Animals by Design
By David Burnie
1993
First Published
46
Number of Pages
A look at why animals have developed the way they have and how their form is related to the ways they live, showing how the various attributes of different animals have a specific function, and describing how many sophisticated man-made inventions were invented in response to a problem encountered in the animal world, with colour artwork.
Author
David Burnie
Author · 36 books
David Andrew Burnie is an accomplished zoologist who was a nature reserve ranger before becoming a natural history author and editor. A prolific writer of many books, including several on dinosaurs, he has seen many of his titles win educational awards and science prizes. His titles for Kingfisher include Kingfisher Knowledge: Endangered Planet and The Kingfisher Illustrated Dinosaur Encyclopedia, which was nominated for the Aventis Prize for Science Books in 2002.
