There's a wide variety of earthly creatures on the earth, anything from beetles and fungi, reptiles and wild birds to hedgehogs, moles and domestic dogs and cats. Every one of these and more, play their part in the creation and maintenance of our planet. Find out about our natural world in our assorted range of nature books. Needless to say everybody can do their bit to make certain that the natural world continues to sustain life, not only the life of human beings but the miles and miles of plant life and forests, the birds and wildlife within it and not forgetting the polar ice caps, which is also home to a variety of animals, such as polar bears and penguins.
Our journey through the natural world starts with the beetle. A beetle is an insect which has a hard outer covering and with approximately 4,000 different species in the UK alone makes them the most common animal on earth. They feed on a wide variety of food which includes plants, fungi and leaf litter. Beetles come in a variety of different colours which provides camouflage from predators. The beetle family includes ladybirds, stag beetles, devils coach horses, whirligig beetles, woodworm (or furniture beetles), dung beetles, scarab beetles, weevils, water beetles and longhorn beetles.
We encounter nature everywhere we go and we are immediately surrounded by it as soon as we step foot outside, in our gardens, which gets visited by a variety of insects and birds every day, perhaps even nightingales. The nightingale feeds primarily on insects since they are insectivores and they also like to sing during the night as well as during the day. The majority of birds usually only sing once it is light.
They're cautious birds that live in open broad-leaved woodlands, heaths, coppices and thick undergrowth. Much like the beetles above their dull brown colour acts as good camouflage effectively making them more difficult to look at, nevertheless they will inevitably be heard on account of their distinctive song.
Because of its small, brown, spiky body the hedgehog possibly one of the most well known wild mammals. They are frequently spotted in parks and gardens under bushes and hedges in the daylight. Nevertheless once evening arrives they like to go off on the lookout for insect rich lawns and flower beds in an attempt to feed. Hedgehogs are known as the gardener’s best friend just because they like to chew on big, crunchy beetles, earthworms and slugs.
The badger is well recognisable particularly with its white and black striped face and is our biggest land predator. The badger family comprises of stoats, weasels and otters. The badger is known to be a night time animal and lives in a burrow also known as a sett. They will feed on small mammals, ground-nesting birds eggs, earthworms, fruit and roots and bulbs, which they dig up utilising their strong front paws.
Our journey concludes with the Amazon rainforest which presents itself as the ‘lungs of the earth’ as it's in a position to endlessly recycle carbon dioxide into oxygen delivering just about 20% of the world’s supply. The rainforest spreads over a billion acres of land so if it were classed as a country it would be about the ninth biggest in the natural world.
It is from the rainforest that nearly 80% of the developed world’s food originated giving us fruit, vegetables, spices, sugar cane, coffee and nuts such as Brazil and cashews. The rainforests not only provide some of the foods we eat but many of the plants there have been proven to be of great medicinal value and many of which have been found to be active against cancer cells.
The natural world is truly an amazing and inspiring place in which we can discover the many plants, animals and fungi that live all around us and the rocks, fossils and minerals inside the planet we walk on. It is possible to find out all about nature and wildlife in our range of books on the natural world so that you can be more informed about the environment all of us live in. As we can offer a wide range of books in all genres and formats there's no need to shop for books anywhere else. Buy books online at the best prices available.
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