Jack Ashby
Author
Language
English
Description
Scientifically informed and funny, a firsthand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals-and how our perceptions impact their future.
Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. Or a wombat: Their teeth never stop growing, they poop cubes, and they defend themselves with reinforced rears. And what about antechinuses-tiny marsupial...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From a single beginning, countless millions of stories from the animal kingdom have - and continue to - run their course.
Museum objects allow us to investigate some of those stories. Animal Kingdom journeys through both the evolutionary history of animals, and the ways that people have interpreted them in museums. Animals in museums are not only representatives of their entire species, but they also tell us something about the time in which they...