When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

by Rebecca L. Johnson

Book Overview

The octopus spies a nice, tasty mantis shrimp. It swims over for a closer look at the small creature. Then--WHAM --the mantis shrimp strikes a nasty blow with its hammer-like forelimb. The octopus shrinks back, defeated. That wasn't such an easy meal after all . . .

In nature, good defenses can mean the difference between surviving a predator's attack and becoming its lunch. Some animals rely on sharp teeth and claws or camouflage. But...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467721093
• ISBN13: 9781467721097
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.0" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9