In this exciting and at the same time entertaining book, from the same team that created the bestseller "The Book of Total Ignorance", we will meet 100 animals, some supposedly familiar, others clearly mysterious, but all interesting. The European eels that swim thousands of kilometers to and from Bermuda, the tentacles of octopuses that continue to move a month after being cut off, the mites that are so small that they live inside the throats of bees, or the "water bears" with eight legs, which can remain in a state of suspended animation for over a century - all these are even more surreal than the wildest fantasies of medieval naturalists. Only they are true.

Based on scientific facts, without being a scientific treatise, this book focuses on some amazing qualities of animals: We not only learn about some incredible behaviors, but we also see (through the clever illustrations by engineer Ted Dewan) how animals "work". The variety in the animal kingdom is so vast that the reader soon begins to realize that anything can happen in life.