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Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet ... and Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World

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ISBN-10: 1626360758

ISBN-13: 9781626360754

Edition: N/A

Authors: Michael Bright

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Did you know that an ostrich egg can make an omelet for ten people? How about that crocodiles have the world’s most powerful bite, yet their mouths can be held shut by a man’s bare hands? Or that box jellyfish are the most venomous creature in the world, and they’re almost impossible to see?Wild animals do the most extraordinary, and sometimes frightening, things. Some are exceptionally bright, using tools and even treating themselves with medicinal plants. Others are devious, using chemical warfare and theft to get what they want. Then there are slackers, like the sloth, which only moves up to 125 feet a day, and the overachievers like the Arctic tern, which migrates over forty-four…    
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Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/6/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Michael Bright is the author of over 90 books on natural history, natural sciences, conservation and the environment, and a former executive producer for various departments at the BBC, including for the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol.

Introduction
What's in a (scientific) name?
Smart animals
Tool users
Cunning bugs
The cheats
The protection racket
Tongues
Evolving together
Feeding time
Bird feeders
World's largest birds
Giant reptiles and amphibians
Mighty bite
World's largest land mammals
Whale of an appetite
Seafood connoisseurs
Dolphins and fishermen
Peculiar foods
Grub's up!
Insect farmers
Living together
A squirt of water
Integrated weapons systems
Bat attack
Eyes
Telling the time
Loud voices
The (not so) silent world
Sea monsters
River monsters
World's most venomous animals
Bad to eat
Poisonous and venomous
Allergic to lorises
Natural medicines
Chemical warfare
Chemically controlled ants
Real zombies
Catnaps
The big sleep
Hot and cold, wet and dry
Keep off my patch!
Lost babies
Really wild courtship
Odd couples
Fiddler in the mud
Bringing up baby
Alarm
The great escape
Bee power
Insect record-breakers
Back from the brink
The world's smallest animals
Mystery solved?
The world's most mysterious animals
Getting about
Animal athletes
Deepest divers
Epic journeys
Record-breaking birds
Flight details
Magnetic sense
Pure white
Individuals
Left- and right-handed
The world's oldest animals
Short-lived
Fashionistas and social clubs
Urban living
Home sweet home
Almost human (1)
Unexpected predators
Almost human (2)
Dolphins to the rescue
Lions to the rescue
Humpback to the rescue
What on earth?
Not what's on the tin
The woodlouse
Animal collective nouns
New species
Afterword