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When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses

Johnson, Rebecca L

 
9781467721097: When Lunch Fights Back: Wickedly Clever Animal Defenses
ISBN 10 : 1467721093 ISBN 13 : 9781467721097
Editeur : Millbrook Press (Tm), 2014

Synopsis

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 that's only the beginning. Meet creatures with some of the strangest defenses known to science. How strange? Hagfish that can instantaneously produce oodles of gooey, slippery slime; frogs that poke their own toe bones through their skin to create claws; young birds that shoot streams of stinking poop; and more.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rebecca L. Johnson writes award-winning nonfiction for children and young adults about scientific discoveries and the scientists who make them. She hopes her books will inspire new generations of scientists by introducing readers to some of the remarkable species with whom we share the planet. Learn more at www.rebeccajohnsonbooks.com.

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Éditeur
Millbrook Press (Tm)
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1467721093
ISBN 13 
9781467721097
Reliure
Belle reliure
Nombre de pages
48
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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