aturalist and adventurer Quinton Coetzee is not only familiar as a TV presenter on wildlife programmes, but internationally renowned for his conference presentations that the bush has never left him. His new book answers intriguing questions that Coetzee has been asked in the bush, from whether hippos eat meat to why you should never pick up a tortoise. It’s split into a number of main sections – mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish, arthropods, and plants – as well as shorter sections on his pick of preferred collective names for animals (a flamboyance of flamingos, for instance) and pointers on animals that can be difficult to tell apart.
