Sophie Corrigan - Animal good cimborák

"Haha, people! Don't think that only you can have friends! We also have friends who we can always count on. For example, when you have to pick the ticks off the other's back, or tell the lion to eat you for dinner, for example , to catch what's for lunch. From this book, you can get to know the good animal friends!"

Richly illustrated with funny drawings, this book presents 35 examples of relationships between different animal species, including close and distant friendships, as well as parasitism.
Hermit herons, for example, sometimes ride water buffalo and, while cleaning their hides, warn them of impending danger.
The golden jackal often stalks a lone tiger, only to occasionally alert its "friend" when it spots a prey animal. The tiger drops its prey, and after it finishes eating, passes the rest to the jackal.
The author and illustrator devoted two pairs of pages to each relationship. On the first page, he shows what fun things we can think about animals if we endow them with human characteristics, and then on the next couple of pages, disproving most of our ideas, he presents no less interesting facts about what the relationship between animals really is.

This lovely book is a great supplementary read for children when they are learning about interactions between populations (mutualism, commensalism and parasitism) in biology class.