Wild Scientists: How animals and plants use science to survive

Subjects

Facts & Information - lists, stats and plenty of facts

Average rating

4 out 5

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!

I have read this book

The book is about lots of facts about animals and plants, like snails are masters of slime! I liked this book!

Professor Crocodile Moonbeam 12.09.2025

This fabulous non fiction has really been teaching me all about animals, thanks to Steve Mould. It had lots of facts about animals, and what they do and what they make and all of those things about them. The book was full of creative colours as well. I would really recommend this colourful book to anyone over seven, because Steve has used his great imagination to create such a informational book.

Master Muscles Remmington 15.07.2024

I like it because it tells me about animals and plants especially when it tells me about the bat and how they use echos to make up a picture around them

Coach Fenella Stegosaurus 30.08.2023

This factual book interested me by telling how different species of animals survive from being the prey and how they protect themselves. The most interesting part about this book was when the Peacock Mantis Shrimp had punched crustaceans in order to get their food. I would recommend this book to animal and plant lovers keen to read how individual animals defend themselves.

Anonymous 26.07.2023