What Lives on Other Animals?

Why is your pet dog always scratching? And why does your goldfish look a stange colour? It's the bugs that latch on to them to suck their blood and chew on their flesh. There are thousands of parasites that live on other animals. Many are just hitching a ride, but others literally dig themselves in and set up home - and some of them are getting away with murder! Flesh-eating maggots, flea-eating beetles, hitch-hiking mites - this fascinating book is packed with incredible facts, gory details and amazing electron microscope photograps of weird and wonderful creatures. Learn about the nasties that depend on other animals' guts, blood and even brains for their own lives, and the fellow travellers who work with their hosts to fight for survival - you'll never look at your pet inthe same way again. It's a rough world out there and only the tough, or the parasitic, survive! // Packed with a wealth of superbly magnified colour photos and written in a grippingly authoritative style, this book introduces children to the fascinating domain of bugs and insects. Each title contains fact boxes, games and quizzes.