A miscellany of fascinating anecdotes, facts and stories about animal life on our planet.

Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate. In this fascinating collection author and film-maker Michael Bright brings us the weird and the wonderful world of animal life on planet Earth.