Creatures of the Night

A spectacular collection of animals who are at home in the dark.

Creatures of the Night features more than a dozen extraordinary animals that live in the dark. These are mammals, birds, insects and spiders whose unique physical features help them to survive in the pitch-black darkness of jungles, fields and in the air.

The animals featured include:

Aye-aye – A lifetime spent in rain forest trees where they curl up to sleep during the day

Common Glow-worm – Bioluminescent beetle that doesn’t look like a beetle

Fungi – More closely related to animals than plants, fungi expand (rather than grow) over a damp night

Kinkajou – Night-roaming cousin of raccoons

Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula – Hunts at night, capturing insects, frogs, lizards and mice

Net-casting spider – A huge pair of forward-facing eyes help it to see at night

Railroad worm – The only animal that is naturally bioluminescent in the red spectrum

Vampire bat – Day-sleepers that hunt during the darkest part of the night.

Intricately drawn artworks give accurate details of each animal’s anatomy and behavior, and stunning photographs show how each animal hunts.