger sharks, box jellyfish, sea anemones, blue-ringed octopuses, cone shells, yellow-bellied sea snakes, sea otters, barracudas, stonefish, leopard seals, and moray eels.

Provides vital statistics, facts, descriptions, and photographs of dangerous animals that live in desert habitats, including scorpions, gila monsters, meerkats, ghost bats, desert horned vipers, and others.

Describes the physical characteristics, defenses, and hunting tactics of twelve polar and mountain animal species, including cougars, walruses, wolverines, and snowy owls.

Describes the physical characteristics, defenses, and hunting tactics of fourteen grassland species, including lions, elephants, martial eagles, eastern brown snakes, and tsetse flies.

Describes the physical characteristics, defenses, and hunting tactics of twelve forest and woodland species, including grizzly bears, Eurasian cuckoos, common adders, and European wasps.

Presents an introduction to the creatures that live in a tropical rain forest, in simple text with illustrations, including jaguars, crocodiles, poison-dart frogs, army ants, piranhas, snakes, and more.

Discusses insects that can be called killers, including rat fleas, bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets, killer bees, tsetse flies, mosquitoes, army ants, and the kissing bug.

Describes various kinds of dangerous animals, such as lions, piranhas, killer bees, and vampire bats.