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The world's most pointless animals - or are they? / [Philip Bunting].

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Mission Viejo, CA : Happy Yak, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2021Description: 80 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780711262416
  • 0711262411
  • 9780711262393
  • 071126239X
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Contents:
Introduction -- Jellyfish -- Quokka -- Pigeon -- Myotonic goat -- Leech -- Dung beetle -- Blobfish -- Sun bear -- Red-lipped batfish -- Cicada -- Goldfish -- Stick insect -- Earthworm -- Naked mole-rat -- Inca tern -- Groundhog -- Sea urchin -- Koala -- Platypus -- Ostrich -- Inland taipan -- Guinea pig -- Mayfly -- Striped skunk -- Giant anteater -- Gloster canary -- Aye-aye -- Three-toed sloth -- Daddy longlegs -- Silkie chicken -- Pufferfish -- Giant panda -- Giraffe weevil -- Pink fairy armadillo -- Parrotfish -- Sugar glider -- Capuchin monkey -- Tufted deer -- Treehopper -- Coconut crab -- Leafy seadragon -- Gentoo penguin -- Leafcutter ant -- Giraffe -- Narwahl -- Chinchilla -- Hummingbird hawk-moth -- Zooplankton -- Dumbo octopus -- Elephant shrew -- Mosquito -- Aardvark -- Garden snail -- Golden poison frog -- Kiwi -- Axolotl -- In closing.
Summary: "The natural world is filled with countless weird, wild, and wonderful creatures, of all shapes and species. Meet the world's slowest animal. Learn why one animal eats coral. And discover one of the most toxic creatures on the planet!" -- Back cover.Summary: The natural world is filled with countless weird, wild, and wonderful creatures, of all shapes and sizes.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 590 B942 Available 33111010640452
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 590 B942 Available 33111010746242
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The World's Most Pointless Animals is a witty, quirky, colorfully-illustrated book featuring fascinating facts about some very silly animals...who we find are perhaps not so pointless after all.



From familiar animals like giraffes (who don't have any vocal cords) through to those that surely should not even exist, such as the pink fairy armadillo (absurdly huge front claws, super tough protective shell in baby pink, particularly susceptible to stress), our planet is full of some pretty weird and wonderful animals . For example: Koalas spend up to 18 hours a day asleep! Pandas are born bright pink, deaf, and blind. Dumbo octopuses flap their big fin-like ears to move around. A Narwhal's tusk grows through its upper lip--ouch!

With hilarious text throughout and bright, contemporary illustrations , this guide to absurdly awesome animals contains funny labelled diagrams and some excellent made-up Latin names (n.b. the jellyfish's scientific name is not actually wibblious wobblious ouchii).



Carrying an important message of celebrating diversity and differences , The World's Most Pointless Animals inspires a drive to conserve our amazing planet and the creatures we're lucky enough to share it with.



Quirky Creatures is a series dedicated to seeking out the weird and wonderful denizens of the natural world and explaining why they are so strange, from the ridiculous to the truly terrifying. Also available in this series is The World's Most Ridiculous Animals and The World's Most Atrocious Animals.

Includes index.

Title has the word "wonderful" crossed out and replaced by "pointless".

"The natural world is filled with countless weird, wild, and wonderful creatures, of all shapes and species. Meet the world's slowest animal. Learn why one animal eats coral. And discover one of the most toxic creatures on the planet!" -- Back cover.

The natural world is filled with countless weird, wild, and wonderful creatures, of all shapes and sizes.

Introduction -- Jellyfish -- Quokka -- Pigeon -- Myotonic goat -- Leech -- Dung beetle -- Blobfish -- Sun bear -- Red-lipped batfish -- Cicada -- Goldfish -- Stick insect -- Earthworm -- Naked mole-rat -- Inca tern -- Groundhog -- Sea urchin -- Koala -- Platypus -- Ostrich -- Inland taipan -- Guinea pig -- Mayfly -- Striped skunk -- Giant anteater -- Gloster canary -- Aye-aye -- Three-toed sloth -- Daddy longlegs -- Silkie chicken -- Pufferfish -- Giant panda -- Giraffe weevil -- Pink fairy armadillo -- Parrotfish -- Sugar glider -- Capuchin monkey -- Tufted deer -- Treehopper -- Coconut crab -- Leafy seadragon -- Gentoo penguin -- Leafcutter ant -- Giraffe -- Narwahl -- Chinchilla -- Hummingbird hawk-moth -- Zooplankton -- Dumbo octopus -- Elephant shrew -- Mosquito -- Aardvark -- Garden snail -- Golden poison frog -- Kiwi -- Axolotl -- In closing.

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