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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
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The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong Features
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ISBN13: 9780307394934
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Additional The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong Information
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Fast on the heels of the New York Times bestseller The Book of General Ignorance comes The Book of Animal Ignorance, a fun, fact-filled bestiary that is sure to delight animal lovers everywhere. Arranged alphabetically from aardvark to worm, here are one hundred of the most interesting members of the animal kingdom explained, dissected, and illustrated, with the trademark wit and wisdom of John Lloyd and John Mitchinson.
Did you know, for instance, that
• when a young albatross takes wing, it may stay aloft for ten years
• vampire bat saliva—unsurprisingly, when you think about it—is the source of the world’s most powerful blood thinning drug, appropriately called draculin
• bombardier beetles fire a boiling chemical spray out of their rears at 300 pulses per second
• a bald eagle’s feathers weigh twice as much as its bones
• a giant tortoise recently died at the documented age of 255
• octopuses are dexterous enough to unscrew tops from jars
• spider silk is so light that a strand long enough to circle the world would weigh as much as a bar of soap?
So meet the water bears that can live in suspension for hundreds of years, the parasite carried by your cat that makes men grumpy and women promiscuous, and the woodlouse that drinks through its bottom. Marvel at elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and woodpeckers that have ears on the ends of their tongues.
If you still think a pangolin is a musical instrument, that hyenas are dogs, or that sheep are pointless and stupid, The Book of Animal Ignorance has arrived just in time.
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What Customers Say About The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong:
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This was a very interesting and fun read. If you like animals you will enjoy this book. Very educational. Enjoy.
It shows how intelligent animals are, how capable they are and the strange and wondrous adaptations they have made. I gave this book as a gift to a child and he loved it. He loves animals, all animals, so I knew this would be a winner with him. It's filled with illustrations and is entertaining for children and adults. The focus tends to be on the bizarre but makes one appreciate animals for being so magnificent in unique ways.
I like the book if only for the reason that I'm now aware that there are ants in Brunei whose role in the colony extends to exploding their own heads in order to spread a gooey mess to entangle intruders. Of course the relative size of the animal and human penis rates a mention but never fear it's all done in excellent style. It's not War and Peace but a bit of fun and yet another reminder that truth is stranger than fiction.
In this book readers find that it is humans who are ignorant, not animals. In fact, some show amazing, if inexplicable, talents. Odd, peculiar, and occasionally perverse habits are revealed in a light-hearted easy-to-read alpabetical presentation from aardvark to zebra.
If you have read "Everything you think you know is wrong" and liked it, you will def like this one as well. Most of the topics are intriguing and funny. There are a ton of interesting facts and things that i never knew about animals. A must read for people who like useless knowledge.
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