Creatures of the Night

A spectacular collection of animals who are at home in the dark.

Creatures of the Night features more than a dozen extraordinary animals that live in the dark. These are mammals, birds, insects and spiders whose unique physical features help them to survive in the pitch-black darkness of jungles, fields and in the air.

The animals featured include:

• Aye-aye -- A lifetime spent in rain forest trees where they curl up to sleep during the day
• Common Glow-worm -- Bioluminescent beetle that doesn't look like a beetle
• Fungi -- More closely related to animals than plants, fungi "expand" (rather than grow) over a damp night
• Kinkajou -- Night-roaming cousin of raccoons
• Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula -- Hunts at night, capturing insects, frogs, lizards and mice
• Net-casting spider -- A huge pair of forward-facing eyes help it to see at night
• Railroad worm -- The only animal that is naturally bioluminescent in the red spectrum
• Vampire bat -- Day-sleepers that hunt during the darkest part of the night.

Intricately drawn artworks give accurate details of each animal's anatomy and behavior, and stunning photographs show how each animal hunts.

A background in science, education and journalism has been the perfect foundation for author Camilla de la Bedoyere. She studied zoology and geology at Bristol University, and has subsequently written or edited more than 200 books for children and adults, many of which aim to explain and explore the natural world and our relationship with it.