Life is everywhere on Earth. Communities of organisms living in arctic regions and deserts, deep in the oceans and above the clouds, in forests and plains, and even on the barren slopes of volcanic basalt have learned to cooperate in order to survive. Adaptation to different habitats sometimes gave rise to extraordinary creatures: walking fish, flying snakes, flightless birds, cannibalistic tadpoles.
The Living Planet is the second volume in David Attenborough's groundbreaking film series and book trilogy, Life After Earth. The new, revised edition, richly illustrated and supplemented with the latest results of ecology and biology, also talks about the burning questions of our time: climate change, environmental pollution, mass extinctions.
"The giant shark grows to a length of eight meters and a weight of up to four tons, it can pass a thousand tons of water through its filters in a single hour. It moves at a maximum speed of five kilometers, that is, so slowly that those who meet one specimen think it is lazing on the sunlit surface, whereas it is swimming at full speed and eagerly feeding."