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Frog with Self-Cleaning Feet: And Other Extraordinary Tales from the Animal World [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2020
  • Kirjastus: Biteback Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1785905236
  • ISBN-13: 9781785905230
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2020
  • Kirjastus: Biteback Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 1785905236
  • ISBN-13: 9781785905230
Teised raamatud teemal:
Wild animals do the most extraordinary things. Some are exceptionally bright, use tools and solve complex problems. Others are devious: they cheat, steal and run protection rackets. There are animals with enormous appetites and those that self-medicate.

Then we come across the extreme travellers: the highest flyers, the deepest divers and the fastest runners. But which animal is the most venomous, and which the most dangerous? Which has the loudest voice, the longest tongue, the biggest eyes or the most powerful bite? How do animals tell the time? How did the zebra get those stripes? And what is the most mysterious animal on Earth?

The Frog with Self-cleaning Feet is a miscellany of fascinating animal anecdotes, facts and figures. The weird, the wonderful and the downright unbelievable of the animal world - you couldn't make it up!
Introduction ix
What's in a (scientific) name?
1(4)
Smart animals
5(2)
Tool users
7(5)
Cunning bugs
12(1)
The cheats
13(4)
The protection racket
17(1)
Tongues
18(3)
Evolving together
21(2)
Feeding time
23(5)
Bird feeders
28(2)
World's largest birds
30(3)
Giant reptiles and amphibians
33(2)
Mighty bite
35(3)
World's largest land mammals
38(3)
Whale of an appetite
41(7)
Seafood connoisseurs
48(4)
Dolphins and fishermen
52(3)
Peculiar foods
55(4)
Grub's up!
59(3)
Insect farmers
62(2)
Living together
64(2)
A squirt of water
66(2)
Integrated weapons systems
68(3)
Bat attack
71(2)
Eyes
73(5)
Telling the time
78(1)
Loud voices
78(7)
The (not so) silent world
85(5)
Sea monsters
90(4)
River monsters
94(1)
World's most venomous animals
95(5)
Bad to eat
100(6)
Poisonous and venomous
106(2)
Allergic to lorises
108(1)
Natural medicines
109(3)
Chemical warfare
112(2)
Chemically controlled ants
114(2)
Real zombies
116(3)
Catnaps
119(2)
The big sleep
121(3)
Hot and cold, wet and dry
124(5)
Keep off my patch!
129(2)
Lost babies
131(1)
Really wild courtship
132(14)
Odd couples
146(2)
Fiddler in the mud
148(2)
Bringing up baby
150(7)
Alarm
157(3)
The great escape
160(9)
Bee power
169(1)
Insect record-breakers
170(6)
Back from the brink
176(1)
The world's smallest animals
177(2)
Mystery solved?
179(1)
The world's most mysterious animals
180(1)
Getting about
181(5)
Animal athletes
186(5)
Deepest divers
191(3)
Epic journeys
194(15)
Record-breaking birds
209(3)
Flight details
212(3)
Magnetic sense
215(2)
Pure white
217(4)
Individuals
221(1)
Left-and right-handed
222(2)
The world's oldest animals
224(5)
Short-lived
229(2)
Fashionistas and social clubs
231(3)
Urban living
234(7)
Home sweet home
241(5)
Almost human (1)
246(4)
Unexpected predators
250(1)
Almost human (2)
251(4)
Dolphins to the rescue
255(3)
Lions to the rescue
258(1)
Humpback to the rescue
259(1)
What on earth?
260(6)
Not what's on the tin
266(3)
The woodlouse
269(1)
Animal collective nouns
270(12)
New species
282(5)
Afterword 287(2)
About the author 289
Michael Bright was an executive producer with the BBC's world-renowned Natural History Unit. He is the author of over a hundred books on wildlife, travel and conservation, including Sharks, Wild Caribbean and Africa with David Attenborough. He is the recipient of many international radio and television awards, including the prestigious Prix Italia.