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100 Bizarre Animals (Bradt Travel Guide)
Mike Unwin
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Description for 100 Bizarre Animals (Bradt Travel Guide)
Hardcover. 100 Bizarre Animals Guide - Advice from award-winning wildlife expert on the world's most bizarre species including full-colour descriptions and identification. This guide highlights unusual traits, physical and behavioral adaptations, birdwatching and spotting tips, habitats and reserves, endangered wildlife, conservation and natural history. Series: Bradt Travel Guides (Wildlife Guides). Num Pages: 152 pages, Full-colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 748. Series: Bradt Travel Guides (100 Animals). 152 pages, Full-colour photographs throughout. With full-colour photography throughout, 100 Bizarre Animals celebrates the antics and appearance of the world's wackiest creatures. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WNC. Dimension: 233 x 206 x 20. Weight: 748.
Some animals just look weird. Take the mandrill, whose outrageous face is coloured 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 to its mouth), or the cartwheeling spider which turns itself into a wheel to roll down sand dunes when it needs to make ... Read more
Some animals just look weird. Take the mandrill, whose outrageous face is coloured 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 to its mouth), or the cartwheeling spider which turns itself into a wheel to roll down sand dunes when it needs to make ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bradt Travel Guides
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Series
Bradt Travel Guides (Wildlife Guides)
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781841623009
SKU
V9781841623009
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Mike Unwin
Mike Unwin is an author, editor, photographer and illustrator specialising in natural history. He won the BBC Wildlife/Bradt Travel Guides Travel Writing Competition in 2000, and is now series editor of the Bradt wildlife guides and author of Southern African Wildlife.
Reviews for 100 Bizarre Animals (Bradt Travel Guide)
'It's fun and fascinating, a good browsing book for adults, and older children are likely to love it.' RSPB nature's voice magazine 'A vivid collection of some of the world's most fascinating and unusual species ever to grace the pages of a nature book.' Voice (Ethnic Consumer)