Wild Scientists: How animals and plants use science to survive

Description

This is not your normal nature book. By looking at animals and plants as scientists you get to understand their amazing skills and how they do the seemingly impossible! A look at animals and plants from the point of view of their amazing scientific adaptations. Join bestselling author Steve Mould to uncover nature's greatest scientists, engineers, and mathematicians from plants that can count to architect insects. If you thought all scientists wear white coats and work in labs, think again! Meet amazing engineers, such as the spiders who build immense webs from different kinds of silk; funky physicists, like the bats that can see with sound; and surprising chemists, such as the corpse flower that smells like smelly socks to attract insects to pollinate it! The science behind each genius adaptation is explained clearly in Steve Mould's trademark humorous style and you'll be amazed by nature's solutions to some of the world's trickiest problems. Wild Scientists is a brilliant introduction to some of nature's cleverest animals and plants. You'll never look at nature the same way again!

Steve Mould is a science presenter and comedian with a physics degree from the University of Oxford. He has a YouTube channel with over 500,000 subscribers and regularly appears as the science expert on shows including The One Show and Blue Peter. Steve also presents a BBC 4 radio show and is part of a live comedy/science trio called Festival of the Spoken Nerd.