Smarties Beautiful Beasties Author:Mike Ashley From the top of the tallest mountain to the bottom of the deepest ocean Smarties Beautiful Beasties contains a great menagerie of the fastest, the noisiest, the smelliest, the most dangerous, the hairiest...and the most peculiar creatures in the animal kingdom. Catch a glimpse of killer frogs and exploding hedgehogs. Discover a cat that can swim... more » faster than an Olympic athlete, and size up the biggest pair of feet you've ever seen. Did you know? The Venezuelan skunk frog is the smelliest creature in the world; 300 people really were eaten alive by piranha fish in 1981, when their boat capsized; A tiger can swim nine times faster than the Olympic record holder; There's even a seven-tonne baby that can swallow a swimming pool in one gulp, in this colourful, fact-filled stampede through our animal world.« less