Life Cycles: Desert

Explore the strange ecosystems of ultra-dry deserts in a visually breathtaking guide to the animal life that they support. This beautiful science book will delight young animal-lovers, showing how a seemingly hostile terrain in fact sustains an amazing array of living creatures. Following ten animals, including the much-loved meerkat, it strikingly shows how their survival is interlinked, depicting their separate life cycles and then linking them together to create three food chains. Finally, a simple summary reveals how these three food chains interact to create a food web. With clear text and bold, dramatic photographs, this is a captivating and surprising look at life in the desert.