Mike Dilger

Nature’s Babies


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      To the Browns – an amazing family of naturalists… and come to think of it, an amazing family as well.

      CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

       BORN IN THE FREEZER

       HITCHHIKING BABIES

       A LONG CHILDHOOD

       BORN STRIPY

       MEERKATS UNITED

       BIG BROTHER

       PRICELESS BABIES

       GREEDY GUZZLERS

       THE FEMININE TOUCH

       BORN TO CUDDLE

       IN THE FAMILY WAY

       OCEAN-GOING BABIES

       BABY BANDITS

       MINI FLIPPERS

       GOLDEN TWINS

       MODEL OF MONOGAMY

       LITTLE BIG CATS

       BABY BROCKS

       MALE MIDWIVES WANTED

       STREETWISE YOUNGSTERS

       LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE

       BORN SPOTTY

       THE LONGEST JOURNEY

       ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL

       BORN TO BOX

       JUNIOR KINGS OF THE JUNGLE

       SLOWLY DOES IT

       A LONG AND FRUITFUL LIFE

       A NEW AGE RELATIONSHIP

       A CUCKOO IN THE NEST

       BABIES FROM MARS

       KILLER BABIES

       FURRY DUCKLINGS

       NATURAL BORN SYMBOL

       KEEP READING

       INDEX

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       COPYRIGHT

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

       Tortoise, Galápagos giant

       © Frans Lanting/FLPA

      Nature’s Babies is an unashamed celebration of the fully technicoloured glory of the natural world itself. The seemingly infinite variety of different baby shapes and sizes is of course down to the cleverest and most powerful beast of them all: evolution. What else would have created babies that at one end of the spectrum are impossibly cute, yet at the other end would not look out of place in the most off-the-wall science fiction novels?

      Parenting skills can vary enormously from the non-existent to the lavish. For some animals being born is a rude awakening into a