An immortal jellyfish. Tool-using octopuses. Ants that save each other’s lives. Up Close presents thirty astonishing true stories from the animal kingdom, narrated by the animals themselves and brought to life through beautiful natural history illustrations. 

A celebration of curiosity, biodiversity and the amazing intelligence of the natural world.

"In this book you will find lots of behaviours and many different animals. Scientists believe that there are between five and ten million species of animals in the world, of which we have only discovered and named one-and-a-half million. There are many more that aren’t around anymore and we’ll never meet, like the tyrannosaurus or the mammoth. These wonderful animals disappeared many years ago, but others became extinct more recently. Some of the animals you’ll meet in this book could also disappear soon. If you look at the coloured dot next to their name, you’ll see how serious a risk of extinction there is for each species."