The Book of Animal Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong

By John Mitchinson and John Lloyd

Book Overview

Join QI's expedition into the animal kingdom to encounter 100 of its most remarkable subjects. Marvel at the elephants that walk on tiptoe, pigs that shine in the dark, and the woodlouse that drinks... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030739493X
• ISBN13: 9780307394934
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 0.9" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Interesting and funny/wierd

If you have read "Everything you think you know is wrong" and liked it, you will def like this one as well. Most of the topics are intriguing and funny. There are a ton of interesting facts and things that i never knew about animals. A must read for people who like useless knowledge.

Funny

My 14 year old daughter just loves to share information from this book. There are a lot of very funny & interesting facts about animals. She's truly enjoying the book!

Great read!

Fantastic buy! I've passed the book on to so many friends and family members already. Everybody's talking about it. I find myself quoting animal facts to strangers. I'm definately a smarter person for having read it.

absorbing!

a book from which i can truly say i gained a wealth of information...whimsically written while maintaining an informational voice...only caveat i can complain of is the authors' consistent failure to provide a simple description of each animal's size...given that some of the animals were previously unknown to me, i would have appreciated the information..

Addictive animal trivia

I defy you to read even a few pages of this little book and not be tempted to yell out to whoever else is in the house: "Did you know that ...?" The other person will laugh and say "You made that up!" This is a perfect book for people who love animals and/or arcane bits of trivia. It is a bestiary of 100 animals -- some common, some you've probably never heard of -- all with secrets you would never guess. You'll never look at your dog the same way; did you know that Labrador retrievers can correctly identify lung cancer in humans 99 percent of the time... just by smelling their breath? Each animal gets two or three pages, with a couple of black and white illustrations. Organized in alphabetical order, you won't want to stop until you get to the lowly, fascinating worm. Did you know that ribbon worms will eat their own bodies if their food supply runs out? They can eat up to 95 percent of themselves and still survive. No, I didn't make that up. John Lloyd and John Mitchinson also wrote The Book of General Ignorance.