This book is part of a book series called Nature Fact File .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by Anness Publishing .

Michael Chinery studied botany, zoology, geology and anthropology at Cambridge University, England. He has worked as an editor on a science magazine for young people, and on a British television wildlife magazine. As a freelance editor and writer her has contribute numerous articles to natural history magazines. Barbara Taylor is an experienced children's non-fiction writer. Her previous books for Watts include the Science Starters series.