| Description |
191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
A is for animals -- Aardvark and Aardwolf -- Addra and Addax -- Aestivation and hibernation -- Ai -- Albatross -- Ambrosia Beetle -- Ancestors -- Angler Fish -- Ants and antagonists -- Armadillos -- Aye-Aye -- Banana alarm -- Bandicoots -- Barnacle glue -- Basilisk -- Bats -- Beavers -- Bees, love of -- Bird-eating Spider -- Bird kill -- Bird-song -- Bird strikes -- Bombardier and Blister Beetles -- Camouflage -- Carpenter Bee, courtship of -- Cat-Bird -- Cats -- Chinchilla -- Choir Birds -- Civet, water -- Cloth of Gold -- Cockroaches -- Cricket, song of -- Devil's Flowers -- Diadem -- Difference, how to tell -- Dik-Dik -- Dingleberries and Discus Fish -- Distraction displays -- Dogs -- Domestic animals -- Doodlebug trap -- Dry Crabs -- Duckmole -- Earwigs -- Echo-location -- Eggs -- Electric Fish -- Elephants -- Emu war -- Excretion -- Extinction! -- Falconry -- Farmers -- Feast of Life -- Fighting animals -- Fire-Belly Toad -- Fleas, big and little fleas -- Fluorescent Scorpion -- Food for thought -- Folklore -- Frog-Fish -- Frogs and toads -- Gar, armoured -- Gecko -- Genet -- Giant Squid -- Gila -- Giraffe -- Grave Fauna -- Gravity sensing -- Gopher -- Gray's Paradox -- Green polar bears -- Grotto of Stars -- Growth rate -- Hamsters, short and hectic history of -- Hanuman -- Hatchet, eyes of -- Hemigale diamonds -- Hoatzin -- Honey Ants -- Honey guide -- Hoppers -- Hornbills, orgy of -- Horns -- Hot and cold -- Howlers Hyrax -- Iguanas -- Incubator Bird -- Interpreters -- Irruptions -- Island Parables -- Jackal, days of -- Jaguarundis -- Jellies, giant -- John Dory -- Jumbo -- Jerboas, jumping -- Kangaroos -- Kihikihi -- King Snakes -- Koalas, stomach for -- Komodo Dragons -- Ladybird, Ladybird -- Law breakers -- Leaking Fish, problem of -- Leeches -- Lemmings -- Lion's share -- Locomotion -- Loud silence -- Macaques, the amazing -- Mantis -- Marsupial experiment -- Medicines, Eggs of Mhorr-and other -- Medina, voyage of -- Migrations -- Military aid -- Missing, believed extinct -- Moloch, the horrible -- Mouth breeding -- Narwhal, horn of -- Nautilus, shell of -- Needlefish -- Nematodes -- Newts -- Octopus -- Oil-Birds -- Ojam -- Olm -- Opossums -- Ostrich trick -- Passenger Pigeons -- Pets -- Piddock tunnels -- Pigeon Post and Yak Express -- Pigs, in praise of -- Play -- Poison Paradox -- Potto -- Pudu -- Quagga -- Queen Victoria's Butterfly -- Quetzal -- Quill Pig -- Quokka -- Rats! -- Regent's bower -- Remora-the retriever fish -- Roadrunners -- Safety in numbers -- Searchlight Squid -- See-through animals -- Sex changes -- Sharks -- Silverfish -- Sleep and dreams...and snoring -- Spiders' webs -- Skink -- Squeaking competition -- Stormy Petrel -- Swimmers -- Symbiosis -- Synchronized Cicadas -- Tardigrades -- Thunderbirds -- Thylacine -- Torrent Ducks -- Tortoise and Turtle snatch -- Tyger, Tyger -- Underground city -- Upside-down Fish -- Venom -- Vestigial organs -- Vicuna, vogue for -- Vision -- Volcano Rabbit -- Walrus -- Weavers and tailors -- Weevil Memorial -- Z is for life -- Zoos -- Zyzzyx-the last word. |
| Subject |
Animals -- Dictionaries.
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| Added Author |
Marten, Michael, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0670179159 paperback $12.95 |
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