Title That bull is seeing red! : science's biggest mistakes about animals and plants / by Christine Zuchora-Walske.

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Minneapolis : Lerner Publications Company, [2015]

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Description	1 online resource (32 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
	data file rda
Series	Science Gets It Wrong
	Science Gets It Wrong.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cats always land on their feet, unharmed -- Life can grow from nonliving matter -- Bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly -- Blooming sunflowers track the sun -- Birds reject their human-scented babies -- Plants grow by eating soil -- Bats are blind -- Some plants eat humans -- Lemmings are suicidal -- The color red enrages bulls -- Plants carry signs of their value -- Goldfish have a three-second memory.
Audience	9-12.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Do bulls get angry when they see the color red' Do plants grow by snacking on soil' Are bats blind' At one time, science supported wild notions like these! But later studies proved these ideas were nonsense. Discover science's biggest mistakes and oddest assumptions about plants and animals, and see how scientific thought changed over time.
Subject	Animals -- Juvenile literature.
	Plants -- Juvenile literature.
	Errors, Scientific -- Juvenile literature.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Concepts -- General.
	JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature -- General.
	Animals. (OCoLC)fst00809468
	Errors, Scientific. (OCoLC)fst00915044
	Plants. (OCoLC)fst01065823
Genre/Form	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Other Form:	Print version: Zuchora-Walske, Christine That Bull Is Seeing Red! : Science's Biggest Mistakes about Animals and Plants Minneapolis : Lerner Publishing Group,c2014 9781467736602
ISBN	9781467747370 (electronic bk.)
	1467747378 (electronic bk.)
	132201650X (electronic bk.)
	9781322016504 (electronic bk.)
	9781541508651 (electronic bk.)
	1541508653 (electronic bk.)
Music No.	EB00505728 Recorded Books

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