About the Author

Matt Walker is one of the world's leading science journalists, being a senior editor at New Scientist, a magazine which has a global readership of over 750,000 people. He joined the magazine in 1999, and has also lectured at New Scientist conferences, as well as at the Royal Institution.

Reviews

...is the sort of book you might find in David Attenborough's downstairs lavatory. It specialises in facts you never knew you wished to know about animals. - Sunday TIMESJust about everything Walker knows about the entire animal creation is gross, disgusting or grotesque - and often pretty funny. - The Spectator