WILD BABIES: Photographs of Baby Animals

Beautiful and heart-warming photographs of newborn animals, the book is an intimate look at the early days in a wild baby's life. From an adorably gangly giraffe calf, a wide-eyed elephant seal pup, a playful pair of opossum joeys, an innocent-eyed fluffy zebra, a ruby-throated hummingbird which will take its first flight at 18-22 days old and live a solitary life coming together only to mate, the elusive baby pigeon or squab with its sparce canary yellow downy feathers, and a tiny curled up pink weasel at five days old, and another with shiny black eyes and fur at six weeks old, meerkats, seal pups, a racoon, red fox, cotton-tailed rabbits, and a beautiful red and black striped painted turtle - for each there is not only a full page or double spread colour photograph, but short entries of facts and a longer introduction to the portraits of more than 30 baby animals. 136pp, colour.