The elephant's trunk is truly amazing, packed with around 150,000 muscle units. It can do everything from picking up a tiny grain of rice to performing heavy-duty tasks like uprooting trees.

From the puffed-up porcupine fish on the cover to the enormous elephant endpapers, the paper-over-board Amazing Animal Facts: A Visual Guide to the World's Most Incredible Creatures by Jacqui Bailey ...

Photographic reference with facts about twenty-five hundred animal species that detail animal habitats, life cycles, and conservation efforts. Includes glossary and separately paged section at the end ...