When lunch fights back : wickedly clever animal defenses /

Johnson, Rebecca L.

When lunch fights back : wickedly clever animal defenses / Rebecca L. Johnson. - 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-47) and index.

Slip-sliming away -- Concealed weapons -- Suicide bombers -- Master blasters -- Knock-out punch -- Here¿s blood in your eye -- Of bullies and bait -- Meet my bodyguards.

Presents the various types of defenses mechanisms used by animals, including the bone spikes of the African hairy frog, the deadly poison of the blue-spotted N. taracua termite, and the hammer-like punch of the peacock mantis shrimp.

Ages 9-14.

1467721093 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) 9781467721097 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

2013046646


Animal defenses--Juvenile literature.
Animals--Juvenile literature.

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