You may be astonished to learn that koi fish can live up to 226 years! Even lobsters, if they stay away from restaurants, can reach the grand old age of 140 years. Best of all, humans are always added to the mix, so you can make comparisons.įor example, in the infographic on maximum speed, we see that while humans can run at approximately 23 mph, peregrine falcons can fly at speeds of up to 200 mph! Cheetahs race at 64 mph and even whales, the slowest on the scale, top out at 16 mph.
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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