A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating
chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a
world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on
water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come
back from the dead, and virgin sharks give birth. Animals, writes
Emmanuelle Pouydebat, are lyric poets; they discover and shape the
world when they sing, dance, explore, and reproduce. The animal
kingdom has been evolving for millions of years, weathering many
crises of extinction; this book allows us to draw inspiration from
animals' enduring vitality. Pouydebat's text, accompanied by
striking color illustrations by artist Julie Terrazzoni, offers a
catalog of wondrous beings. Pouydebat describes the African bush
elephant-the biggest land mammal of them all, but the evolutionary
descendant of a tiny animal that stood less than fifty centimeters
(nineteen inches) high sixty million years ago; the scaly,
toothless pangolin, the world's most endangered mammal-and perhaps
its most atypical; the red-lipped batfish, which walks, rather than
swims, across the ocean floor; and the great black cockatoo, a
gifted percussionist. Chimpanzees, she tells us, self-medicate with
medicinal plants; the jellyfish, under stress, reverts to juvenile
polyp-hood; and the sweetly named honey badger feeds on reptiles,
termites, scorpions, and earthworms. Pouydebat, a researcher at the
French Museum of Natural History, and Terrazzoni capture the
astonishment promised by any excursion into nature-the happiness
that comes from watching a dragonfly, spider, frog, lizard,
elephant, parrot, mouse, orangutan, or ladybug. It's the joy of
witnessing life itself. We need only open our eyes to see.
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