Animals Assemble

Meet our planet’s hungry hordes, mahoosive mobs, phenomenal flocks, sensational swarms and astounding animal assemblies in this breathtakingly illustrated book.Animals get together for all sorts of reasons, from bringing up babies to seeking safety in numbers.Most are perfectly happy living in small groups, perhaps with ten or a hundred others. But, in very special cases, some species will group up in thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, billions or even trillions! And when they do, the results are always spectacular ...Animals Assemble introduces children to the most immense and awe-inspiring animal gatherings across all seven continents of the globe. Meet the colossal colonies of chinstrap penguins from Antarctica, the massive migrations of wildebeest in Africa, flurries of flashing fireflies from Asia, bustling bat caves in America, armies of ants under Europe and remarkable reef-dwellers off the coast of Australia. With fascinating facts and jaw-dropping stats, this groundbreaking book is the ultimate proof that, when it comes to animal assemblies, BIGGER really is BETTER!