The Golden Mole

A gloriously illustrated and fascinating bestiary of the world's most extraordinary endangered animals a treasure trove of vanishing wonders. A pangolin's tongue is longer than its body. It keeps it furled in a nifty pouch near the hip A swift flies 200,000 miles in its lifetime. That's far enough to get to the moon and back then back to the moon. There's a fable that storks deliver babies. In fact, the Nazis used them to airdrop propaganda. Each of these animals is extraordinary. And each of them may soon disappear from the earth.