| Description |
xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-260) |
| Contents |
You Absolutely Must Get Laid -- You Can't Find a Babysitter -- You Need a Place to Crash -- You Live in a Crummy Neighborhood -- Turns Out Getting Eaten Is Bad for Survival -- It Turns Out Not Eating Is Also Bad for Survival -- You Can't Let Them Get Away That Easily, Can You?. |
| Summary |
Profiles animals that have adapted to solve some of nature's more perplexing problems of everyday life, from the pangolin's keratinized armor and the anglerfish's mating habits to the axolotl's regenerative limbs. |
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"On a barren seafloor, the pearlfish swims into the safety of a sea cucumber's anus. To find a meal, the female bolas spider releases pheromones that mimic a female moth, luring male moths into her sticky lasso web. The Glyptapanteles wasp injects a caterpillar with her young, which feed on the victim, erupt out of it, then mind-control the poor (and somehow still living) schmuck into protecting them from predators. These are among the curious critters of The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar, a jaunt through evolution's most unbelievable, most ingenious solutions to the problems of everyday life, from trying to get laid to finding food. Join Wired science writer Matt Simon as he introduces you to the creatures that have it figured out, the ones that joust with their mustaches or choke sharks to death with snot, all in a wild struggle to survive and, of course, find true love."--Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Animals -- Adaptation.
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Predation (Biology)
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Parasitism.
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Animals -- Adaptation.
(OCoLC)fst00809471
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Parasitism. (OCoLC)fst01053180
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Predation (Biology) (OCoLC)fst01074989
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| Added Author |
Stankovic, Vladimir (Illustrator), illustrator.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Simon, Matt. Wasp that brainwashed the caterpillar. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2016 9780698411258 (DLC) 2016029575 |
| ISBN |
9780143128687 |
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014312868X |
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