Our latest Book on the Bird Table is Can Jellyfish Live Forever? by experts from the Natural History Museum in London.
Together, they’ve based the book on the weirdest facts known to the museum, as well as questions that visitors are always desperate to have answered.
Each page leads with a fascinating question – essentially a fun family reference book in Q&A format – revealing some of the most bizarre facts that can be found in the natural world. These include unusual animal behaviour such as ‘Why do rabbits eat their own poo?’ and intriguing environmental questions such as ‘Why does rain smell?’
Over the years, experts at the Natural History Museum have seen, heard and answered it all. Can Jellyfish Live Forever? is a wonderfully weird collection of questions and answers that are altogether jaw-dropping, intriguing and enlightening.
Packed with colour photography, the book reveals tales of the unexpected from every corner of the natural world, with other queries including:
- How do polar bears stay warm?
- Can dolphins talk to each other?
- How clever is an octopus?
- Which animal has spines in its mouth?
- Why do goats scream and faint?
- Will an asteroid hit Earth?
- Why are flamingos pink?
- Do octopuses dream?
Can Jellyfish Live Forever? is the perfect book for young readers who love to ask questions and explore the wonders of nature and science.
It is suggested as suitable for key stage 2 and upwards, but would be equally as valuable reading together with younger children.
A great way to encourage enquiring minds of any age!
About the Natural History Museum
With more than 80 million specimens, the scope of the museum’s collections is simply vast including the ill-fated dodo, dazzling diamonds and a full-size blue whale model. The Library of the Museum holds half a million artworks, comprising one of Britain’s biggest art collections, and over one million books, including rare, richly illustrated antique volumes.
Can Jellyfish Live Forever? is available from bookstores including:
Can Jellyfish Live Forever?: And many more wild and wacky questions from nature
£9.19
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