100 Bizarre Animals

by Mike Unwin

Book Overview

Some animals just look weird. Take the mandrill, whose outrageous face is colored to mimic its genitals, or the star-nosed mole whose nose sprouts 22 fleshy tentacles. Others behave strangely--a mallee fowl builds huge mounds of rotting vegetation in which to incubate its eggs. Some are plain ingenious, such as the fog-basking beetle, which stands on its head to drink from fog on the breeze (the fog condenses on its body and then trickles down...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841623008
• ISBN13: 9781841623009
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.1" x 8.0"