The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet
. . . And Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World
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2.7 • 3 Ratings
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- $1.99
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- $1.99
Publisher Description
Did you know that an ostrich egg can make an omelet for ten people? How about that crocodiles have the world’s most powerful bite, yet their mouths can be held shut by a man’s bare hands? Or that box jellyfish are the most venomous creature in the world, and they’re almost impossible to see?
Wild animals do the most extraordinary, and sometimes frightening, things. Some are exceptionally bright, using tools and even treating themselves with medicinal plants. Others are devious, using chemical warfare and theft to get what they want. Then there are slackers, like the sloth, which only moves up to 125 feet a day, and the overachievers like the Arctic tern, which migrates over forty-four thousand miles every year! Discover:
• The squid with eyes as big as dinner plates
• The termite assassin bug
• The largest rodent you hope to never find in your cupboard
• And the frog with self-cleaning feet!
If you’ve ever wanted to know why a zebra has stripes, or which animal is the most dangerous, has the loudest voice, boasts the longest tongue, or is the most mysterious, The Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet is here to reveal the curiosities of nature. Packed full of entertaining surprises and unusual information, you may not believe your tiny, human-sized eyes.
Customer Reviews
Not really a book…
This is not really a book… Just a collection of short bits and pieces of information, without any sound organization, on strangeness of the animal world, which we still don’t quite yet understand. You pretty much forget what you read few days later (except probably for few really wierd things about the animal and plant world that made an impression on you), and why in the world there is so much Latin in the book? I can’t believe the author thiught it would be a good idea…Anyway - couldn’t get passed first few chapters. Having some pictures may have helped to get through, but there is none. Unless you are training for some sort of trivia and have memory of an elephant, I cannot recommend this book for a casual reader - there are so many other interesting and well-written books about animal kingdom you can get nowadays, which are so much better and more engaging than this one.