Wildlife expert Éanna Ní Lamhna and artist Brian Fitzgerald explore the WONDERS OF THE WILD
Nature has lots of hidden treasures. From rabbits eating their own poo to what feeds on humans and how caterpillars burst! Discover animal-eating plants, what rises from the dead, sealife that glows in the dark, and many more weird and wonderful surprises from nature.
• Spiders Are Cannibals; Eating Their Own Poo (rabbits)
• Eating Until They Burst (Caterpillars)
• Forever Flying (Swifts)
• The Importance of Colour (ladybirds, Cinnabar moth)
• Pretending To Be Something Else (caterpillars looking like poo, twigs, snakes)
• Bees as the Goody Goodies; Wasps Are Not Baddies
• Why Frogs Don’t Drown
• Rising from The Dead (dog’s vomit slime mould and other weird things you might find)
• Slimy and Slithery (slug surprises)
• War Cries and Love Songs (why birds sing)
• The Bird with No Nest (cuckoo imposter)
• A Very Short Childhood (chicks literally leaping into the unknown)
• Squirrels Don’t Hibernate
• Bats and Their Superpowers; A Dirty Job (bluebottles in action)
• The Flower Prison (trapping flies)
• Dinner with Difficulty (birds that fish for good but can’t swim)
• Animals We Love to Hate (badgers, gulls, magpies, foxes)
• They Feed on Human Blood (from lice to fleas)
• Glowing Underwater (amazing underwater world)
• Mancatchers – Amphibians or Reptiles? (lizards and newts)
• Going Sideways (crabs, lobsters going backwards)
• Defended by Prickles (hedgehogs)
• Plants that Eat Animals
• Do Cuckoos Spit? (the froghopper)
• Washed Up from the Depths (what you might find on the beach and what is it?)
• Slowcoaches (animals that did not make it to Ireland).