num_pages: 80
description: (From inside dust jacket)For centuries people have been fascinated by strange animals. Travellers' tales of creatures they had glimpsed were enlarged and embroidered until it was regarded as fact that giants dragons sea-serpents mermaids and unicorns really did inhabit the unknown parts of the world. David Attenborough whose searches for rare animals have taken him to many distant lands looks at some of these stories and legends. Bones of giants are now known to be the remains of monsters that died out millions of years ago but other giant creatures really did exist until quite recent times. St. George's dragon was thought to be legend yet the giant lizard of Komodo found only in the twentieth century is very similar to story-book dragons. Sea-serpent stories existed for thousands of years and in this century we have made many surprising discoveries about life in the sea. Is there a Loch Ness Monster? Does the yeti live in the Himalayan mountains? Do other giant creatures still remain to be discovered? FABULOUS ANIMALS is fully illustrated and many of the pictures come from early books of natural history. It is based on the BBC TV children's programme series.
language: English
title: David Attenborough's Fabulous Animals
publisher: British Broadcasting Corporation