Description Planning Intent Even without delving into sociobiology, there's no better place than a zoo to teach children to understand and love nature. But if you want to teach them even more, you should tell them about what's happening "inside" animals after a zoo visit. Then children can truly understand the environments, food, and habits that animals prefer. "When you know, you love." These are the words of zoologist Professor Choi Jae-cheon, who believed that understanding animals leads to loving them. This book puts that philosophy into practice. By explaining animal ecology and classification in an easy and friendly way, it helps children feel as if they are looking inside animals themselves. Through this Mysterious Journey Inside Animals' Bodies, we hope to help children develop a desire to cherish and protect nature, and to provide a space where they can learn wisdom from the natural world. Why take a journey inside animals' bodies? To find out how a car can vroom and zoom around, you take it apart and look inside. To find out how animals can wriggle and dash about, do you take them apart too? Ouch, that would be a problem — but this book has the answer! We don't need to actually dissect animals ourselves. Doctors and scientists have already done that countless times throughout history. For hundreds, even thousands of years, people have examined the insides of animals in great detail. Why? ♥ To survive by eating Which animal is good to hunt for food? Which part tastes the best? Which part might cause an unpleasant human's stomach to hurt? ♥ To understand nature How can animals move and stay alive? How did animals evolve? How are animals similar to or different from one another? People wanted to know! ♥ To understand the universe How did life first begin? What kinds of life might exist beyond Earth? Human brains are curious enough to want to understand the whole universe—so why are sheep less clever than people? ♥ For the animals themselves When an animal is sick, what exactly is wrong inside its body? ♥ For people To save human lives through surgery or to develop new medicines, countless experiments are necessary—but we can't experiment on people. So, apologetically, we ask animals like mice to help instead. To do that, we need to understand animals' bodies well. Now, people have learned an enormous amount about all kinds of animals. How? Of course, thanks to careful, scientific study and research of their insides. But how do you examine something you can't even see? Mostly by dissecting animals that have already died. Rest assured, not a single animal was harmed in the making of this book. No animal was troubled in the slightest, nor given a single frightening glance. Everything we wanted to know was already beautifully written down in wonderful books.