Walking with Prehistoric Beasts
by DK Publishing, Tim Haines
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Author: DK Publishing, Tim HainesEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11
ISBN: 0789478293
Number of pages: 240
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: DK ADULT
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Book Review: Excellent follow up to Walking With Dinosaurs
Summary: 4 Stars
As the author of 'Walking with Beasts' points out, although in the ecosystems of the world the mammals succeeded the dinosaurs, it is the dinosaurs that have been the true successes in terms of their representation in fiction, in museums and in our imaginations. Well, 'Walking With Beasts' allows us to become better acquainted with our not so familiar 'fur-ball' ancestors. Using a similar format to the immensely popular 'Walking With Dinosaurs', six selected time-slots of the last 65 million years are recreated in a wildlife documentary format. As you would expect, the CGI pictures in the book and taken from the television series are of the highest quality and often verge on the photo-realistic. The structure of each chapter where the text focuses on the life of a particular animal makes the book that much more readable, as an actual story unfolds and we are drawn into the drama of the creature's interactions with its family group, prey and predators. The choices for the featured animals range from the more predictable: sabre-toothed cats, mammoths and the ancestral hominid Australopithecus to the more unusual: Basilosaurus an ancient whale, and even non-mammals such as the giant predatory bird Gastornis. Overall, the book is a visual delight and seeks to depict the animals it features and the environments they live in as accurately as possible based on the scientific facts known, and fills in the unknowable with sensible conjecture. Rewarding for all ages and, although hardly an exercise in academia, the wonderful reconstructions represent excellent interpretations of the skeletons familiar to students of palaeontology . For readers who'd like to take the next step into a slightly more technical read a good choice might be 'The Velvet Claw', which features the history of the Carnivora, and was another BBC series.
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