Attacks! Fangs! Claws! From the smallest bee to the biggest bear, people's accidental encounters with wildlife are both frightening and strangely fascinating. In Close Encounters of the Wild Kind, readers learn of actual human-wildlife encounters, creature information, survival strategies, and attack statistics. Sometimes gruesome. Often bloody. Encounters occur on land, sea, and air. True survivor stories and quotes show the reality of sharing our world with some of Earth's most cunning and powerful species. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.