Lavishly illustrated with dramatic close-up and time-lapse photography the Dorling Kindersley Animal Encyclopedia brings the animal world vividly to life - watch a frog leap through the air a moth hatch from its pupa a snake constrict its prey and stag beetles in combat. Magnificent full-page environment shots also display animals in their natural habitat from the barren wastes of the Sahara to the snowy wildernesses of the Himalayan mountains and to the tropical lagoons of the Great Barrier Reef.