Speedy and slow

What has thousands of feet and still cannot move fast?

Which insect might beat you in a foot race? Which plant needs years and years to make a flower? Sailfish race through the oceans and sloths hardly move in their lifetimes.

But these animals, along with some unusual plants, use their speed or slowness to survive in their own special habitats.

In `Speedy and Slow' you will learn how each way of living suits a particular species.