![]() ![]() ![]() Many such treasures fill this book, teaching us about relative weights and speeds of animals which animals can survive the most extreme conditions which are the most dangerous the sounds they make how far they travel in search of food, mates, or habitat and so on. ![]() They are, he observes “treasures, complex and witty, rich with meaning.” Visual depictions help us manage all that information in a succinct, artistically pleasing, and informative way. As Edward Tufte, Yale professor emeritus and pioneer in the field of data visualization, points out in his book Envisioning Information, the world is complex and multidimensional, and we have an enormous accumulation of material about it. This wonderful book by award-winning writer/illustrator Steve Jenkins presents facts and figures about animals in a visual manner, in the form of graphs, symbols, and illustrations. ![]()
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