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100 Bizarre Animals Mike Unwin

100 Bizarre Animals By Mike Unwin

100 Bizarre Animals by Mike Unwin


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Summary

100 Bizarre Animals Guide - Advice from award-winning wildlife expert on the world's most bizarre species including full-colour descriptions and identification. This guide highlights unusual traits, physical and behavioral adaptations, birdwatching and spotting tips, habitats and reserves, endangered wildlife, conservation and natural history.

100 Bizarre Animals Summary

100 Bizarre Animals by Mike Unwin

Some animals just look weird. Take the mandrill, whose outrageous face is coloured to mimic its genitals, or the star-nosed mole whose nose sprouts 22 fleshy tentacles. Others behave strangely - a mallee fowl builds huge mounds of rotting vegetation in which to incubate its eggs. Some are plain ingenious, such as the fog-basking beetle which stands on its head to drink from fog on the breeze (the fog condenses on its body and then trickles down to its mouth), or the cartwheeling spider which turns itself into a wheel to roll down sand dunes when it needs to make a sharp exit. Then there's the horned toad, which squirts blood from its eyes at attackers and the African egg-eating snake which has to dislocate its jaw to eat an egg three times bigger than its head. With glorious - and sometimes grotesque - full-colour photography throughout, 100 Bizarre Animals celebrates the antics and appearance of the world's wackiest creatures.

100 Bizarre Animals Reviews

'It's fun and fascinating, a good browsing book for adults, and older children are likely to love it.' RSPB nature's voice magazine 'A vivid collection of some of the world's most fascinating and unusual species ever to grace the pages of a nature book.' Voice (Ethnic Consumer)

About Mike Unwin

Mike Unwin is an author, editor, photographer and illustrator specialising in natural history. He won the BBC Wildlife/Bradt Travel Guides Travel Writing Competition in 2000, and is now series editor of the Bradt wildlife guides and author of Southern African Wildlife.

Table of Contents

Foreword The call of the weird 1 GETTING AROUND 2 GRABBING A BITE 3 STAYING ALIVE 4 SHOWING OFF 5 PASSING IT ON 6 GETTING ALONG Conservation contacts Acknowledgements Index

Additional information

GOR005169533
9781841623009
1841623008
100 Bizarre Animals by Mike Unwin
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bradt Travel Guides
20100820
152
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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