Kids will love learning about the ways in which animals are related to each other in this beautifully illustrated book!

This is a resource book for teaching about animals in comparison to human beings.

Illustrated commentaries provide general and essential information on all animal phyla and genera and representative species, from unicellular forms to the primates.

This book is about all aspects of man’s contact with the animal world; sacrifice, sacred animals, diet, domestication, in short, from the sublime to the mundane.

Destined to be the ultimate authority on animal behavior, this book also looks at key behavioral concepts such as how animals learn to behave and the role of instinct in the learning process.

Sections include: • Animal Evolution • Invertebrates: insects, molluscs, • Vertebrates: fish, reptiles, birds, mammals • Ecology and conservation Featuring superb full-color wildlife photography as well as a range of diagrams and ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.