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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that the blue dragon sea slug is the length of a paperclip but can store deadly jellyfish venom in its body for use against predators? Or that the golden poison dart frog is only an inch long, but its skin holds enough poison to kill ten people? These tiny terrors don't have to be big to be deadly!"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
©2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
How Not To Get Eaten is a fun introduction to the ingenious antipredator strategies in the natural world. Discover how meerkats post sentries to guard their homes and possums play dead, to how mimic octopuses change their shape and bombardier beetles unleash a chemical weapon attack. Perfect for children aged 7-9, the book is filled with intriguing illustrations and spectacular photographs of the amazing, obscure, and incredibly strange. You'll never...
29) Back off, buddy!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the dangerous and strange defense mechanisms of lizards, beetles, frogs, squid, and other animals. Includes large photographs and relevant information about each animal presented"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For more than forty-five years, the National Wildlife Federation has been dazzling families with amazing images and stories. Get ready for some supersonic fun that will make you say OUCH! Discover talon strength in birds of prey, sharp claws in lions and pumas, chewing mouthparts in insects, venom in snakes, and toxins in frogs. More? You want more? How about skunks that eat bees, stinging cells in jellyfish, meerkats that eat scorpions, caterpillars...
35) Backyard insects
Author
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs discuss common garden insects and their protective appearence which includes camouflage, warning colors, copycat characteristics, and scary characteristics.
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