Contents Introduction SENSORY WONDERS Electric Eel: Dangerous Voltage Tarsiers: Night Vision Platypus: Electricity Detection Jumping Spider: Panoramic Sight Common Octopus: Super Intelligence Horseshoe Bats: Radar Echo Stoat: Seasonal Transformation METAMORPHOSIS Stick and Leaf Insects: Total Invisibility Chameleons: Color Imitation Hover Flies: Protective Disguise Starling: Making Holograms in the Sky Peacock Butterfly: Optical Illusion Pangolins: Fearsome Armor Strawberry Poison-dart Frog: Powerful Repelling Puss Moth Caterpillar: Scary Mask SKILLED MOVERS Peregrine Falcon: as Fast as a High-speed Train Flying Squirrel: Flying Without Wings Cheetah: Record-holding Acceleration Sloths: Extremely Slow Motion Swift: Unbreakable Endurance Plumed Basilisk: Running on Water Hummingbirds: Flying Backward Geckos: Walking on the Ceiling Squid: Jet Propulsion SUPER ADAPTERS Clownfish: Resistance to Poison Emperor Penguin: Temperature Regulation Axolotl: Self-regeneration Hedgehog: Living in the Slow Lane Tardigrades: Indestructibility Dromedary: Going Without Water Flatfish: Wandering Eyes Wood Frog: Antifreeze Mary River Turtle: Butt-breathing ATTRACTING A MATE Cuckoo: Identity Theft Satin Bowerbirds: Making Himself Look Bigger Fireflies: Charming Light-giver Salmon: Intrepid Traveling Stag Beetle: Super Strength HUNTING POWER Woodpeckers: Beak Like a Hammer Kingfisher: Precision Diving Pelicans: Cooperative Fishing Banded Archerfish: Spitting Into the Air Bearded Vulture: Immaculate Cleaning Sea Otter: Using Cutlery Anglerfish: Fatal Attraction Picture Credits.