First two paragraphs:
THE AMAZING LONG AGO
ALL ANIMALS are amazing, really. They would have to be, to keep on living in a world where so many things are against them-heat and cold and storms, forest fires and floods and droughts, other animals, and sometimes even people, who hunt them and move into their living places.
Some animals are extra amazing, because of their strange appearance, the special ways they are built, the peculiar places they live, the extraordinary things they do. Animals that can roll themselves into hard balls of armor when danger threatens; animals who walk around with built-in water tanks and emergency rations; animals who live upside down all their lives; animals who can do things you'd scarcely believe possible–those are the animals this book is about.
Contents
Chapter 1 THE AMAZING LONG AGO
Chapter 2 MODEL T MAMMALS
Chapter 3 ANIMALS WITH POUCHES
Chapter 4 TOOTHLESS-MORE OR LESS
Chapter 5 TALL AND THIN
Chapter 6 SHORT AND WIDE
Chapter 7 THICK-SKINNED AND STUPID
Chapter 8 HARD-WORKING GIANTS
Chapter 9 BAD-TEMPERED-BUT USEFUL
Chapter 10 THE COLDER, THE BETTER
Chapter 11 THE BUILDERS
Chapter 12 CLOSE RELATIVES
Chapter 13 THE FLIERS
Chapter 14 THE VERY BIGGEST
Chapter 15 IN AGAIN, OUT AGAIN
Chapter 16 ODD ONES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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